Professor Mohammed Benaissa
PhD, Dip.Ing
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Professor of Information Engineering
Director of Learning and Teaching (Student Experience); DET member
Communications Research Group


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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Profile
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After graduating with a Dip.Ing degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a short stint in industry, I embarked on a PhD in VLSI Signal Processing where I investigated algorithms and circuit architectures for the VLSI implementation of Digital Signal Processing operations based on the Number Theoretic Transforms.
My PhD research, subsequently, led to an interest in applications of number theory in communication systems, cryptography, signal processing and in various aspects of electronic system design, such as, design automation, high performance and low-power. These were further developed via various industrial secondments and consultancies.
I have maintained interest in finite number systems, as well as, in error control coding, in particular in their application to secure and fault-tolerant design.
I have a strong interest in hardware cryptography in terms of challenging the design space of cryptography primitives to enable scalability, security and privacy across domains of application.
Healthcare technology translational research dominates my current research activity which revolves around technology and decision support for diabetes management using a data driven behavioural approach. Over the last 7 years, we have co-created the WithCare+/Glucollector technology platform, to facilitate the collection, management and automated interpretation of diabetes patient self-care data, to provide clues for behavioural interventions. The platform has already been deployed successfully with over 270 people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and 40 Healthcare professionals (HCPs) across 6 NHS trusts within the DAFNEplus Randomised Control Trial (/scharr/research/centres/ctru/dafneplus).
The platform is being further developed via a Healthy Ageing grant (ES/V009796/1) to integrate physical activity (PA) and cognitive data ()
Current collaboration with the Design Age Institute (DAI) at the Royal College of Art is improving the inclusivity of the technology platform
I have published over 160 papers and successfully supervised over 25 PhDs. I received a best paper award for the work on secure and privacy aware RFIDs, an innovation prize award for work on a Diabetes monitoring system, and a granted Patent on WithCare+ ((Patent GB 2467079) .I have acted as External Examiner for computer science and information systems undergraduate courses at Birkbeck (University of London) and examined over 20 PhDs.
I have served on numerous TPCs for conferences, sat on several research funding panels and acted as External reviewer of research.
I am currently the department director of student experience and a member of the department's executive team.
- Qualifications
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- PhD
- Dip.Ing
- Research interests
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- Design and implementation of cryptosystems
- Design and implementation of error-control coding systems
- Reconfigurable hardware design
- Healthcare engineering
- Galois fields arithmetic circuits
- Residue number systems
- Publications
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Journal articles
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Conference proceedings papers
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- Research group
- Research students
Student Degree Status Primary/Secondary Abdelaal A M M PhD Graduated Primary Al-Mbaideen A A M PhD Graduated Primary
Chelton W PhD Graduated Primary Chu J PhD Graduated Primary Fan D PhD Graduated Primary Good T R PhD Graduated Primary Hassan M N PhD Graduated Primary Kanakis A PhD Graduated Primary Khan Z U A PhD Graduated Primary Lim W M PhD Graduated Primary Malik B PhD Graduated Primary Patchava K PhD Graduated Primary Patel R A PhD Graduated Primary Saraireh S S PhD Graduated Primary Zhu Y PhD Graduated Primary Arbi A S PhD Graduated Secondary Patchava K PhD Graduated Secondary Wang Y PhD Graduated Secondary Zhu S PhD Graduated Secondary