| Research Interests: | | Professor John McCanny is an international authority in the design of silicon integrated circuits for Digital Signal Processing, having made many pioneering contributions to this field.
He co-founded two successful high technology companies, Audio Processing Technology Ltd., and Amphion Semiconductor Ltd, a leading supplier of System-on-Chip cores for video compression (now part of Entropic Communications Inc.)
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School & University
Responsibilities: | |
- Director of the Institute of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Principal Investigator, Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT - www.csit.qub.ac.uk)
- Professor of Microelectronics Engineering
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| External Activities: | |
- Member of Council, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2008-11
- Member of International Committee, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2009-12
- Royal Society Sectional Committee 4 2004-6, Chair 2005, 2006 (Election to Fellowship - Engineering)
- Board Member Ireland's Tyndall National ICT Institute 2004-
- Member International Advisory Board, the German) "Excellence Initiative" Centre for Ultra High Speed Mobile Information and Communication, UMIC, the University of Aachen, 2007-
- Member of UK EPSRC's ICT Strategic Advisory Team, 2006-11
- UK HEFCE, 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, member sub-panel 24, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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