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.
Professional activities
- IEEE 5G Summit
- Organiser
- 14/5/2018
- Faculty Robotics and Automation Users Group Discussion
- Participant
- 10/10/2017
- IEEE Metro Area Workshop, Glasgow
- Organiser
- 13/10/2015
- 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference - Workshops
- Organiser
- 11/5/2015
- Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTA) and TSB Project Award
- Participant
- 9/2010
- 20th EUSIPCO, European Signal Processing Conference, August 2009, Glasgow, Scotland
- Chair
- 8/2009
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Projects
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | McTaggart, Blair
- Crockett, Louise Helen (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) McTaggart, Blair (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2021
- DTP 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | McLaughlin, Lewis
- Crockett, Louise Helen (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) McLaughlin, Lewis (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2021
- DTP 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | MacLellan, Andrew
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Crockett, Louise Helen (Co-investigator) MacLellan, Andrew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2021
- 5G Rural-First: Rural Coverage and Dynamic Spectrum Access Testbed and Trial
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Andonovic, Ivan (Co-investigator) Irvine, James (Co-investigator) Michie, Craig (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2019
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Ramsay, Craig
- Crockett, Louise Helen (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Robert (Co-investigator) Ramsay, Craig (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2021
- Enabling Affordable Internet Access with Dynamic Spectrum Management & Software Defined Radio (GCRF)
- Stewart, Robert (Principal Investigator) Weiss, Stephan (Co-investigator) Crawford, David H (Research Co-investigator)
- "This project aims to investigate how the use of dynamic spectrum access (DSA) management and geo-location database technology, combined with software defined radio (SDR) implementations may be used to enable effective and efficient wireless networks to be built at scale in developing countries in order to support affordable Internet access using the shared spectrum resource. The project will seek to evolve DSA methods and techniques to generally improve this type of spectrum sharing service, and hence these improvements in the UK, will be fully shared and supported by our international ODA partners. The project will be led by the University of Strathclyde's Centre for White Space Communications (CWSC), working with international ODA university partners in Kenya, Zambia, Ghana & Malawi (further engaging with partners in their countries - both industry and regulators). There will also be support and input from a number of key industry partners including dynamic spectrum access database and cloud services partners: Nominet and Microsoft, production white space/DSP radio vendors, Adaptrum and 6Harmonics; UK SME internet service providers (ISPs) partners Cloudnet and Broadway Partners; and communication/ SDR software support from MathWorks, and FPGA hardware vendors Xilinx. All of the relationships and partners in this proposal are already pre-existing, trusted and in some cases very long term relationships, including previous and active Strathclyde links to partners in all four African countries. Figure 1 below illustrates the partners in this project.
CWSC and its collaborating partners have considerable expertise and experience in DSA management, and were instrumental in helping Ofcom as it progressed towards putting regulations in place for dynamic use of White Space spectrum in the TV band - regulations which went 'live' on 31st December 2015. The project will build upon previous work that has taken place in the four overseas countries, and will ultimately lead to benefits in the form of improved routes towards digital inclusion in those countries, and we anticipate followed later by 'ripple effect' to neighbouring or regional countries."
- 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2020
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