• University of Cambridge
• Engineering Department
• Information Engineering Division (F)

We are always interested to hear what our past members are doing. If you are a past member or know one, please get in touch at div-f@eng.cam.ac.uk.

Past Staff

William J. Fitzgerald 1990-2014

• Professor of Applied Statistics and Signal Processing
• It is with great sadness that we report that Professor William (Bill) Fitzgerald died on 2nd April 2014.

Arnaud Doucet 2002-2005

• University Lecturer
• Now Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

Malcolm Macleod 1974-1979, 1988-2002

• Lecturer, then Director of Research, 1988-2002
• PhD Student 1974-1979, supervised by Prof Peter Rayner
• Now Chief Scientist, C4ISR, and Dean of Fellows , QinetiQ Ltd, and Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde

Sumeetpal S. Singh 2007-2023

• Professor of Engineering Statistics
• Head of Signal Processing and Communications Group
• Now Tibra Foundation Chair in Mathematical Sciences, University of Wollongong

Past Researchers

Richard Wareham Senior Research Associate Qi Wei 2015-2016 Research Associate Axel Finke 2015-2016 Research Associate James Murphy 2014-2016 Research Associate Fredrik Lindsten 2014-2015 Research Associate Ashley Butcher 2015 Research Associate Peter Bunch 2014-2015 Research Associate Tatjana Lemke 2014 Research Associate Alex Alvarado 2011-2014 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow Adria Tauste Campo 2008-2012 Research Associate 2011-2012 PhD student 2008-2011, supervised by Prof Albert Guillén i Fàbregas Now Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Michael Slater 2011-2012 Research Associate Now Software Engineer (iOS) at zeebox Tobias Koch 2010-2012 Marie Curie Research Fellow Now Profesor Visitante, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Simon Hill 1999-2003, 2007-2012 Research Associate 2007-2010, Senior Research Associate 2010-2012 PhD Student 1999-2003, supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Pedro Ortega 2010-2011 Research Associate Now Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institutes for Biological Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems Tom Dean 2009-2011 Research Associate Henry Gomersall 2006-2011 Research Associate 2010-2011 PhD Student 2006-2010, supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury

Jonathan Cameron 2003-2011 Research Associate 2007-2011 PhD Student 2003-2007, supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby: “Aspects of Conformal Geometric Algebra with Applications in Motion Capture” Alfonso Martinez 2011 Research Associate Now Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra James Nelson 2006-2010 Research Associate Now Senior Lecturer, Dept of Statistical Science, UCL Paris Kaimakis 2003-2010 Research Associate 2009-2010 PhD Student 2003-2009, supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Avishy Carmi 2008-2009 Research Associate Now Research Fellow, Asher Space Research Institute, The Technion François Septier 2008-2009 Research Associate Now Associate Professor, Télécom Lille / LAGIS Nedeljko Cvejic 2008 Research Associate Now Senior R&D Engineer, Intrasonics Ltd Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos 2006-2008 Research Associate Now Lecturer in Statistics, LSE Ali Tylan Cemgil 2005-2008 Research Associate Now Associate Professor, Dept of Cumpter Engineering, Bogazici Univeristy. Frederic Desobry 2004-2008 Research Associate Tuomas Virtanen 2007 Research Associate Now Academy Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Tampere University of Technology Daniel Clark 2007 Research Associate Ming Xu 2005-2007 Research Associate Kai Fai (William) Ng 2004-2007 Research Associate Ajay Jasra 2006 Research Associate Now Associate Professor, Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore

Past Students

2010s

Adam Greig Supervised by Dr Ramji Venkataramanan Stewart Forshaw Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Faizan Ahmad Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Geliang Zhang Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Xi Chen Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Tim Gale Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Ganchi Zhang Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Xiao Zhang Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Jing Guo Supervised by Prof Albert Guillén i Fàbregas Lan Jiang Supervised by Dr Sumeetpal Singh Michael Burke Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Ashley Butcher Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Timothy Roberts Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Maria Mestre Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Peter Bunch Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Di Wu 2013-2014 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Tatjana Lemke Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Hugh Christensen 2010-2014 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Jens Christensen 2009-2014 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill James Murphy 2009-2014 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill

Michelle Tuveson 2010-2013 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Executive Director, Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge John Beier 2012-2013 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Now Research and Data Analysis Consultant, Pneumacare Thierry Maldonado 2010-2011 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Li Peng 2008-2011 Supervised by Prof Albert Guillén i Fàbregas Taufiq (Agustian) Asyhari 2008-2011 Supervised by Prof Albert Guillén i Fàbregas Ee Sin Ng 2008-2011 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Qi Tu 2008-2011 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Andrew Feldhaus 2008-2011 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Tao Hong 2007-2011 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury PhD: Object Recognition with Features from Complex Wavelets Paul Peeling 2006-2011 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Now Consultant Engineer at The MathWorks Pashmina Bendale 2006-2011 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury PhD: Object Recognition and Classification with Complex Wavelets David Excell 2004-2011 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: Behavioural Analysis Yingsong Zhang 2007-2011 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ICL Andreas Aristidou 2007-2010 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Now Post-Doctoral Researcher and Διδακτωρ Fellow, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab, University of Cyprus Chao-Hua Lee 2005-2010 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Fabio Galasso 2005-2010 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby PhD: Computer Vision: Shape from Texture Now Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing Department, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken.

2000s

Adam Backer 2008-2009 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Nikolaos Kantas 2003-2009 Supervised by Dr Sumeetpal Singh Now Research Associate, Department of Statistical Science, UCL Alex Haughey 2004-2008 Supervised by Dr Arnaud Doucet PhD: Simulation-based Signal Processing Jun (Jack) Li 2003-2008 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill PhD: SMC Approaches for Multiple Target Tracking Omolabake Adenle 2003-2007 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: Blind Deconvolution James Ng 2003-2007 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury John Earl 2001-2007 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Ryan Anderson 2003-2007 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury PhD: Object and Texture Recognition using Complex Wavelets Mark Briers 2003-2007 Supervised by Dr Arnaud Doucet PhD: Robust Interpretation of Structured Information Now Principal Consultant, BAE Systems Detica Mark Miller 2002-2007 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury PhD: Image Reconstruction and Restoration using Complex Wavelets Edmund Jackson 2003-2007 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: Bayesian Genomic Modelling Chunlin Ji 2004-2006 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Adam Johansen 2002-2006 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: On SMC Methods for Multi-target Moment Tracking Zaifei (Julie) Liu 2002-2006 Supervised by Dr Arnaud Doucet PhD: Applications of Monte Carlo Methods in Telecommunications David Rimmer 2001-2006 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: Quantum Signal Processing George Poyiadjis 2001-2006 Supervised by Dr Arnaud Doucet PhD: Parameter Estimation in General State-Space Models Panagiotis Giannopoulos 1998-2006 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Pippa Lam 2000-2006 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Gareth Peters 2006-2007 Supervised by Dr Arnaud Doucet MSc: Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers Now Janet and Ian Duncan Endowed Chair Professor of Actuarial Science, and Chair Professor of Statistics for Risk and Insurance, University of California Santa Barbara Weng Sek H’ng 2002-2005 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: Financial Modelling Ainslie White 2000-2005 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Stephen Hainsworth 2000-2004 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod PhD: Techniques for the Automated Analysis of Musical Audio Simon Maskell 2000-2004 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Professor of Autonomous Systems, University of Liverpool Arthur Gretton 1999-2004 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Lecturer, Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, UCL

Matthew Orton 1999-2004 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Tanya Reeves 1997-2004 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Cian Shaffrey 1999-2004 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury PhD: Multiscale Techniques for Image Segmentation Classification and Retrieval Matthew Sathekge 1996-2003 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Maruice Ringer 1999-2003 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Wei Shi 1999-2003 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod William Fong 1999-2003 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Patrick Wolfe 1998-2003 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Now Professor of Statistics and Honorary Professor of Computer Science, UCL Sirajudeen Gulam Razul 1999-2003 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Principal Investigator/Senior Research Scientist, Sensor Array Team, Nanyang Technological University Patrick Loo 1998-2002 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Sahan Hiniduma Udugama 1998-2002 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Balaji Iyer 1997-2002 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Nicholas Haan 1997-2001 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Now CEO of BlueGnome Ltd John Winn 1999-2001 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Researcher, Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Wei Keat Lee 2000-2001 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner James Hopgood 1997-2001 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh Peter De Rivaz 1997-2001 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Paul Walmsley 1996-2001 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner *Kannan Balakrishnan * 1996-2001 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Alijah Ahmed 1996-2001 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner PhD: Signal Separation Marissa Tom 1998-1999 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Now Wireless Network Architect, TSTT Timothy Clapp 1996-2000 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill PhD: Statistical Methods for Processing Communications Data Now Group Leader, Digital Design, CSR Adam Stevenson 1995-2000 Supervised by Dr Joan Lasenby Norzila Ahmad Nordeen 1999-2000 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Alvin Kam 1997-2000 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Director, Commodity Exotics Trader, Citi Neil Campbell 1996-2000 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Tian Tsong Ng 1999-2000 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Researcher, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

1990s

Dierdre O'Brien 1999-2000 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Juan Jimenez 1997-1998 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Vincent Lee 1999-2000 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Don Ri Yuen 1999-2000 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Wee Jing Ng 1999-2000 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Steven Whitehouse 1996-2000 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now at Red Hat Richard Cook 1998-2000 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Malcolm Sellars 1996-2000 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Veluppillai Manimohan 1996-2000 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Mark Hsieh 1995-2000 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Eoin O'Tuairisg 1999-2000 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Christos Tsatsoulis 1998-1999 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Now Freelance Data Scientist Paul Troughton 1995-1999 Supervised by Prof Simon Godsill Now Product Development Manager and Generation Manager, Energy Response, Australia Steven Armstrong 1995-1999 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Ben Bradshaw 1995-1999 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Mark Coates 1995-1999 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: Time-frequency modelling Now Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada Robert Tennent 1995-1998 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Johan Khoo 1994-2000 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Andrew Varley 1994-1999 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Jacek Noga 1994-1998 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald David Elias 1994-1999 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Madhav Vij 1994-1999 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Simon Barker 1994-1998 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Jin Ghee Goh 1994-1998 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Robert Swann 1994-1998 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Kin Nang Lau 1994-1998 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Edmund Yeh 1994-1995 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, USA Anthony Huggett 1993-1999 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Senior Principal Engineer, Broadcom Ian Calderbank 1993-1999 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Ercan Kuruoglu 1993-1999 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Editor in Chief, Digital Signal Processing, and Visiting Scientist, Dept of Theoretical Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Christopher Hicks 1992-1999 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Miaodan Wu 1993-1998 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Julian Magarey 1993-1997 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Associate, Electrical/ICT team, Spruson & Ferguson Adam Tibbalds 1990-1997 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Executive Director, Strats Group, Morgan Stanley John Yates 1993-1994 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Jin Feei Loh 1992-1997 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Dominic Chan 1992-1997 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner

Raymond Auchterlounie 1991-1997 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod James Stark 1992-1996 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Teng Joon Lim 1992-1995 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Now Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore Andrew Dempster 1992-1995 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Now Professor, School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, and Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research Arumugam Nallanathan 1992-1995 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Professor of Wireless Communications, KCL Robin Morris 1991-1995 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Jebu Jacob Rajan 1991-1995 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Alan Garvin 1991-1995 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner David Redmill 1991-1995 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Research Support Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol Joseph O Ruanaidh 1990-1995 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Lead Algorithm Developer, Huron Technologies, Canada Deirdre Phelan 1991-1994 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Shanika Karunasekera 1991-1994 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Senior Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science & Software Engineering, University of Melbourne Martin Beale 1990-1994 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury David Tay 1990-1994 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Associate Professor and Head of Department, Electronic Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia Kenneth Pope 1990-1994 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Timothy Jervis 1989-1994 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald PhD: Connectionist Adaptive Control Now Director, Venus Energy Ltd Robert Young 1990-1993 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Ponnuthurai Suganthan 1990-1992 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Associate Professor, Control & Instrumentation, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sean Holden 1989-1994 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning, Computer Lab, Cambridge Anil Kokaram 1989-1993 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Tech Lead, Chrome Media Group, Google, and Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin Michael Lai 1989-1993 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Spencer Scoular 1989-1993 Supervised by Prof Bill Fitzgerald Now Principal Partner, Synergy Partners, Auckland Thomas Reiss 1989-1993 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Lawrence Ebringer 1989-1993 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Karl Mercer 1988-1993 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Anthony Quinn 1988-1993 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Niann-Tsyr Cheng 1987-1992 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Ian Keith Morrison 1987-1991 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Geok Leng Tan 1987-1991 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Executive Director (Science and Engineering Research Council), A*STAR Mike Addlesee 1986-1991 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Senior Algorithm Design Engineer, u-blox Paul Spencer 1986-1990 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Mike Lynch 1986-1990 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Founder, Autonomy, and Invoke Capital

1980s

John Tennant 1985-1989 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Mahapathy Kadirkamanathan 1985-1989 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Neil Pierry 1985-1989 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Brian Newdick 1987-1988 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Jonathon Chambers 1986-1988 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Professor of Communications and Signal Processing, Loughborough University William Harrold 1985-1988 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Now Founder/Director, Apoideas Jijie Zhu 1984-1988 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Said Vahed Vaseghi 1984-1988 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Michele Mathys 1986-1987 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Timothy Thorpe 1983-1987 Supervised by Prof Nick Kingsbury Aron Landy 1983-1986 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Leigh Carter 1982-1989 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Jane Critchley 1982-1986 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Wirendre Perera 1982-1986 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner

Pete Wilson 1980-1986 Supervised by Dr Malcolm Macleod Nik Daud 1984-1985 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Peter Trevor Breuer 1981-1985 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Now Lecturer, University Birmingham Duncan McLeod 1979-1985 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Yanzhong Zhang 1981-1984 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Ian Keith Prouder 1981-1984 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner John Andrew Johnston 1980-1984 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Lawrence Albinson 1978-1982 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Information Systems Consultant, L J Albinson Constantine Tamvaclis 1978-1982 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now at Eurocontrol Experimental Centre Max Peter Halbert 1977-1981 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Bernard Arambepola 1977-1981 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Paul Kwok 1976-1980 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Nigel Hoult 1975-1980 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon

1970s

Nicholas Parker 1975-1978 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Christopher Crozier 1973-1978 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Ian Gordon Phillips 1971-1978 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Musslih Harba 1977- Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Simon Fox 1975-1976 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Richard Parmee 1974-1977 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Now Director, Cheyney Group Lawrence Smith 1972-1976 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon David James Taylor 1971-1976 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon

Ian Childs 1969-1975 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Steven John Clancy 1973-1974 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon Elwyn Davies 1972-1974 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Robert Hook 1970-1974 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Peter Terrell 1970-1974 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Pairash Thajcayapong 1969-1974 Supervised by Prof Peter Rayner Retired, formerly Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand Wallace Hoff 1972-1973 Supervised by Prof Prof Peter Brandon

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