Professor Eddie Ball
MEng
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (2021-2028)
+44 114 222 5839
Full contact details
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
葫芦影业
S1 3JD
- Profile
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I am a Reader in RF Engineering, in the Communications Research Group.
Prior to starting at 葫芦影业 in 2015, my career has been as a practising RF Engineer in industry:-
- Tunstall Healthcare Ltd (Principal RF Engineer & Radio System Architect) 2011-2015
- Cambridge Consultants Ltd (Principal RF Engineer, in Wireless Business Unit) 1996 - 2011
My industrial expertise is in building innovative, bespoke, wireless systems that require a balanced and holistic view of RF / Digital / DSP / Protocol aspects to achieve best partitioning for performance vs cost trade-off. I am experienced in adapting COTS radio protocols and creating bespoke protocols.
I am particularly experienced and passionate about hardware design, for both high volume and low volume manufacture.
My reach extends from the pre-specification creation process, through all theoretical aspects of RF design, to the practical lab bench development and field test; all core to the creation of a mass producible item. I鈥檓 also experienced at talent identification and selection for developing high capability teams.
- Qualifications
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- Ph.D (University of 葫芦影业 2024)
- M.Eng (University of York 1996, 1st class)
- Chartered Engineer
- Research interests
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My industrial expertise and academic research interests span 3 broad, overlapping themes:-
- Novel RF circuit design
- Novel RF system design, including DSP and Software Defined Radio
- Novel applications of RF and radio technology (including non-communications applications)
I am investigating new fields of radio transceiver design, applied to modern commercial & industrial applications for:-
- Future IoT radios
- Millimetre wavelength radios
- RF MMIC and RF SiGe design
If you are a researcher looking to work in areas related to these fields, please contact me.
If you are an industrial organisation with desire to better exploit these fields, or address existing complex technical issues, please contact me.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 1-8.
- . IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, PP(99), 1-12.
- . IEEE Access, 1-1.
- . IEEE Access, 1-1.
- . IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, 1-1.
- . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 1-1.
- . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 1-1.
- . IEEE Access, 1-1.
- . Computer Networks, 217.
- . Electronics, 11(16).
- . IEEE Access, 10, 18583-18595.
- . IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- . IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
- . IEEE Sensors Journal.
- . IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- . IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation.
- . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
- . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
- . Sensors, 24(2), 321-321.
- . Sensors, 23(24), 9628-9628.
- A tractable stochastic geometry model of coverage and an approach to energy efficiency estimation in LPWAN networks. International Journal of Sensor Networks.
- . IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation.
- Automatic Modulation Classification Using Techniques from Image Classification. IET Communications.
Chapters
- , Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (pp. 960-967). Springer Nature Switzerland
Conference proceedings papers
- . 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and INC/USNC鈥怳RSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/INC-USNC-URSI) (pp 189-190), 14 July 2024 - 19 July 2024.
- . 2023 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA), 15 November 2023 - 17 November 2023.
- . 2023 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA), 15 November 2023 - 17 November 2023.
- . 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 26 March 2023 - 31 March 2023.
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- An Investigation into the Isolation and Bandwidth Characteristics of X-Band Chireix Power Amplifier
Combiners. ICAMT 2022: XVI(1307-6892) (pp 18-21). Online, 9 December 2022 - 10 December 2022.
- . 2022 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 30 November 2022 - 2 December 2022.
- . 2021 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA), 14 June 2021 - 18 June 2021.
- Ethereum Blockchain for Securing the Internet of Things: Practical Implementation and Performance Evaluation. Cyber Science: Cyber Situational Awareness for Predictive Insight and Deep Learning 2019 (pp 81-85). United Kingdom, 3 June 2019 - 4 June 2019.
- . 2018 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM) (pp 84-88), 8 July 2018 - 11 July 2018.
- Highly portable software defined radio test bed for dual band propagation studies. IET Conference Publications, Vol. 2018(CP746)
- . IET Digital Library, 13 November 2017 - 14 November 2017.
- Antenna Beam Steering Without Phase Shifters 鈥 an 鈥極ld鈥 Technique Revisited. Proceedings of Automated RF & Microwave Measurement Society (ARMMS), 13 November 2017 - 14 November 2017.
- . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 242 (pp 80-85). Netherlands
- . Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC 2017)
- . IEE Proceedings - Communications, Vol. 150(4) (pp 253-253)
- The Time Modulated Array for Channel Sounding Measurements 鈥 Concept and Initial Field Tests. 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
- Subsampling Time-Modulated Array for Reduced Hardware down Conversion and Beamforming. Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 18 March 2024 - 22 March 2024.
- Antenna Array and GaAs Phase Shifter MMIC for Millimeter Wave Beamforming - Co-Simulation and Measurements. Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 18 March 2024 - 22 March 2024.
- Discrete Tuned Millimeter Wave SIW Resonators in GaAs and on PCB. German Microwave Conference 2024, 11 March 2024 - 13 March 2024.
- Design and Measurement of a GaAs MMIC for use in a 73 GHz Time Modulated Array. IEEE International Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (IEEE CAMA)
- Wireless as Enabler of Innovation in 21st Century Health and Social Care. AAATE 2017 Conference Proceedings, 11 September 2017 - 15 September 2017.
- A Secure Distributed Blockchain Platform for Use in AI-Enabled IoT Applications. 2020 IEEE Cloud summit, 21 October 2020 - 22 October 2020.
- Investigation into Series-Fed Microstrip Patch Arrays at 26 GHz, 28 GHz and 48 GHz 鈥 Design, Simulation and Prototype Tests. 2021 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems. Texas, 18 May 2021 - 20 May 2021.
- Investigation into the Relationship Between Conversion Gain, Local Oscillator Drive Level and DC Bias in a SiGe Transistor Transconductance Modulated Mixer at 24-28 GHz. 2021 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems. Texas, 18 May 2021 - 20 May 2021.
- Automatic Modulation Classification Based on Machine Learning. Mechanisms and Machine Science
- . IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 1-8.
- Research group
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Electromagnetics, Wireless Hardware & RF Devices
- Teaching activities
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- I created and teach EEE6239 鈥淩ADIO TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM & CIRCUIT DESIGN鈥 to final year M.Eng. and MSc students. In this course we explore contemporary aspects of RF circuit design and Software Defined Radio and then investigate them in the lab.
- I created and teach 鈥淰HF SYNTHESISER FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS鈥 as part of the 2nd year Design Exercise EEE262.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- SMIEE
- MIET
- Other responsibilities
Theme Lead for Electromagnetics, Wireless Hardware & RF Devices. Director of UKRI National mmWave Measurement Facility.