People – Artificial Intelligence and Pervasive Systems

Lab Researchers

Staff	Role
Omar Ghazal	PhD Researcher, working on Mixed-Signal AI Hardware Design.
Bob Pattison	Researcher, working on machine learning using Tsetlin Machine principles
Ivan Shmarov	(Graduated) worked on Power Infused AI Systems, together with Dr Pablo Docampo (Glasgow) and Dr Thomas Billam (Newcastle)
Komal Krishnamurthy	PhD Researcher, working on Analogue-Asynchronous Co-design for Machine Learning Systems
Tain Lan	PhD Researcher, working on Analogue Circuit Design Methods
Svein Anders Tunheim	PhD Researcher (based primarily in University of Agder), working on scalable AI hardware architectures.
Naveed Saba	PhD Researcher (primary supervisor Dr Annette Pantall), working on wearable systems for muscle health and analysis.
Rishad Shafik	Reader, Principal Investigator
Alex Chan	Research Associate, SONNETS programme, Machine Learning for Event-Triggered Systems
Tousif Rahman	Research Associate, SONNETS programme, Machine Learning for Event-Triggered Systems
Olga Tarasyuk	Visiting Researcher, working on visualisation of explainable AI algorithms and systems
Marcos Sartori	Research Associate, ESTEEM project, Flexible Machine Learning Integrated Circuit Design
Shengyu Duan	Research Associate, ESTEEM project, Flexible Machine Learning Integrated Circuit Design
Congyi Xu	PhD Student, working on event-triggered HW design
Yushu Qin	PhD student, working on flexible IC design
Jesse Ojukwu	PhD student, working on AI-enabled Digital Twinning Systems
Yujin Zhang	Researcher, working on IC Design
Gang Mao	PhD Researcher, working on Asycnronous Machine Learning Hardware Design

Current MSc and Undergraduate Project Students

Pavan Ambrekar is an MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating verification and validation architecture for AI hardware.
Srikanth Pitta is an MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating audio wearable design using Learning Automata based AI hardware.
Kaiyun Chen is an MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating mixed signal memristor-based approximate arithmetic design.
Zheyuan Xu is an MSc student from our MSc Microelectronics cohort. He is currently investigating energy harvesting and management for solar-powered circuits.
Eileen Li is an MSc student from our Biomedical Stream. She is currently studying the use of AI for detecting epileptic seizures.
Ahmed Eldahesh is an MSc student from our MSc Embedded Systems and IoT cohort. He is currently studying low-power data encoding methods for Learning Automata based AI hardware.

Lab Alumni

Mohammed A. N. Al-hayanni was a PhD student (15-19) — currently working as an academic in Iraq.
Issa Qiqieh was a PhD student (14-18) — currently working as an academic in Jordan.
Francesco Mazzei was an MS intern — currently working in Manchester in an SME.
Ms Ö. Zulal Tanrıvermiş was an Erasmus+ intern — currently studying further in Turkey.
Matt Travers was an MEng student in 2015-2016 academic year — currently working in a finance investment company.
Ahmed Khadim was an MSc student in 2015-2016 academic year — currently an academic of a university in Iraq.
Joshua Da Costa was a Stage 3 BEng project student, who is currently working in banking sector.
Harry Snell was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying further.
Dainius Jenkus was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying for PhD in the lab.
Joe Scott was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying for PhD in Newcastle.
Joel Holland was a Stage 3 BEng project student — currently studying for PhD in Newcastle.
Danny Harris was a Stage 3 BEng student, who studied energy efficiency of multi-layered AI hardware.
Luke Waller was a Stage 4 Industrial Intern, who studied temporal computing methods for AI hardware.

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