News Stories

The latest news stories from Electronic Engineering, it's centres and the ATI are shown below:


FEPS Postgraduate Research Student of the Year - 2012

The Head of EE, Professor Josef Kittler, congratulated ATI PhD student, Milan Milosevic on being selected as the FEPS winner of the University Postgraduate Research Student of the Year 2012 competition for his impressive research achievements during his PhD studies.


Recruitment of New Chairs within the Department

The Department is currently recruiting for the following Chair positions:


Recruiting a new Chair in Photonics

The Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) is seeking to expand its activity in Photonics and is looking for an individual with a strong international reputation in photonics in topics ranging from fundamental studies of light-matter interactions, material and device physics through to photonics systems for applications including energy, communications, the life-sciences and beyond.


Recruiting a new Chair in Solar Energy

Sitting within the Advanced Technology Institute this appointment will lead an internationally recognised research programme on nano-engineered photovoltaic solar cell technologies (e.g. devices based on organics, hybrids, fullerene derivatives or semiconducting nanoparticles).


CVSSP receives Honorable mention for Best Paper Award ACM SIGGRAPH I3D 2012

Congratulations to Dan Casas, Margara Tejera, Jean-Yves Guillemaut and Adrian Hilton who received the "Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award" at the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium in Interactive 3D Graphics and Games which was held in early March in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California .

I3D is the leading conference for real time 3D computer graphics and human interaction http://graphics.ics.uci.edu/I3D2012/


Seeing Double? Prof Adrian Hilton – Invited Speaker at the Royal Society

As the graphics in computer games and films improve, what are the limitations when creating human figures? Why does our brain struggle to accept these representations as genuine human forms? Professor Adrian Hilton, a computer scientist and Dr Kristine Krug, a neuroscientist, will delve deeper into the challenges faced when generating computer models of humans.  

This event is part of a series of the Café Scientifique events throughout the year, aiming to provide a forum for the debate of scientific ideas. It takes place on Monday 26 March (6.30 to 8.00 pm) at the Royal Society in London. For more information, please visit

http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/seeing-double/


PhD Studentships fully funded - Starting in October 2012

The Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing is seeking to recruit outstanding individuals for fully funded PhD studentships starting in October 2012. Funding is available for up to 6 PhD studentships in different areas.


IBC Welcomes New Staff

Three new members of staff at the Ion Beam Centre