Director, Deputy Director & Co-PIs
Professor Linda Doyle - Director
Linda Doyle is an associate professor in Trinity College, University of Dublin in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. Prof. Doyle received her Ph.D. in 1996 and has been a faculty member since then. Professor Doyle is Director of CTVR. As well as directing the Centre, Prof. Doyle. manages one of the CTVR research groups and has a team 20 researchers focusing on wireless networking, cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, dynamic spectrum access, spectrum trading and spectrum regulation. Prof. Doyle is highly active in the field of cognitive radio. She was vice-chair of IEEE DySPAN 2007 which was hosted in Dublin. IEEE DySPAN is the premier conference in the area of dynamic spectrum access networks.
Professor Doyle is currently TPC Chair for the Globecom 2010 SAC on Cognitive Radio and Cognitive Networks. She is also vice-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks Prof. Doyle served as Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Cognitive Radio of Annals of Telecommunications 2009 and also for the Special Issue on Cognitive Radio of IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2007.
In 2009 Linda wrote a book on The Essentials of Cognitive Radio published by Cambridge University Press. She has published over a 150 papers in prominent internationally circulated journals. Prof. Doyle has also played a role in spectrum policy at a national level and has been involved with the Irish Department of Communications in writing a white paper on spectrum policy for Ireland. Prof. Doyle is on the OFCOM spectrum advisory board OSAB.
Dr. Jeff Punch – Deputy Director
Jeff Punch is currently Director of the Micro-Mechanical Engineering Group at the Stokes Institute, University of Limerick (UL), collaborating with the Institute's partners and clients on a range of research programmes. He has wide-ranging research interests in the analysis of micro-scale mechanical engineering phenomena within the application arenas of electronic and micro-electromechanical systems - with particular emphasis on thermal management and reliability physics. He has a strong track-record in governmental and industrial research programmes, and is currently supervising five doctoral students and mentoring three postdoctoral researchers.
He has authored or co-authored over 40 refereed publications and five patents, and has presented more than 50 invited talks on aspects of the thermal management and reliability of electronic systems at venues in Europe, USA, the Middle East, India and Asia-Pacific.
Dr Frank Peters - Co PI
Frank H. Peters is a member of the Tyndall National Institute and a Lecturer in the Physics Department at the University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Frank is interested in the research associated with the development and integration of photonics devices. He completed a Ph.D. from McMaster University, Canada where he studied the optical properties of telecom semiconductor diode lasers. In 1991, he worked as a Research Engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the U.S. working on Vertical Cavity Lasers and Modulators. From 1993 until 2001 he worked as a research scientist at Optical Concepts, W. L. Gore and Associates and Agilent Technologies developing and integrating photonic devices into datacom and telecom applications.
From 2001-2005 Frank worked at Infinera in Sunnyvale California, U.S.A. in the development of high speed photonic integrated circuits. He has authored more than 40 papers and holds 12 patents all concerned with thermal, optical, electrical and systems issues relating to the design and use of photonic devices.
Dr Ken Brown – Co PI
Ken Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University College Cork, and a member of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre. He has a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Glasgow, an MSc in Logic and Computation from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Engineering from the University of Bristol. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol and at Carnegie Mellon University. He was appointed as Lecturer in Computer Science at University of Aberdeen in 1995, and joined UCC in 2003.
His research is focused on intelligent decision support and optimisation, applied to resource allocation, scheduling, supply chains, networks and design and manufacturing, with a particular interest in uncertain, distributed and competitive domains. He has published over 40 refereed papers, and has collaborated extensively with industry, including LandRover, Digital/Compaq and Microsoft Research.
Dr. Ronan Farrell - Co PI
Ronan Farrell received his BE (Electronic Engineering) degree from University College Dublin in 1993 following which, he was employed as a control systems engineer by Zeneca Pharmaceuticals in England and the U.S.A. In 1995, Ronan Farrell returned to University College Dublin to work on a Ph.D. in the field of sigma-delta modulators for data converters in collaboration with Analog Devices, graduating in 1998. Upon graduation, Ronan joined Parthus Technologies in Dublin, a then recently founded integrated-circuit design company specialising in providing intellectual property in the mixed signal and wireless communications space. The projects Parthus undertook pushed the boundaries of the available technologies, requiring an emphasis on strong modelling skills, architectural analysis and circuit design.
In August 2000, Ronan left Parthus and joined NUI Maynooth in their newly founded Electronic Engineering Department where he has built up a Mixed Signal/RF systems research group, concentrating on Design and Test issues in the mixed signal and RF space.
Prof. Luiz DaSilva - Co PI
Luiz DaSilva currently holds the Stokes Professorship in Telecommunications in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. He has also been a faculty member in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech since 1998. Prof. DaSilva's research focuses on distributed and adaptive resource management in wireless networks, and in particular cognitive radio networks and the application of game theory to wireless networks. He is currently a principal investigator on research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, and the European Commission under Framework Programme 7. Recent research sponsors also include DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, Intel, and Microsoft Research.
He has authored over 80 refereed journal and conference papers and two books on wireless communications. Prof. DaSilva is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the ASEE and of ACM. In 2006, he was named a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech.
Prof. David Payne - Co PI
Dave Payne joined CTVR in Trinity College Dublin in February 2010. Before this he was a principal consultant to BT group on optical networks where responsible for strategic guidance and direction on optical network architectures to BT Group CTO and BT Openreach strategy. In the past number of years he has been the Senor Industrial Advisor at the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications at Swansea University where I provided network architecture expertise in order to establish collaborative links with BT Research. He has over 20 patents (several now lapsed) and over 60 publications (journal articles, electronics letters, optics letters, conference colloquium publications ∼25 invited papers, contributions to 7 books, two in progress)