Ronan Farrell
RF Design, National University of Ireland Maynooth
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineerin at NUI Maynooth. Since 2005 I have been director of the Callan Institute. I am theme leader in two SFI funded centres: CTVR and the Strategic Cluster for Advanced Geotechnologies (StratAG). My personal research interests include circuit design, radio and wireless technologies and I have published over 60 peer reviewed book chapters, journal and conference publications, and filed a number of patents. I have a keen interest in the exploitation of research and I have been involved in two company spin-outs from NUI Maynooth
- Website
- http://imws.nuim.ie/research/index.php
- Contact
- rfarrell(at)eeng(dot)nuim(dot)ie
Active research topics and Collaborations
Sigma-delta driven digital Power Amplifiers (1 Post-doc, 1 PhD students) Digitally Enhanced Analog Circuits (1 Post-docs; 2 PhD student)
Smart City technologies (sensing and using data) (1 postdoc, 2 PhD students)
Research supervision:1 PhD and 11 M.Eng.Sc students graduated to date – 6 PhDs under supervision (or co-supervision), 2 due to graduate in 2010, Mentorship of 8 postdoctoral researchers (3 at present)
National and international collaborations: Chris Anderson (VT, USA); Georg Fischer Erlangen, GER), Mohammad Tahir (UET, Pakistan).