| Date |
News Item |
| 28 April 2013 |
New EU FP7 award of €3,333,275
The Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems based in ACSE is pleased to announce the award of €3,333,275 from EU FP7 for the period June 2013-June 2016 for "Demonstration of methods and tools for the optimisation of operational reliability of large-scale industrial wind turbines-Optimus" by Z Q Lang, et al. |
| 23 April 2013 |
New £615,105 BBSRC award
Y Zheng, J Berwick, A J Kennerley, S A Billings, D Coca, E Milne, P Regreave have been awarded £615,105 from BBSRC for the period 1.05.2013 to 30.04.2016 for “Understanding neural excitation and inhibition: Implications for the interpretation of extracellular field potentials and neurovascular coupling”. |
| 5 April 2013 |
New award from the Royal Society and the National Science Foundation of China
We are pleased to announce the award of £12,000 from Royal Society and RMB 130,000 from National Science Foundation of China for the period 05.04.2013-04.04.2015 for "Structural damage evaluation using nonlinear Lamb wave and frequency analyses" by Z Q Lang |
| 1 April 2013 |
New award from The Ryder Briggs Charity
The Ryder Briggs Charity has made an award of £8,378 for the period 01.04.2013 to 30.03.2014 for “The thalamic clock and the cortical focus theory in childhood absence epilepsy—an insight with a new approach of quantitative EEG analysis in the time domain: the error reduction ratio method” by P G Sarrigiannis, Y Zhao, H L Wei, F He, S A Billings |
| 1 September 2012 |
£392k award from TSB
We are pleased to announce the award of £392,695 from TSB for the period 01.09.2012-31.08.2013 for "An integrated wayside condition monitoring system for axle bearing" by Z Q Lang, et al. |
| 30 July 2012 |
New £1.1m EPSRC award
We are pleased to announce the award of £1,175,282 by EPSRC for the period 30.07.2012-30.06.2016 for "Novel Sensing and Network for Intelligent Monitoring - Newton" by Z Q Lang, Gui Yun Tian, Jim Austin, Tony Dodd, Jeff Neasham, Z. Ding |
| 2012 |
UK-India Partnership UKIERI award
Awarded £20,400 from UK-India Partnership UKIERI for the period 2012 – 2013 for "Integrated sensing monitoring and healing for complex autonomous systems" by V Kadirkamanathan and S Pope |
| 2012 |
New $900k award from Human Frontier Science Program
An award of $900,000 has been made by the Human Frontier Science Program for "Stem Cell Dynamics in Time and Space" by D Coca et al. |
| November 2011 |
EPSRC KTA award
Z Q Lang and Y Zhang have been awarded £74,022 from EPSRC KTA for the period November 2011-September 2012 for "Digital stereo Imaging and signal processing based condition monitoring technology for wind turbine blades" |
| 2011 |
Unilever Research Grant
R Gross and V Kadirkamanathan have been awarded £62,414 from Unilever Research Grant for the period 2011 – 2012 for "Nonlinear signal processing for time series classification" |
| 2011 |
New €450k EU-FP7 Grant
We are pleased to announce the award of €452,000 (PI) from EU-FP7 for the period 2011 – 2012 for "SEMEP: Search for electro-magnetic earthquake precursors" by M Balikhin, V Kadirkamanathan, et al. |
| 2011 |
BAE Systems Research Grant
A BAE Systems Research Grant of £51,895 has been awarded for "Decision support tool in FLAME GPU" by Paul Richmond, V Kadirkamanathan |
| 02 January 2011 |
New award from NERC
The Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems based in ACSE is pleased to announce that Professor Bigg, Dr Hanna, Professor Kadirkamanthan and Professor Billings have been awarded £311,959 from NERC for 'A century of variability in Greenland melting and iceberg calving'. |
| 9 August 2010 |
New award from BBSRC
The Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems based in ACSE is pleased to announce that Dr Coca, Dr Juusola and Professor Billings have been awarded £532,115 from BBSRC for 'Reverse Engineering Drosophila's Retinal Networks'. |
| 30 May 2010 |
New Royal Society award
Z Q Lang has been awarded £11,190 from Royal Society for the period 30.05.2010-31.12.2012 for "Experimental study of beneficial effect of nonlinear damping on vibration control" |
| 4 January 2010 |
£1.2 million award from EPSRC
The Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering is pleased to announce that Professor S A Billings, Professor V Kadirkamanathan, Dr Z Q Lang, Dr D Coca, Professor M Balikhin and Dr H L Wei have been awarded £1.2 million from EPSRC for the renewal of their existing Platform Grant from 2010 to 2015 for the project 'System Identification and Information Processing for Complex Systems'.
The grant will allow a continuation of investigations into system identification and analysis methods for complex systems focussed on applications in stem cell dynamics, Drosophila visual processing, diffuse optical tomography of brain, reaction diffusion and crystal growth processes, and the modelling of solar terrestrial systems. |
| 2 January 2010 |
£499,542 award from EPSRC
The Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems based in ACSE is pleased to announce the award of £499,542 from EPSRC for the period 2.01.2010 to 1.06.2014 for “Spatio-Temporal Systems Estimation, Modelling, and Analysis” by S A Billings, D Coca. |
| 1 January 2010 |
New UK Northern Wind Innovation Program award
An award of £80,664 has been made by the UK Northern Wind Innovation Program (NWIP) for the period 01.01.2010-31.03.2011 for "Novel Integrated Condition Monitoring System for Wind Turbine Components" by Z Q Lang, Rob Dwyer-Joyce, Matt Mathew |
| 2009 |
MRC Fellowship award
An award of £109,000 from MRC Fellowship for the period 2009-2010 has been made for “Stem cell dynamics: exploration of the stem cell attractor landscape” by D Coca |
| 2009 |
Pump-Priming award
D Coca has been awarded £3,800 for "Pump-Priming Project: Synthesis of model based controllers based on learning strategies” |
| 12 August 2008 |
€1.95 million award from European Research Council
The Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems based in ACSE is pleased to announce that Steve Billings has been awarded Euros 1.95 million for an Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for 'Nonlinear System Identification and Analysis in the Time, Frequency, and spatio-Temporal Domains'. This new grant will provide support for four new RA's and 3 new RS's over the five year period 2009-2014. The new award adds to Steve Billings grant capture of £3.7 million since 2005.
More news about the award |
| 25 June 2008 |
Los Alamos and UCSD visit
Dr Z Q Lang recently visited the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in USA for three weeks. During this visit, in collaboration with the scientists at LANL and UCSD, Dr Lang conducted a wide range of experimental work and studied the application of fault detection and location techniques developed at Sheffield to multi-degree-of-freedom structural systems. |
| 06 May 2008 |
Most Highly Cited
We are pleased to announce that based on the H-index ranking of the world's most highly cited engineers S A Billings is ranked eleventh in Europe. The H-index measures the importance, significance and impact of a scientist's cumulative research contribution. For more information, and to view the list of the world's most highly cited researchers, follow the link below:
The world's most highly cited researchers' website |
| 2008 |
BBSRC award
Awarded £135,520 from BBSRC for the period 2008-2011 for “Microbial applications to tissue engineering: an examplar of synthetic biology” by D Coca et al |
| 29 November 2007 |
Venus Express mission
Sheffield student has unique role in Venus Express mission |
| 3-8 November 2007 |
Society for Neuroscience
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 2007, San Diego:
The neural imaging team present their work at the SfN conference. |
| 22 Oct 2007 |
New grant award
We are pleased to announce the award of a new grant of just under £400K from EPSRC entitled New Generation Damping Technologies by Z Q Lang, S A Billings, G R Tomlinson. |
| 29 June 2007 |
EPSRC / GSK Grant
The EPSRC / GSK Grant of £245,682 from for the period 2006 – 2010 for "Array design for lead optimisation in pharmaceutical research" by VK, Val Gillet, Peter Willett, Guido Sanguinetti comes to the Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems. |
| 29 June 2007 |
Announcing the Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems |
