EUR. ING. Associate Professor Ian McLoughlin BENG PHD CENG MIET SRMIEEE
mcloughlin <at>
ntu.edu.sg
Tel: +65 6790 6207
Fax: +65 6792 6559
Research
Current PhD students
1. Hamid Reza Sharifzadeh [Jan 2007] – vocal processing and interaction
2. Shiva Prakash Premananda [Jan 2007] – advanced modulation techniques for MIMO systems
3. Farzaneh Ahmadi [July 2007] – speech replacement therapy for voice-loss patients
4. Le Thanh Hai [July 2008] – polarimetric synthetic aperture radar signal processing and interpretation
5. Erwin Anggadjaja [July 2008] – embedded computation (exact area TBD)
(6. Nguyen Quang Huy [to be Jan 2009] – hardware for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar processing)
Teaching
Secure Embedded Systems (ES6190)
Embedded Computer Architecture (ES6191)
Embedded Operating Systems (ES6192)
Computer Peripherals (old stuff)
Computer Architecture (old stuff)
Personal
Where have I worked (20 years over three continents)
Where have I travelled (four continents, but where do I want to go next?)
What do I believe in (why am I here?)
Qualifications
2005 - winner (with my team) of the inaugral IEE Innovation in Engineering Award (for product design)
2005 - VIP award (Visiting Industry Professional) from the NZ Government
2003 - winner of the Steven Bly award (for service to other engineers)
1998 - achieved Chartered Engineer status, UK Engineering Council
1997 - PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham
1991 - BEng (hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham
'O' levels and 'A' levels from Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth, Birmingham
Funding
2009 – one of 8 PIs on the EOS (Earth Observatory Singapore), $150 million from NRF, Singapore (shared with Forest Tan Su Lim and Steven Wong Kai Juan, both from SCE)
2008 – PI for Multi-frequency polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sensing, ~$244k total, AcRF
2008 – PI for Bionic Voice project, $180k from National Medical Research Council
2008 – PI for speech and audio processing – $60k manpower award
2007 – PI for reliable and reconfigurable computing cluster - $50k on URC startup grant
2003 – CoPI (Principal Engineer) for the team in Tait Electronics looking at MIMO communications – approx $3m
2001 – PI for communications research, NZ Government funding under a strategic TIF award - $226k
2000 – CoPI in Tait Electronics on research into MIMO communications – approx. $1.2m
1999 - PI for hardware for audio steganography - $33k from AcRF
Major collaborations
EADS Innovation Works, Singapore - collaborating on projects involving polarimetric synthetic aperture radar and similar embedded/communications themes with Dr Timo Bretschneider. This includes the contribution of the AcRF funding (shown above), one PhD student, one project officer, one MSc student and two final year project students.
Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore - co-leader of the RMMA (Resource Mapping for Multiple Architectures) strand of work under the virtual NTU-IHPC lab on Emerging Hybrid High-Performance Computing Techniques. This includes the contribution of one PhD student and one MSc student currently.
Tait Electronics Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand - we have a loan space-time wireless research platform from Tait, and are working on several MIMO and modulation-related work themes in conjunction with Dr Kishore Mehrotra of MIMOMax Ltd (formerly Tait Electronics Group Research). This involes the contribution of one shared PhD student currently.
The University of Birmingham, England - working closely with Dr H. Ghafouri-Shiraz of the School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering on simulations of wireless system modulation, particularly OFDM-related techniques. This was funded in part by the Biritish Council, and involves the efforts of one shared PhD student currenty.
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (still under negotiation) - as the co-ordinator of NTU's contribution to the Future Cities research theme of this forthcoming three-way collaboration between NTU, NUS and ETH: with particular interest in computation, and the application of this to territorial organisation.
Kings' College, London - collaborating with honorary specialist registrar Dr Rose Ngu of King's Dental Institute and Guy's Hospital. This is funded under an NMRC development grant and includes the efforts of two PhD students (one part time Research Associate) currently.
Alexandra Hospital, Singapore and Chee ENT Surgery, Singapore - also on the above NMRC-funded project.
Links
Mission Technologies Ltd - the charity partly run by me
Lintech - my original consultancy business
The Anglican Health Service of Papua New Guinea
St Christophers Church, Avonhead, Christchuch, New Zealand
Christchurch Chinese Church, Bryndwr, Christchurch, New Zealand
Mount Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church, West Coast, Singapore