Professor Robert Stewart
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Bob Stewart is a Professor at the University of Strathclyde in the Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng, where he leads the 20-strong StrathSDR engineering team working on software defined radio (SDR) and next generation radio access networks using shared spectrum with dynamic spectrum access (DSA). In recent years, Bob has led a number of DCMS 5G Testbed and Trials projects including 5GRuralFirst and 5G NewThinking, both with a focus on rural connectivity, and also 5GRailNext designing networks for operation in Glasgow’s underground rail subway.
In 2019, working alongside partners Scottish Futures Trust and University of Glasgow, he was part of the founding partners team working with Scottish Government to create the Scotland 5G Centre. In 2004, Bob was a co-founder of the start-up digital communications company Steepest Ascent Ltd, which was later acquired by MathWorks in 2013. He is currently Director of Neutral Wireless Ltd designing new RAN and radio solutions for 5G private networks.
From 2014 to 2017 Bob was the term Head of Department of EEE at Strathclyde, and the Director of the Institute for Sensors, Signals and Communications. From 2006-2012 he was the Xilinx Professor of DSP and Digital Logic at Strathclyde, and from 1997 to 2017 he was a visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension School where he taught industry courses on DSP, SDR and FPGA implementations. Other appointments include a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and a first and rewarding job at Wolfson Microelectronics back in the 1980s in the early days of the DSP revolution.
Over a 30 year Bob has published 4 books and more than 200 papers and presented and attended many international conferences.
Area of Expertise
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Software Defined Radio (SDR)
- FPGA Implementations for SDR
- Shared Spectrum and Private 5G SA Networks
- MATLAB./Simulink SDR Design
Prize And Awards
- Award for Digital Inclusion
- Recipient
- 1/6/2019
- Awarded University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension Distinguished Professor Award 2010.
- Recipient
- 1/2009
- Xilinx Professor of Signal Processing. Xilinx Inc, a US based company have endowned a professorial chair in Digital Signal Processing, since 2006 and to be extended to end 2013.
- Recipient
- 6/2006
Publications
- Using a private 5G network to support the international broadcast of the coronation of HM King Charles III
- Yoffe Samuel R, Brew Malcolm R, Allan Douglas G, Barlee Kenneth W, Anderson Dani, Ighagbon Odianosen, Muir Damien, Goldsmith Joshua, Speirs Cameron, Stewart Robert W, Wagdin Ian, Waddell Mark B, Gandhu Purminder, Reed Andy, Ashton Simon
- 2024 BEIT Conference Proceedings (2024)
- Intelligent shared spectrum coordination in heterogeneous networks
- Atimati Ehinomen, Crawford David, Stewart Robert
- 2023 IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications (VCC) IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications 2023, pp. 252-257 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/VCC60689.2023.10474686
- Ultra-wideband SDR architecture for AMD RFSoCs and PYNQ based GNU Radio blocks
- Šiaučiulis Marius, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W
- GNU Radio Conference 2023, pp. 1-8 (2023)
- 5G standalone non-public networks : modernising wireless production
- Waddell M B, Yoffe S R, Barlee K W, Allan D G, Wagdin I, Brew M R, Butler D, Stewart R W
- IBC 2023 Conference (2023)
- RFSoC implementation of runtime reconfigurable numerologies for 5G New Radio
- Brown Lewis, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W
- 21st IEEE Interregional New Circuit and Systems (NEWCAS) Conference (2023)
- Streaming Convolutional Neural Network FPGA architecture for RFSoC data converters
- MacLellan Andrew, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W
- 21st IEEE Interregional New Circuit and Systems (NEWCAS) Conference, pp. 1-5 (2023)
Teaching
- Digital Communications
- Software Defined Radio
- FPGAs for DSP and Digital Communications
Professional Activities
- The 30th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
- Participant
- 16/5/2022
- The 30th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
- Participant
- 16/5/2022
- Spectrum Monitoring for Spectrum Sharing
- Speaker
- 2/12/2021
- Software Defined Radio with the open source RFSoC-PYNQ framework
- Speaker
- 8/9/2021
- EUSIPCO
- Speaker
- 23/8/2021
- Software Defined Radio with the RFSoC 2x2
- Speaker
- 20/8/2021
Projects
- Open Networks Shared Spectrum and Innovation Design Environment ONSIDE
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crawford, David H (Research Co-investigator) Crockett, Louise Helen (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- The Scotland 5G Centre (2023-24)
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Towards Ubiquitous 3D Open Resilient Network (Tudor).
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- Digital Dairy Value-Chain for South-West Scotland and Cumbria (Strength in Places Fund)
- Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Wagner, Beverly (Academic) Wilson, Juliette (Academic) Andonovic, Ivan (Co-investigator) Atkinson, Robert (Co-investigator) Bellekens, Xavier (Co-investigator) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator) Lengden, Michael (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator) Ward, Andrew (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2027
- 5GSubConnect
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crawford, David H (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- 5G New Radio PHY Layer Implementation
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise Helen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Robert
Stewart
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: r.stewart@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2396