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04 January 2021

Reconfigurable antenna design scoops radio frequency communications prize

Tom Moody collects his runner-up prize. Image credit: UKESF

Final year electronic engineering student Tom Moody has been announced as a runner-up in a national Radio Frequency Engineering and Communications Competition with an ambitious individual project at the University of Southampton.Tom designed, simulated and fabricated four Frequency Reconfigurable Patch Antennas during his MEng Electronic Engineering project, which followed two summer internships with Meggitt Avionics.Radio Frequency (RF)...

19 December 2020

Tim Daulby wins Best Pitch Video Award at ENSsys 2020

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Tim Daulby has won an award for presenting his work on intermittent computing at ENSsys 2020, the 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems.Tim's paper, entitled ''Exploring NVM technologies through the lens of intermittent computation'',...

15 December 2020

Southampton awarded gold status for excellence in cyber security education

Southampton is a Centre of Excellence in both cyber security research and education.

First-rate cyber security teaching at the University of Southampton has been recognised with a prestigious Gold Award in a new government programme from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).Southampton is one of the first universities in the UK to be named an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE).The Gold Award complements the University's existing status as a Centre of Excellence...

15 December 2020

Biotech research partnership to advance desktop gene printer

Professor Hywel Morgan is partnering with Nuclera to create a robust gene printer.

Bioelectronics expertise from the University of Southampton is supporting the development of a benchtop gene printer in a growing partnership with the UK-based Nuclera biotech company.Professor Hywel Morgan, Head of the Biomedical Electronics Research Group, is helping accelerate the pathway to commercialisation for the new instrument that can produce highly-customisable gene-length products in a day.The new two-year...

14 December 2020

Expanding NExT Institute forges new connections between experiment and theory

NExT Institute researchers are using the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider. Image Credit: CERN

An interdisciplinary research institute directed within the University of Southampton has welcomed new partners from King's College London (KCL) as it continues pushing the boundaries of particle physics.The NExT Institute, directed by Physics and Astronomy's Professor Stefano Moretti, has announced a new affiliation with KCL's Theoretical Particle Physics...

10 December 2020

High-performance compute cluster enhances Southampton AI teaching and research

The Alpha cluster has been installed in the University of Southamptons high-performance computing facility.

The University of Southampton will remain at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning advances through the upgraded processing power of a new high-performance compute cluster in Electronics and Computer Science (ECS).The Alpha cluster, based in the University's state-of-the-art data centre near Southampton, features 24 NVidia RTX8000 GPUs installed across six...