Externally Funded Research in Space and Artificial Intelligence
23 selected projects · funded by UKRI, the European Commission, ESA, UK Space Agency, NHS, Innovate UK, ISSI, the British Council and the Indian Space Research Organisation
Space
Space weather, solar physics, satellite systems and satellite communications.
Space weather and solar research
ESA
Solar Events Prediction system For Space LAunch Risk Estimation
European Space Agency funded project, in collaboration with the Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) and the University of Malaga (Spain).
EU FP7
First European Comprehensive SOLar Irradiance Data exploitation
R. Qahwaji (WP leader). €2M distributed among 10 partners.
Mining and Exploiting the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Data in Europe
Funded by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland. Véronique Delouille, Rami Qahwaji, Frédéric Auchère, Thierry Dudok de Wit, Peter Gallagher, Jean-François Hochedez, Davina Innes, Matthieu Kretzschmar, Nicolas Labrosse, Petrus Martens, Susanna Parenti, Karel Schrijver, Robert Walsh.
Image Processing, Machine Learning and Geometric Modelling for the 3D Representation of Solar Features
EPSRC (EP/F022948/1). R. Qahwaji, S. Ipson and H. Ugail.
Image Processing & Machine Learning Techniques for Short-term Prediction of Solar Activity
EPSRC (GR/T17588/01). R. Qahwaji.
Satellite systems and communications
UK-Japan Digital Annealer AI for Sustainable Space Exploitation
International Bilateral Fund (IBF). Ifiok Otung (PI), Rami Qahwaji, Viktor Doychinov and Hassan Ugail.
Frequency Selectivity in Phase-only Beamformed User Terminal
Effect of beam squinting in direct radiating array antennas for DVB-S2x systems, with zero-forcing and MMSE equalizers to compensate for it. Raed Abd-Alhameed and Fun Hu.
SITARA: Smart Grids to harness Satellite based Virtual Power Plants for Energy Sustainability
Bradford-led project using satellite communications and intelligent control to make smart grids more reliable and efficient. With North Carolina State University (US) and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India). Prashant Pillai, Haile Rajmani and Fun Hu.
Inmarsat BGAN: Broadband Global Area Network
Technologies for new multicast services, with a prototype to validate the concepts. Bradford designed and integrated a real-time radio resource management signalling framework. Fun Hu and Pauline Chan.
SatNEx: Satellite Network of Excellence
European virtual centre of excellence in satellite communications, funded by the European Commission and later by ESA. Bradford was one of three founding members. Fun Hu and Ray Sheriff.
Network Configuration Study for Geo-Mobile Applications
Feasibility study for the Indian Space Research Organisation on how geostationary satellite payload complexity affects mobile services, and on satellite-terrestrial network integration. Ray Sheriff and Fun Hu.
SUITED: Multisegment System for Broadband Ubiquitous Access to Internet Services and Demonstrator
Integration of satellite (Ka-band) and terrestrial mobile networks to support mobile IP services. Ray Sheriff and Fun Hu.
ABATE: ACTS Broadband Aeronautical Terminal Experiment
Aeronautical satellite communications for broadband connectivity, with in-flight demonstrations at K and Ka bands. Ray Sheriff and Fun Hu.
SECRET: SEcure network Coding for Reduced Energy nexT generation mobile small cells
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, Euro 3.3M total. Lead: Prof. Raed Abd-Alhameed. Bradford team: Prof Rami Qahwaji, Dr James M Noras and Dr Stephen MR Jones.
Artificial Intelligence
AI and visual computing for healthcare, security, networks and the web.
AI for healthcare
Low-cost, Lightweight Devices for Healthcare Monitoring using AI
Knowledge Transfer Partnership funded by Innovate UK, in collaboration with Heales Innovation (industrial partner). Rami Qahwaji (PI), Ben Whiteside, Raed Abd-Alhameed and Zied Mnasri.
ROBUST: FractuRe Orthopaedic Rehabilitation: Ubiquitous eHealth Solution
Research & Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE). Grant agreement ID: 101086492. 5 European partners. Raed Abd-Alhameed, John Buckley, Rami Qahwaji and Maryann Hardy.
UKRI
CustomLensAI: AI for Improved Cataract Surgery
UK Research and Innovation Grant, 3-year project.
Development of Visual Computing and AI Technologies to Diagnose Movement Disorders Associated with Parkinson’s Disease
Research Development Fund Grant.
Efficient 3D Corneal Modelling
NHS National Innovation Centre grant, 4 years.
AI for security, networks and the web
eBorder: Secure and Wireless Multimodal Biometric Scanning Device for Passenger Verification Targeting Land and Sea Border Control
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange. Call: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019. 5 European partners. Raed Abd-Alhameed, Rami Qahwaji and Irfan Awan.
COMET: Future Cockpit Network Communications Environment Testing
Next-generation aeronautical data link using Software Defined Networking. Bradford leads the aircraft communications system design and an open-source testbed for AI-based multi-link selection. Fun Hu, Muhammad Ali and Jian-Ping Li.
SINAPSE: Software Defined Networking Architecture augmented with AI to improve Aeronautical Communications Performance, Security and Efficiency
AI to predict and prevent service outages and protect aeronautical networks against digital attacks. Bradford leads the cyber security work package, using federated learning. Fun Hu, Muhammad Ali and Jian-Ping Li.
Classification of Web Contents using Machine Learning
Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Exa Networks. Funded by Innovate UK and Exa Networks Ltd.