Project Members

Project Director

Theme Leaders

Other Investigators

Dr Paul Mitcheson Principal Investigator Lecturer Imperial College E-mail: paul.mitcheson@imperial.ac.uk Web: www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/... Paul Mitcheson received the MEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Eng. (2001) and the PhD degree (2005) both from Imperial College, where he is a Lecturer in the Control and Power Research Group. His research interests are in micro-power generators and their associated power electronics. He has published over 20 papers, and a book chapter, on energy harvesting; one of these. co-authored with Professor Yeatman and other colleagues, is the most-cited paper in the IEEE/ASME Journal of MEMS since 2004.		Dr Bernard Stark Principal Investigator Lecturer University of Bristol E-mail: bernard.stark@bristol.ac.uk Web: www.bristol.ac.uk/eeng/... Bernard Stark was recently appointed as a lecturer, following a 3-year research fellowship at Oxford Uni. and a 2-year postdoctoral research position at Imperial College working on power electronics for energy harvesting. He received a PhD from Cambridge Uni. in 2000. His research interests are low-power energy management. Recent research has focussed on extracting energy from harvesting materials, and the design of semiconductor devices to accumulate these minute amounts of energy. This work formed part of EPSRC GR/R09749/01 (Technologies for microengineered power systems), and EU FW5 IST-2000-26091 ORESTEIA (Embedded computing), and established self-powered medical sensors. Stark received a DTI Smart Award in 2003 to commercialise his patents in electronic displays.
Dr Geoff Merrett Co-Investigator Advisory Board Secretary Lecturer University of Southampton E-mail: gvm@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/gvm Geoff Merrett received the BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering (2004) and PhD Electronic and Electrical Engineering (2009) degrees from the University of Southampton, where he is presently a lecturer in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. His PhD thesis was entitled "Energy- and Information-Managed Wireless Sensor Networks: Modelling and Simulation," and he has research interests in energy-aware wireless sensing and sensor networks, energy harvesting, modelling and simulation, and pervasive healthcare. Dr Merrett is a Co-Investigator on two EPSRC funded projects in the areas of energy harvesting. He is actively involved in the School's Pervasive Systems Centre (PSC), and founded and chairs an interest group on wireless sensing (WiSE) as part of its "wireless sensing" research theme. He has authored a number of journal and conference publications in the area of wireless sensor networks, and a chapter on "Wireless Devices and Sensor Networks" in a book entitled "Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems." He is a member of the IET, IEEE and an active reviewer for a number of prestigious international journals.		Professor Neil White Co-Investigator Head of ECS University of Southampton E-mail: nmw@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/nmw Neil White has over 20 years experience in the design and fabrication of intelligent sensor systems and energy harvesting. He is currently PI on EPSRC projects including the Platform Grant "New directions for intelligent sensors" and "Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting". He is a co-founder of Perpetuum Ltd, a spin-out energy harvesting company. He has over 200 refereed publications including the most downloaded energy harvesters review article on the Measurement Science and Technology web site and has published the only paper to describe employing thick-film piezoelectric materials as energy harvesters.
Professor Steve Beeby Co-Investigator Reader University of Southampton E-mail: spb@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/spb Steve Beeby's research interests include energy harvesting, microsystems and sensors development. He was project co-ordinator of the recently completed EU-funded VIBES project that produced the smallest and most powerful energy harvesters-based wireless transmission system. He is a co-founder of Perpetuum Ltd, a spin-out energy harvesting company. He has published extensively in the areas of MEMS and micro-generators.		Dr Koushik Maharatna Co-Investigator Senior Lecturer University of Southampton E-mail: km3@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/km3 Koushik Maharatna worked as a Scientist in the High Performance Microelectronics Institute, Frankfurt (2000- 2003), working on the Wireless Broadband Network and the Federal Government funded IBMS2 projects, targeting the implementation of single chip modem for IEEE 802.11 standard. He developed new algorithms and architectures for FFT/IFFT processor, Viterbi decoder, including their silicon implementation. He has published 35 refereed papers on DSP and low-power design.
Dr Alex Bystrov Co-Investigator Lecturer Newcastle University E-mail: a.bystrov@ncl.ac.uk Web: www.ncl.ac.uk/eece/... Alex Bystrov's research interests are in the area of asynchronous VLSI design, arbiters and synchronizers, with expertise in chip design and test (http://async.org.uk/chip-gallery.html). He has published over 30 papers.		Dr Neville McNeill Co-Investigator Lecturer University of Bristol E-mail: N.McNeill@bristol.ac.uk Web: http://www.bris.ac.uk/eeng/... Neville has several years experience working in the electric vehicle industry, designing motor drives, on-board power converters and battery pack chargers. As well as working on electric vehicles, he has also designed circuitry for railway traction applications. He holds the MPhil and PhD degrees for research into power electronics from Napier University in Edinburgh, is a member of the IET and is registered as a chartered engineer.

Research Staff

Dr Anisha Mukherjee Researcher: Theme A Research Associate Imperial College E-mail: anisha@imperial.ac.uk Web: www2.ee.ic.ac.uk/... Prior to joining Imperial College in 2007 as a Research Associate, Anisha G. Mukherjee was a RF Design Engineer with OKI Semiconductors, Singapore. As a RF Design Engineer for five years in OKI Semiconductors, she has had the opportunity to contribute to some of OKI's capstone achievements, e.g. IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee and Bluetooth RFIC single-chips designs. In Imperial College, her focus is to design and develop MEMS processes for various applications. She has developed a die carrier process technology to embed MEMS components on Post CMOS processed dies. Currently she is involved in development of an energy harvesting tuning micro generator.		Dr Steve Wright Researcher: Theme A Researcher Imperial College E-mail: s.wright02@imperial.ac.uk Web: http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/... Dr Steve Wright has worked in the Electrical Engineering Department at Imperial College London researching the fabrication methods and properties of compound semiconductor thin film transistors, their use in addressing flat panel displays and integrated drive circuits for displays. More recent work has been on the development of materials and methods for producing high resistance, low TCR materials for high value resistors in integrated circuits, and also high dielectric constant materials for ICs.
Dr Delong Shang Researcher: Theme B Senior Research Associate Newcastle University E-mail: delong.shang@ncl.ac.uk Web: www.ncl.ac.uk/eece/... Dr. Delong Shang has 20 years of research and academic experiences in computer architecture, microprocessor/CPU design, digital system design, synchronous/asynchronous circuit (VLSI circuit) design, hardware modelling and synthesis. His research interests are in computer architecture, low power/power efficient embedded systems, asynchronous FPGA, self-timed VLSI circuits and intelligent asynchronous controller. He is a TPC member of a number of international conferences. He has been awarded the "Computers and Digital Techniques Premium", IEE Engineering Communities (2006), and the first prize of "Mentor Graphics' 10th Anniversary PCB & MCM Technology Leadership Awards" (1996), etc.		Dr Fei Xia Resercher: Theme B Senior Research Associate Newcastle University E-mail: fei.xia@ncl.ac.uk Web: www.ncl.ac.uk/eece/... Fei Xia has been an active researcher in asynchronous circuits and systems for 20 years. His main contributions have been in the areas of data communication between asynchronous units, arbiters and metastability, and system modelling, design and analyses. More recently he has developed an interest in low power and energy proportional computing and related issues. He has been a TPC member of a number of international conferences in related fields.
Dr Leran (Phil) Wang Researcher: Theme C Research Fellow University of Southampton E-mail: lw04r@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/lw04r Leran Wang received his MSc degree from the University of Liverpool and PhD degree from University of Southampton, in 2004 and 2009 respectively. Before coming to UK, he received the BEng degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2003. He is currently a research fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. His research interest focus on HDL based modelling and optimisation of mixed physical domain systems for energy harvesting, automotive and MEMS applications.		Dr Alex Weddell Researcher: Theme C and Demonstrators Research Fellow University of Southampton E-mail: asw@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/asw Alex Weddell was awarded his MEng degree by the University of Southampton in 2005 and studied for his PhD, entitled "A comprehensive scheme for reconfigurable energy-aware wireless sensor nodes", at the same institution. He contributed to the Data Information Fusion Defence Technology Centre (DIF DTC) "Adaptive energy aware sensor networks" project and was worked under the EPSRC platform grant "New directions for intelligent sensors". He has experience with a range of energy harvesting devices and has developed a platform which supports a mix of energy sources to power an energy-aware wireless sensor node.
Dr Dibin Zhu Researcher: Demonstrators Research Fellow University of Southampton E-mail: dz@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/dz Dibin Zhu was awarded MSc in RF Communication Systems in 2005 and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2009, both by the University of Southampton. His PhD topic was "Methods of frequency tuning vibration-based micro-generators". He has contributed to multiple research projects on energy harvesting including the most recent one: TRIADE (Development of technology building blocks For structural health monitoring sensing devices in aeronautics) which is funded under EU FP7. His research interest is energy harvesting from various sources, e.g. vibration, wind, human movement, etc.

Research Students

Gyorgy Szarka Research Student: Theme A Postgraduate Research Associate University of Bristol E-mail: G.Szarka.04@bristol.ac.uk Web: www.bris.ac.uk/eeng/... Gyorgy Szarka was awarded his MEng degree in Communications and Multimedia Engineering after graduating from the University of Bristol in 2008. Currently, he is working towards a PhD in Power Electronics within the area of power conditioning of micro-power kinetic energy harvesters. His research interests include efficient power conversion at microwatt loads, ultra-low power control strategies for energy harvesters, and low-power environmental monitoring.		Plamen Proynov Research Student: Theme A Postgraduate Research Student University of Bristol E-mail: P.Proynov@bristol.ac.uk Web: none Plamen Proynov is currently working on a PhD in Energy Harvesting/Renewable Micro-Power Sources at the University of Bristol. Previously he worked as an automation engineer on design, installation and commissioning of industrial automation control systems. He received the B.Sc. (2005) and M.Sc. (2008) degrees in automation and control engineering from the University of Varna, Bulgaria.
Reza Ramezani Research Student: Theme B Postgraduate Research Student Newcastle University E-mail: reza.ramezani@ncl.ac.uk Web: none Reza Ramezani received his BSc in electronic engineering in 2005 in Iran then joining IUERC (Isfahan University Engineering Research Centre) for 3 years. He finished his MSc in communication and signal processing at University of Newcastle in 2009 where he is currently pursuing his PhD in the area of ultra low power designs.		Jatin Mistry Research Student: Theme B Postgraduate Research Student University of Southampton E-mail: jnm106@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/jnm106 Jatin Mistry graduated from the University of Southampton with a BEng in Electronic Engineering in 2009. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the area of ultra low power computing in the Pervasive Systems Centre at the same University.
Xuefu Zhang Research Student: Theme B Postgraduate Research Student Newcastle University E-mail: xuefu.zhang@ncl.ac.uk Web: none Xuefu Zhang received his BEng in Measurement & Control Technology and Instruments in 2007 in China. He received his MSc in Microelectronics at Newcastle University upon Tyne in 2009 and where he pursues advanced studies in PhD in the area of Power Managements and Systems Switching Strategies for Energy Harvesting Systems.		Abdullah Baz Research Student: Theme B Postgraduate Research Student Newcastle University E-mail: abdullah.baz@ncl.ac.uk Web: none Abdullah Baz is a PhD candidate with the Microelectronics System Design (MSD) group at Newcastle University, working on the area of power adaptive computing. He received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Umm Al-Qura University in 2002, M.S. degree in computer engineering from King AbdulAziz University in 2006 and M.S. degree in communications and signal processing from Newcastle University in 2009. He has over 4 years experience in system and database administration.
Mustafa Imran Ali Research Student Postgraduate Research Student University of Southampton E-mail: mia08r@ecs.soton.ac.uk Web: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/mia08r Mustafa Ali is an MPhil/PhD student, working on energy management for systems that utilize energy harvesting. Previously, he worked as a hardware design engineer on design and verification of digital communication FPGAs. He holds the MS degree in Computer Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia and the BEng degree in Computer Systems Engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan.