A seminar list for the Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) in the School of Engineering.
If you have a question about this list, please contact:
- Majid Safari (msafari)
- Ardimas Purwita (s1600157)
- Konstantinos Voulgaris (s1789135)
- Anil Yesilkaya (s1682111)
- Maddy McBeath (mmcbeath)
Each talk has an organiser. Please contact them in the first instance if you have a query about a particular talk. Only contact one of the people below if you have a question about the list, such as whether your talk or series could be added.
Using Light to Build the Future Wireless Nervous System |
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Harald Haas |
Tue 03 Sep 2019, 11:30 - 12:30 |
AGB seminar room |
Distributed Signal Processing and Learning: Overview and Recent Developments |
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Prof. Kostas Berberidis |
Thu 06 Jun 2019, 10:00 - 11:00 |
AGB seminar room |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Meet Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning |
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Arumugam Nallanathan |
Wed 05 Jun 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
AGB seminar room |
Massive MIMO for (B)5G - lessons learned and some thoughts about the future |
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Erik G. Larsson |
Wed 05 Jun 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 |
AGB seminar room |
Inverse problems in structural engineering and construction materials |
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Danny Smyl |
Tue 07 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare, Classroom 6 |
Index Time Division Multiple Access (I-TDMA) for LiFi Systems |
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Hanaa Abumarshoud |
Thu 25 Apr 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Access Point Selection Scheme for LiFi Cellular Networks using Angle Diversity Receivers |
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NO SPEAKER AVAILABLE FOR THIS TALK |
Fri 12 Apr 2019, 13:20 - 13:40 |
JCMB 2.2009a |
Random Receiver Orientation Effect on Channel Gain in LiFi Systems |
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Zhihong Zheng |
Fri 12 Apr 2019, 13:00 - 13:20 |
JCMB 2.2009a |
IDCOM Seminar Talk by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Karl Peissig |
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Jürgen Karl Peissig |
Fri 29 Mar 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 |
AGB seminar room |

Randomised Algorithms for Large Scale Linear Algebra and Data Analytics - PER-GUNNAR J. MARTINSSON |
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PER-GUNNAR J. MARTINSSON |
Thu 14 Feb 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
JCMB Lecture Theatre A |

Towards improved metal detection of multiple inhomogeneous conducting objects using magnetic polarizability tensors |
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Paul Ledger |
Tue 27 Nov 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 |
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building |

Widely Linear Complex-Valued Kernel Methods for Regression |
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Rafael Boloix-Tortosa |
Tue 02 Oct 2018, 13:15 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare Building, Classroom 8 |

522 Mb/s OFDM based laser data and power transfer using a GaAs photovoltaic cell |
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John Fakidis |
Wed 26 Sep 2018, 13:00 - 13:30 |
Hudson Beare Building, Classroom 8 |

Factorised spatial representation learning: application in semi-supervised myocardial segmentation |
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Agisilaos Chartsias |
Thu 13 Sep 2018, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Understanding Plant Robots: Robots, Imaging and Computer Vision |
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Hanno Scharr, Dr. habil., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, |
Fri 07 Sep 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Impact of Timing Offset on Optical Spatial Pulse Position Modulation |
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Gbolahan Olanrewaju |
Wed 22 Aug 2018, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Unsupervised Learning of Visual Object Structures |
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Hakan Bilen |
Thu 09 Aug 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Frequency Domain System Identification for High Resolution IRCI-Free Collocated MIMO Radar |
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Mohammed AlShaya |
Mon 30 Jul 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Foundations of Energy Harvesting and Energy Cooperating Communications |
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Aylin Yener |
Wed 06 Jun 2018, 11:30 - 12:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

SI-POF Transmission with CAP Modulation and Split–Complex MLP Equalizer |
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Isaac Osahon |
Tue 15 May 2018, 13:30 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare, Classroom 7 |

A Study of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Underwater Visible Light Communication Systems |
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Callum Geldard |
Tue 15 May 2018, 13:00 - 13:30 |
Hudson Beare, Classroom 7 |

AI for healthcare: Becoming the expert |
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Alison O'Neil, EngD |
Fri 11 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

The SoC Baseband Processor Design For VLC |
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Trio Adiono |
Tue 08 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare, Classroom 6 |

Improved 2-class Target Classification Performance using Radar Waveform Design |
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Sultan Alshirah |
Wed 11 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare Building - Classroom 7 |

Dithered Beamforming for channel estimation in mmWave-massive MIMO |
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Evangelos Vlachos |
Thu 05 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Visual, Auditory and Collaborative Sensing for Autonomous Robots |
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Andrea Cavallaro |
Tue 27 Mar 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare Building, Classroom 8 |

Space Communication: Opportunity and Challenge |
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Dr. Rongke LIU |
Tue 13 Feb 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Revisiting the Principal Component Analysis: New Insights and Algorithms |
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Armin Eftekhari |
Fri 02 Feb 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare Building, Classroom 8 |

Selecting a Mesh for Chemical Species Tomography with Bayesian Model Comparison |
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Samuel Grauer |
Tue 23 Jan 2018, 13:00 - 13:30 |
Classroom 4, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Evolution of Home Energy Management and Smart Metering Communications towards 5G |
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Mehdi Zeinali |
Wed 08 Nov 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Waveform Independent Range Profile Reconstruction for Synthetic Aperture Radar |
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Claire Tierney |
Wed 18 Oct 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Imaging Cell-drug Response in 3D Scaffolds by Electrical Impedance Tomograpy |
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Hancong Wu |
Tue 10 Oct 2017, 13:30 - 14:00 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Nonlinear Temperature Field Reconstruction Using Acoustic Tomography |
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Bao Yong |
Tue 10 Oct 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
On Throughput Maximization Based on Optimal Update Interval in Li-Fi Networks |
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Mohammad Dehghani Soltani |
Wed 04 Oct 2017, 13:40 - 14:00 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Why Would 5G Need Optical Wireless Communications? |
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Tezcan Cogalan |
Wed 04 Oct 2017, 13:20 - 13:40 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

An Investigation of the Solar Irradiance Effect on Visible Light Communications |
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Mohamed Sufyan Islim |
Wed 04 Oct 2017, 13:00 - 13:20 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Large-Scale 3D Anisotropic Inversion of Towed Streamer EM Data Using the Gauss-Newton Method |
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Johan Mattsson |
Thu 14 Sep 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare, Classroom 7 |

A Monte Carlo Framework for Low Dose CT Reconstruction Testing |
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Jonathan Mason |
Tue 29 Aug 2017, 14:45 - 15:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Adversarial Image Synthesis for Unpaired Multi-Modal Cardiac Data |
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Agisilaos Chartsias |
Tue 29 Aug 2017, 14:30 - 14:45 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Robust Multi-Modal MR Image Synthesis |
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Agisilaos Chartsias |
Tue 29 Aug 2017, 14:00 - 14:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

MIMO Transmitters with Single Power Amplifier |
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Müller |
Wed 19 Jul 2017, 10:00 - 10:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Analysis and Optimization of Multi-layer FFR Designs in Multi-cellular OFDMA Networks |
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Jan Garcia Morales |
Tue 18 Jul 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Robust Sparse Blind Source Separation |
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Cecile Chenot |
Tue 27 Jun 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB seminar room |

Elucidating age-specific patterns from childhood EEG using Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) |
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Eli Kinney-Lang |
Tue 20 Jun 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

MultiD-AMP: match up Accuracy and Fast Computation by Dynamically Denoising Data |
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Alessandro Perelli |
Mon 29 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Efficient Coherent Integration for Digital Video Broadcast-Based Passive Bistatic Radars |
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Shengheng Liu |
Tue 23 May 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Low Complexity Energy Efficiency Analysis in Millimeter Wave Communication Systems |
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Pan Cao |
Wed 17 May 2017, 13:30 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Beamforming with superposition coding in multi-antenna satellite communications |
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Xiaoyan Shi |
Wed 17 May 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Spatial-Mode Multiplexing with Zero-Forcing Beamforming in Free Space Optical Communications |
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Shenjie Huang |
Tue 16 May 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Bayesian Interpretation of Meta-Heuristic Optimisation Algorithms |
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Thomas Joyce |
Tue 02 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB seminar room |

Adaptive Waveform Design for Interference Mitigation in SAR |
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Claire Tierney |
Tue 25 Apr 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB seminar room |

Synchronization of Carrierless Amplitude and Phase Modulation in Visible Light Communication |
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Kabeer Akande |
Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:30 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Hybrid POF/VLC link with M-PAM and MLP Equaliser |
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Isaac N. O. Osahon |
Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Target detection and tracking for space situational awareness: specificities and challenges |
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Emmanuel Delande |
Fri 14 Apr 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Simultaneous tracking and long time integration for detection in collaborative array radars |
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Kimin Kim |
Tue 11 Apr 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Scalable Latent Parameter Estimation in Fusion Networks |
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Murat Uney |
Tue 04 Apr 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Handover Modelling for Indoor Li-Fi Cellular Networks: The Effects of Receiver Mobility and Rotation |
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Mohammad Dehghani Soltani |
Tue 14 Mar 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB seminar room |

Boundary Element and Shape Inversion Methods in Electrical Tomography |
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Dr Shangjie Ren |
Fri 10 Mar 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB seminar room |

From scaling disparities to integrated parallelism: Space-division multiplexing in fiber-optic communications |
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Dr. Peter J. Winzer |
Sat 18 Feb 2017, 09:30 - 10:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Max-Min Fair Airtime Allocation for Millimetre Wave Backhaul Networks |
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Rui Li |
Tue 14 Feb 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Sketching for Large-Scale Learning of Mixture Models |
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Nicolas Keriven |
Wed 18 Jan 2017, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Process tomography for multiphase flow measurement |
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Tan Chao |
Tue 20 Dec 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Scenario for mapping a 3D structure of variable current by ocean acoustic tomography |
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Arata Kaneko |
Wed 07 Dec 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Hudson Beare, Lecture Theatre 2 |

Efficient Graph Signal Recovery Over Big Networks |
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Gabor Hannak |
Fri 02 Dec 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

The Complex Hierarchical Topology of EEG Functional Connectivity |
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Keith Smith |
Tue 15 Nov 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

ERI-RBM: Learning Rotation-Invariant Features Using Restricted Boltzmann Machine |
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Mario Valerio Giuffrida, University of Edinburgh |
Fri 23 Sep 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Image Reconstruction for Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Group Sparsity Constraint |
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Yunjie Yang, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) |
Tue 20 Sep 2016, 13:30 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Sparse Hybrid Precoding and Combining in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems |
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Aryan Kaushik, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) |
Tue 20 Sep 2016, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Simulation study of temperature field reconstruction based on acoustic tomography |
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Bao Yong, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) |
Tue 13 Sep 2016, 13:30 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Feasibility Study of Frequency-difference Electrical Impedance Tomography on Industrial Applications |
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Hancong Wu, IDCOM |
Tue 13 Sep 2016, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Spectral Efficient Cooperative Downlink Transmission Schemes for DCO-OFDM-Based Optical Attocell Networks |
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Hossein Kazemi, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) |
Tue 06 Sep 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Waveform Performance for Asynchronous Wireless 5G Uplink Communications |
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Shendi WANG, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh |
Tue 30 Aug 2016, 13:30 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Fair and Efficient Full Duplex MAC Protocol based on the IEEE 802.11 DCF |
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Jinho Kim, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh |
Tue 30 Aug 2016, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Offloading to Neighbouring Nodes in Smart Camera Network |
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Saurav Sthapit |
Tue 23 Aug 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Dispersion Entropy for the Analysis of Resting-state MEG Regularity in Alzheimer’s Disease |
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Hamed Azami - University of Edinburgh - IDCOM |
Tue 02 Aug 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Applications of Mobile Robots In Future Wireless Communication Systems – Intelligent Trajectory Planners |
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Dr Des McLernon, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK |
Mon 18 Jul 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Variance Normalizing Transform for Performance Improvement in Radio-Over-Fiber Systems |
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Iman Tavakkolnia, IDCOM |
Tue 21 Jun 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Classroom 7, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Accelerating Quantitative MRI with MR Fingerprinting |
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Pedro Gómez |
Mon 13 Jun 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Classroom 4, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
On Visible Light Communication and Quality of Light Emitted from Illumination LEDs |
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Dr. Wasiu O. Popoola, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh |
Wed 01 Jun 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Classroom 4, Hudson Beare Building |
Energy Efficiency Optimization of 5G Radio Frequency Chain Systems |
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Ran Zi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China |
Tue 10 May 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
A New Approach to Moving Targets and Background Separation in Multi-Channel SAR |
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Di Wu, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh |
Tue 26 Apr 2016, 13:30 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Phase Recovery for 3D SAR Range Focusing |
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Dr Mehrdad Yaghoobi, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh |
Tue 26 Apr 2016, 13:00 - 13:30 |
AGB seminar room |
Device-to-Device communication in vehicular ad hoc networks and 5G networks |
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Weijun Xing, Tongji University, China |
Tue 19 Apr 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
Classroom 4, Hudson Beare Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

An Advanced Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Biomedical and Industrial Imaging |
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Yunjie Yang, nstitute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) |
Tue 12 Apr 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB seminar room |

Capacity Limits of Spatially Multiplexed Free- Space Communication |
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Prof. Joseph M. Kahn, Stanford University, USA |
Tue 05 Apr 2016, 17:00 - 18:00 |
Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Alexander Graham Bell Building, King's Buildings |
A Bayesian Inversion Approach to Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Imaging |
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Dimitris Kamilis, University of Edinburgh Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) |
Tue 29 Mar 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Data Fusion based on Coupled Matrix and Tensor Factorizations |
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Dr Evrim Acar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Thu 17 Mar 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Radio Frequency Identification with Compressed Sensing |
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Martin Mayer, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria |
Tue 15 Mar 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |
Downlink Cooperation with Fractional Frequency Reuse in DCO-OFDMA Optical Attocell Networks |
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Hossein Kazemi |
Tue 09 Feb 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL |

Telekinetic Technology: Designing Your Own Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) |
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Eli Kinney-Lang |
Tue 02 Feb 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
AGB seminar room |
