Profile
Dr Paul Anthony Haigh is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Networks & Systems within the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London.
Before joining QMUL, Paul spent several years in industry, where he was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs (NJ, USA), and held posts at other institutions including Toshiba’s Quantum Technology laboratories (Cambridge, UK). Prior to this, Paul was a Lecturer in Communications & Signal Processing at Newcastle University, and held post-doctoral positions at University College London and the University of Bristol. Paul obtained his PhD in 2014 from Northumbria University, and was a Marie Curie Fellow at CERN from 2010-11.
Paul’s Google Scholar can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b5R83vwAAAAJ&hl=en
Research
Research Interests:
Paul’s research interests are broad but mainly focus on several areas, including digital signal processing and filter design, advanced modulation, free-space optics, visible light communications, fibre optic links, wireless communications, heterogeneous network integration and optical sensing in fibre and free-space.
He is always looking for motivated students and researchers who are curious and want to think differently to solve real problems. If that is you, please get in touch by email.
Previous Grants:
- A New Approach to VLC System Design with Applied Machine Learning (PROCEEDING), Principal Investigator, EPSRC New Investigator Award, £442k.
- The UK Programmable Fixed and Mobile Internet Infrastructure (INITIATE), Researcher Co-Investigator, EPSRC RIIE, £3.6M.
- Multifunctional Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes with Visible Light Communications, EPSRC Standard Mode, £1M.
Part of the Networks Group, Communications Systems Research Group.
Publications
Published book: Visible Light: Data Communications and Applications, IoP, 2020. https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-1680-4
Public Engagement
- Senior Member, IEEE
- Marie Curie Alumni Assocation