Research and Studentship Funding Wins
Published: 4 April 2022
More wins for the GC-UESTC team include funding for cutting edge quantum computing research and a new PhD studentship
Continuing run of major wins for GC-UESTC academics
Scotland 5G Centre
Funding: £225,000
The Scotland 5G Centre (an innovative partnership between the University of Strathclyde, the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Futures Trust) gained additional funding of £225,000 from the Scottish Government. This will let it extend its use case delivery plan (part of Wave 1 - Phase II) for a further year.
Professor Muhammad Imran gave thanks to Dr Qammer Abbasi, Dr Yusuf Sambo, Dr Shuja Ansari, Dr Ahmed Zoha, Dr Ahmad Taha, Dr Lei Zhang, Dr Guodong Zhao, Dr Lina Mohjazi, Dr Olaoluwa Popoola, Dr Masood Ur Rehman, Dr Hadi Heidari, Julien Le Kernec, Dr Wasim Ahmad .... and many other colleagues.
Empowering Practical Interfacing of Quantum Computing (EPIQC)
Funding: £3 million
The CSI team (in particular, Dr Hadi Heidari and Dr Kaveh Delfanazari) were congratulated for their impressive work winning funding from the EPSRC for a project to be led by Dr Hediari and Professor Martin Weides.
EPIQC will collectively investigate different solutions and develop new and complementary interfaces tailored to key properties of Quantum Computing -QC- along three thematic pillars of enquiry (optical interconnects, wireless control/readout and cryoelectronics). The project is due to start early this month.
It has already featured in The Engineer magazine, where you can find out more.
MAGNABLE: Injectable magnetomyography
Funding: €220,000
Dr Heidari also won EU funding for MAGNABLE: Injectable magnetomyography project.
Nuclear Detection and Decommissioning - wirelessly connected remote detectors
Funding: £110,000
Dr Kelum Gamage has had continued success, securing funding to support a new PhD studentship. Professor Muhammad Imran will act as Co-Investigator.
This project will develop a novel technique for monitoring contamination in-situ at nuclear decommissioning sites. The team will provide solutions to the challenges of remote detector deployment on a nuclear decommissioning site. This will involve detector miniaturisation and digitisation, remote data transmission, and machine learning based data analysis.
The project will be funded and co-supervised by National Nuclear Laboratories (NNL).
CROSSBRAIN - Nano-actuation for Brain
Funding: £500,000
A £4M+ (£500k for Glasgow) EU project was funded for the CSI team, led by Dr Hadi Heidari. Professor Muhammad Imran will act as Co-Investigator.
CROSSBRAIN centres its technological revolution on the convergence of novel nano-actuation modalities, bleeding-edge nano-electronics, and miniaturized wireless energy harvesting and communication.
First published: 4 April 2022