W. Dave Waddoup

Contact Details

Title: Research Student
Tel: Internal: [13] 3755
National: 020 7882 3755
International: +44 20 7882 3755
Fax: National: 020 7882 7997
International: +44 20 7882 7997
Email: dave.waddoup@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Room: Eng 355

Research Group: Antenna & Electromagnetics Research Group

Supervisor: Prof Yang Hao

Project title: Multi-Element Antenna Techniques for Remote Monitoring of Wireless Equipped On-Body Medical Sensors

Biography

I obtained my BSc in Physics from the University of Durham in 1974, and joined the Antenna Group at ITT’s Standard Telecommunications Laboratories (now Nortel) at Harlow in the UK. Here, until Y2000, I performed analyses at the Physical Layer of communications links and radar for different UK defence establishments.This culminated in me being a member of NATO’s Study Group 53, where I was responsible for the conceptual development of High-Integrity Command and Control link for their proposed Maritime Unmanned Air Vehicle.

From 2000 to 2009, I was transferred to Nortel’s Antennas and Propagation group which develops multi-element base-station antennas for cellular communications. My contribution involved extensive use of commercial software packages, backed-up by measurements of more promising prototype designs. I left in 2009 to study full-time for a PhD at Queen Mary University of London, primarily to gain a more in-depth understanding of the physics behind antenna design. However, at the same time, I am using my industrial experience to determine whether it is possible to ‘leverage-off’ existing low-cost and ultra-compact Commercial off the Shelf antennas. If successful, this should accelerate the application of wireless communications technology for medical applications.

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