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Dr.
Kun Yang
Lecturer
National Contact Point
University of Essex
Electronic Systems Engineering
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex, CO4 3SQ
UK
T. : +44-(0)7745-117038
T. :
+44 01206 873333 ?
Fax:
+44 01206 872900 ?
http://www.essex.ac.uk
kunyang@essex.ac.uk
kyang@ee.ucl.ac.uk
University
of Essex (UoE) is one of the premier universities in the United Kingdom, with a
strong emphasis on research and industry linkage. It has 6,686 students, about
1/3 of these within the Graduate School, covering the Humanities, Social
Sciences and Science and Engineering.
The
University is an international community with students from more than 125
countries. In recent assessments Essex has regularly ranked among the top twelve
UK universities for the quality of its research, with many of its departments
rated as 'outstanding' by international standards. The CARiMAN project activity
will be carried out in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (ESE-UoE).
ESE-UoE
is one of the top rated Electrical Engineering departments in the UK. The
department is strongly focused on research across a broad front: RF Engineering
and Propagation, Opto-electronics and Optical Networks, Audio and Video
Networking, multimedia architecture, and telecommunications and pervasive
networking. In the area of communications research the department is involved
from the lowest layers of radio, electrical and optical coding and transmission
through routing and resource control at the network layer up to network, service
and business management of communications networks. The department has been and
continues to be involved in research funded by a number of sources: direct
industrial funding, UK Government and European research programmes. The
department is connected to the BT LEARNET ATM and IP network and many of our
staff involved in the @Adastral Park project, a joint venture with the telecom
industry aimed at promoting the industrialisation of research results. The
participation in the projects has yielded a number of concrete results, through
which University of Essex has gained its worldwide reputation.
As
a main participant of CARiMan, apart from the essential project management work,
UoE will be working in most of the WPs and contributing to most of the
milestones and deliverables, especially in the areas of network and
communication oriented work. We are particularly interested in
B.4.3:
Activities to spread excellence
University
of Essex (UoE) is one of the premier universities in the United Kingdom, with a
strong emphasis on research and industry linkage. Its Department of Electronic
Systems Engineering (ESE-UoE) is one of the top rated Electrical Engineering
departments in the UK. The department is strongly focused on research across a
broad front covering all levels of network. The department has been and
continues to be involved in research funded by a number of sources including EU.
The participation in the projects has yielded a number of concrete results,
through which University of Essex has gained its worldwide reputation.
Kun
Yang
received his PhD in distributed artificial intelligence in 1999 from Jilin
University. His MSc and BE degrees were also from Jilin University in the field
of distributed system and computer science. Before he joined in Univ. of Essex
as an academic staff, he was working as a senior research fellow in Department
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College London. He was/is
actively involved in many EU IST projects, such as MANTRIP, FAIN, CONTEXT in a
wide area of networking, network and service management. He has published more
than 15 journal papers and books. He is a member of IEEE and member of IEE and
is TPC member of several international conferences.
Ian
Henning: Prof.
Ian Henning has wide
experience within a research context across the field of Physics, Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. He
began his research career in 1976 at Cardiff University working with
semiconductor devices and materials. On
moving to BT in 1980 he built a III-V optoelectronic device characterisation
capability from which came a number of world leading research outputs in terms
of publications and devices. In
1994 he took a radical shift in direction to lead a team which built a
state-of-the-art multi-service network infrastructure to provide a research
platform for applications and services. Part
of this was the demonstration within BT of IP as a serious candidate for
multi-service networking. This
involved challenging the then current wisdom in areas like telephony and video.
Work included demonstrations of the capabilities of a range of new
protocols such as PIM and IPv6. Over
the next 5 years he took on a more senior role which involved an expansion of
technical responsibilities to include research in areas such as network
management (OpenSignalling, Open Switch architectures, ATM performance
management), distributed systems technology, (CORBA performance management,
Application Layer Active Networking), early work on e-business (analysis to
define system boundaries & APIs), IP OSS (management over multi-layered
networks, charging, processes etc), Enterprise modelling, advanced process
engineering methodologies such as Lean Engineering and the incorporation of
softer aspects such as culture, motivation and rewards, (including measures),
the use of Intelligent Agents in business systems and COINs (Community of
Interest Networks). He was BT
manager for numerous University Research contracts including High Performance
Interactive Conferencing and Information Distribution (HICID), High-quality
Resilient Video over Existing Networks (HIGHERVIEW), Joint Audio and Video
Internet Coding (JAVIC) and Remote Language Teaching (ReLaTe).
He has published 62 refereed journal papers, made presentation at
numerous national and international conference, co-authored 2 books, contributed
to a third, and has been co-inventor on 8 patents.
As a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor with Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Sheffield University, he was involved
in promoting multi-disciplinary teaching in the principles of Engineering
Design. Ian joined University of
Essex in February 2002 as a Professor in Department of Electronic Systems
Engineering.
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