Professor Robert Stewart

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

I am currently the MathWorks Professor of Signal Processing at the University of Strathclyde. Since August 2014 I have been Chair and Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, with more than 55 academic staff and almost 300 researchers. My interests in teaching, knowledge exchange and research over the last 20 years has focussed around signal processing and communications. In recent years I have been working on digital communications and software defined radio, with specific interest in radio standards such as LTE, 802.11, and most recently on wireless white space radio utilising TV spectrum frequencies. From 2006-2012 I was the Xilinx Professor of DSP and Digital Logic at Strathclyde, and from since 1997 I have been a visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension School. In 2004 I was a founder of the technology company Steepest Ascent Ltd, based in Glasgow with an office in Los Angeles. The company was acquired by MathWorks in 2013 who now have an engineering development office in Glasgow near to the University.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
FPGA Implementations for SDR
White Space Radio and wireless standards
MATLAB./Simulink SDR Design

Prizes 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

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Publications

Spectrum monitoring and analysis with the AMD RFSoC: Northcote David, Šiaučiulis Marius, McLaughlin Lewis, Fitzpatrick Graeme, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W; Operating in the Future Electromagnetic Environment Symposium 2022 (2022)
Training deep filters for physical layer frame synchronization: Kalade Sarunas, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W; IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Vol 3, pp. 1063-1075 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2022.3185973
Low-cost, high-speed parallel FIR filters for RFSoC front-ends enabled by CλaSH: Ramsay Craig, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W; 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 925-932 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF53345.2021.9723107
A natively fixed-point run-time reconfigurable FIR filter design method for FPGA hardware: Goldsmith Joshua, Crockett Louise H, Stewart Robert W; IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems Vol 3, pp. 25-37 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCAS.2022.3152399
Techno-economic study of 5G network slicing to improve rural connectivity in India: Koratagere Anantha Kumar Shruthi, Stewart Robert W, Crawford David, Chaudhari Sachin; IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Vol 2, pp. 2645-2659 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2021.3131370
Capture and visualisation of radio signals with an open source, single chip spectrum analyser: Northcote David, McLaughlin Lewis, Crockett Louise Helen, Stewart Robert; 2021 31st International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 31st International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (2021); https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL53798.2021.00078

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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

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Projects

Digital Dairy Value-Chain for South-West Scotland and Cumbria (Strength in Places Fund): Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) 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
5G New Radio PHY Layer Implementation: Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise Helen (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2025
5G New Thinking - Shared Spectrum Rural Network: Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Andonovic, Ivan (Co-investigator) Irvine, James (Co-investigator) Michie, Craig (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2022
REWIRE-NW: Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 28-Jan-2022
5G RuralDorset (5G-RuD): Irvine, James (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
5G RailNext: Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2021

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College

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