Des McLernon

Des McLernon received his B.Sc in electronic and electrical engineering and his MSc in electronics, both from the Queen’s University of Belfast, N. Ireland. He then worked on radar systems research and development with Ferranti Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland and later joined Imperial College, University of London, where he took his PhD in signal processing. His research interests are broadly within the domain of signal processing for wireless communications (in which area he has published over 340 journal and conference papers). He has supervised over 50 PhD students and is associate editor of IET journal “Signal Processing”. Recent conference organisation includes IEEE SPAWC 2010, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2013, IET Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing (London, 2013/2015/2017), IEEE Globecom 2014/2015/2016 (Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security) and the First International Workshop on Digital Technologies for Global Challenges (Leeds University, 27-28 June 2019).

Finally, in what spare time remains he plays jazz piano in bars and restaurants and recently came second in the 2018 Leeds Pub Piano Competition (https://leedspubpiano.com) – which he now considers his most important “academic” achievement ! :-)