Technical director, DSP for communications

Colin Cowan was appointed to the Nortel Networks/Royal Academy of Engineering research chair of Telecommunications Systems Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast in 1996. Between 1991 to 1996 he held the post of Professor of Signal Processing at Loughborough University where he was also head of the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. Previously, he held posts as lecturer and reader in the Electrical Engineering Department at Edinburgh University.

Research interests

• Adaptive signal processing
• Non-linear and non-Gaussian signal processing
• Time variant systems

External interests

Major activities beyond the ECIT group include:

• Visiting professor at Loughborough University
• Chairman of 1st IEE International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, London, 1989.
• Chairman of the 7th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Edinburgh, 1994.
• Member of the IEE Professional Network executive team on Signal Processing