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Yiqun Zhu

Assistant Professor, MSc Course Director and MSc Project Coordinator, Faculty of Engineering

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Biography

Yiqun Zhu received BEng and MSc from Beihang University, Beijing, China, 1988 and 1991, respectively. He then worked in a key DSP research & development group, China Space Corporation, China.

From 1999 to 2003, he was doing his PhD research on electronic systems design in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the University of Sheffield, UK. After obtaining his PhD degree, he was working as a senior Research & Development engineer for Dwight Cavendish Systems, UK, until joining Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Nottingham as a senior research fellow in 2004.

In 2011, he was appointed as an assistant professor within Faculty of Engineering, the University of Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

  • Digital system design with VHDL/FPGA
  • Application specific complex algorithm acceleration
  • Reconfigurable FPGA based embedded system design
  • High-speed multi-layer PCB board design

Teaching Summary

HDL for Programmable Devices (Level 4) (20 credits)

Integrated Circuits and Systems (Level 3) (20 credits)

Research Summary

FPGA based GNSS Receiver for multiple satellite constellations Real-time SIFT based image matching system using an FPGA for the purpose of machine vision Configurable ELT Processor for… read more

Current Research

  • FPGA based GNSS Receiver for multiple satellite constellations
  • Real-time SIFT based image matching system using an FPGA for the purpose of machine vision
  • Configurable ELT Processor for Wavelet OFDM for future communication systems
  • FPGA based laser Doppler blood flow imaging

Past Research

Communication Channel Coding

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