The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has a vibrant research oriented culture. The caliber of our work can be seen through the following. We have won over 34 international awards since 1990, licensed/commercialized 28 products and started 17 spin-off companies. In addition, we currently hold 73 patents and have a further 27 pending.

The work of our research staff is published in internationally recognized journals, and they are regularly requested to present papers at international conferences. Our publications have shown a healthy growth over the past years and over 700 papers were published in various journals, conferences and books since 2001. The major research areas and activities are as follows:

• Biomedical Instrumentation
• Biomedical systems
• Biosignal Processing & Interpretation
• Medical Expert Systems
• Medical Image Processing and Analysis
• Medical Informatics
• Telemedicine

• Mobile Wireless Communications
• Modulation & Coding
• Networks
• Optical Communications & Networking
• Ultra Wide Band

• Computer Vision
• Digital Signal Processing
• Distributed Computing
• Embedded Systems
• Mixed Reality
• Multimedia Signal Processing
• Neural Networks
• Video & Image Compression

• Drives/Motion Control
• Microactuators and Precision Servo Systems
• Power Electronics
• Power Systems & Integration

• Device Failure and Reliability Analysis
• Instrumentation & Techniques
• VLSI Systems

• Adaptive Control/Auto Tuning
• Advanced Process Control and Optimization
• Computational Intelligence
• Intelligent Automatic/Autonomous Systems
• Intelligent Motion Control/Mechatronics

• Information Storage Materials
• Laser Microprocessing
• Nanoelectronics
• Nanostructures & Nano-characterisations
• Photonics & Optoelectronics

• EM Theory and Fast Computational Algorithms Development
• High-Performance RF/Microwave and Subsystem Design and Characterization
• Measurement Characterization & Modelling
• MMIC
• Radar Systems