Dr Louise Crockett
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
I completed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Strathclyde, and joined the University staff in 2007 as a Research Fellow. I subsequently worked as a Teaching Fellow / Senior Teaching Fellow, before switching to Senior Lecturer in 2025. I work within the Strathclyde Software Defined Radio (StrathSDR) research group, where I lead a small team of staff / PhD researchers, and engage in industry-facing projects.
Key areas I'm involved in are the hardware implementation of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) systems, primarily for wireless communications applications, and Software Defined Radio (SDR). I focus on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), System on Chip (SoC) devices and related technologies, and the design tools and methods that support them. Working in a field of direct relevance to industry really appeals to me.
In my teaching, I deliver classes on Hardware Description Language (HDL) design, Simulink-based design, and FPGAs, focusing on practical skills that will equip graduates for roles in industry. I also generate training materials for the wider academic community (and beyond), and I have co-authored several books on my areas of interest, the most recent of which is "Software Defined Radio with Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC" (published 2023).
Prize And Awards
- Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 8/10/2026
- Best Student Paper Award
- Recipient
- 29/5/2018
Publications
- Intent-preserving FPGA-SoC integration using a design-time metadata intermediate representation
- McLaughlin Lewis, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W
- IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) (2026)
- Performance evaluation of wireless clock synchronization methods under realistic channel impairments
- Harris Finlay, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W
- 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control, and Communication (ISPCS) 2026 IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control, & Communication (ISPCS) IEEE International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication, ISPCS (2026)
- Time-of-Arrival estimation for OFDM-based terrestrial time dissemination
- Gillan Euan, Crockett Louise, Stewart Robert
- 2026 IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control, & Communication (ISPCS) (2026)
- A reconfigurable RFSoC-based spectrum sensing platform using a polyphase channeliser and distributed publisher-subscriber framework
- McTaggart Blair, MacLellan Andrew, Atimati Ehinomen Elizabeth, Brown Lewis, Nyasulu Tawachi, Crockett Louise, Crawford David H, Stewart Robert
- ICC 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Communications IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2026 ICC 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Communications (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC59461.2026.11586939
- Learning the Spikes
- Borrill Thomas, Crockett Louise, Di Caterina Gaetano, Thomas Kevin, Morrison Andrew
- SPIE Sensors + Imaging 2026 (2026)
- UVM: Neuron Verification
- Borrill Thomas, Crockett Louise, Di Caterina Gaetano, Thomas Kevin, Hutcheon Graham
- SPIE Sensors + Imaging 2026 (2026)
Teaching
I'm currently teaching:
- Introductory VHDL & FPGA Design (2nd/3rd year) - Students are introduced to the VHDL hardware description language, working with FPGA development boards, and the concept of a design flow.
- Further VHDL & FPGA Design (3rd/4th year) - Continuing from the Introductory class, further topics in VHDL, block-based FPGA design tools, System on Chip (SoC) embedded systems, and the PYNQ software/hardware framework.
- FPGA Design for DSP and Communications (5th year / MSc) - I cover the implementation of DSP systems on FPGAs, including arithmetic, filters, multirate operations, numerically controlled oscillators, the CORDIC technique, as well as aspects of wireless communications transmitters and receivers, and Software Defined Radio (SDR).
I also have experience teaching various aspects of digital logic, state machines, DSP theory, wireless communications theory and design, synchronisation, and other topics. I supervise 4th year, 5th year and MSc projects in these and related areas.
Professional Activities
- Quantum Instrumentation and Control with RFSoC and PYNQ
- Organiser
- 24/8/2026
- AMD International Research Exchange @ Strathclyde
- Organiser
- 27/5/2026
- RFSoC with PYNQ: A Crash Course!
- Speaker
- 15/12/2025
- RFSoC & PYNQ in Action: From 5G to Quantum and Beyond!
- Speaker
- 11/12/2025
- Software Defined Radio Prototyping of AI-Enabled Systems Towards 6G
- Speaker
- 9/12/2025
- IEEE Global Communications Conference
- Participant
- 8/12/2025
Projects
- Managing the Integration, Interoperability of Devices, APIs, and Standards (MiiDAS) SNPN 5G Assured Integration (CR&D)
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise (Co-investigator) Crawford, David H (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2028
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Harris, Finlay
- Crockett, Louise (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) Harris, Finlay (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2024 | Gillan, Euan
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise (Co-investigator) Gillan, Euan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
- Spectrum Sharing and Sensing in non-3GPP Bands for 5G/6G
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Open Networks Shared Spectrum and Innovation Design Environment ONSIDE
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crawford, David H (Research Co-investigator) Crockett, Louise (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025
- 5G New Radio PHY Layer Implementation
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Louise
Crockett
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: louise.crockett@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2684