The School of Engineering of the University of Glasgow is seeking a highly motivated graduate to undertake an exciting 4-year PhD project entitled “Analog Neuromorphic Signal Processing IC for Wearable Health Sensors” within the Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering Division.
This project will engineer a low-power wearable device consists of electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors with on-chip neuromorphic sensing processor. Given the potential of the ECG+PPG system with machine learning, the main concerns are the power, accuracy and computing efficiency. Such novel multi-sensory architecture usually requires more power in the wearable computing unit. Traditional solutions mostly pursued the trade-off between power duration and computing capability. In this project, we proposed a neuromorphic processor for cognitively processing the fusing PPG and ECG signal in real-time. Based on our existing experience on sensor, microelectronic design and neuromorphic processor, this project aims to remove energy-hungry digital components and use fully analogue neuromorphic building blocks instead. The expected processor will significantly reduce the power and large volumes of noisy and largely redundant spatiotemporal data as well as increase speed of biomedical wearable devices.
This project is based on an iCASE PhD studentship at the University of Glasgow. We have a strong collaboration with our industrial partner, with excellent design and fabrication capabilities. Through this collaboration, we are in a unique position to design and develop a neuromorphic processor for the next generation wearable devices.
The ideal candidate will have good analogue circuit design skills and experience in Cadence, and MATLAB/Pyhton. Knowledge of PCB design and characterization are desirable.
The student will be a part of the Microelectronics Lab (www.melabresearch.com) in the University of Glasgow. The student will have the opportunity to undertake an internship with leading global industrial and academic partners.
How To Apply
Application for this scholarship is made by using the online system at the following link for admission as a postgraduate research student to the admission team in the Recruitment and International Office:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/opportunities/howtoapplyforaresearchdegree/
It should be noted that this application is to gain admission to our PGR programme with the decision on this being based on your academic achievements, and an offer of admission may be sent out before a decision on this Scholarship is made. Candidates applying for this Scholarship will have their applications further vetted as to acceptability to this Scholarship and will most likely have an interview/discussion with the supervisor before any decision is made
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