Work Package 6 (E_WP6) Leader

Prof. John Thompson is with the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and currently holds a personal chair in signal processing and communications He specializes in antenna array processing, efficient hardware implementation of signal processing algorithms and energy efficient wireless communications. He has published approximately 100 journal and 120 conference papers on these topics, including a number of invited papers, and book chapters. He was elected as a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society, the second largest IEEE society, for the period 2012-2014. He was previously the overall project leader for the multi-university EPSRC project “Adaptive Hardware Systems with Novel Algorithmic Design” and led the EMRS DTC Project on "Sampling Techniques for Broadband Electromagnetic Scanning".

Email: John.Thompson@ed.ac.uk