Publications
Balsamo, Domenico, Cetinkaya, Oktay, Rodriguez Arreola, Alberto, Wong, Samuel Chang Bing, Merrett, Geoff and Weddell, Alexander (2020) A control flow for transiently-powered energy harvesting sensor systems. IEEE Sensors Journal, 20 (18), 10687-10695, [9088951]. (doi:10.1109/JSEN.2020.2993213).
Wong, Samuel Chang Bing, Merrett, Geoff, Weddell, Alexander, Cetinkaya, Oktay, Balsamo, Domenico and Rodriguez Arreola, Alberto (2020) Dataset for: A Control Flow for Transiently-Powered Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1364 [Dataset]
Wong, Samuel Chang Bing, Sliper, Sivert T., Wang, William, Weddell, Alexander, Gauthier, Stephanie and Merrett, Geoff (2020) Energy-aware HW/SW co-modeling of batteryless wireless sensor nodes. In ENSsys 2020 - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems. ACM Press. pp. 57-63 . (doi:10.1145/3417308.3430272).
Wong, Samuel Chang Bing, Gauthier, Stephanie and Merrett, Geoff (2020) Energy-driven occupant behaviour sensing. 6th International Symposium on Occupant Behaviour Research with Digital Technologies & 5th Expert Meeting of Annex 79. 23 - 25 Sep 2020.
Sahoo, Siva Satyendra, Kumar, Akash, Decky, Martin, Wong, Samuel Chang Bing, Merrett, Geoff, Zhao, Yinyuan, Wang, Xiaohang and Singh, Amit Kumar (2021) Emergent design challenges for embedded systems and paths forward: Mixed-criticality, energy, reliability and security perspectives: Special Session Paper. The International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis 2021, Virtual. 10 - 13 Oct 2021. 10 pp . (In Press)
Wong, Samuel Chang Bing (2020) Dataset for: Energy-aware HW/SW Co-modeling of Batteryless Wireless Sensor Nodes. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1593 [Dataset]
PhD Student
I have been at the university since September 2014 when I began a degree in electronic engineering. I recieved a BEng, and accepted a PhD offer under Prof. Themis Prodromakis to study the impacts of atmospheric conditions on the behaviour of TiO ReRAM devices.
Research
Research interests
Electronic devices
ReRAM/Memristors
Semiconductor Physiscs
Publications
Abbey, Thomas, Serb, Alexantrou, Vasilakis, Nikolaos, Michalas, Loukas, Khiat, Ali, Stathopoulos, Spyros and Prodromakis, Themis (2018) An embedded environmental control micro-chamber system for RRAM memristor characterisation. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), , Florence, Italy. 27 - 30 May 2018. pp. 1-4 . (doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351673).
Abbey, T., Serb, A., Vasilakis, N., Michalas, L., Khiat, A., Stathopoulos, S. and Prodromakis, T. (2018) Live Demonstration: An embedded environmental control micro-chamber system for RRAM memristor characterisation. In 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2018 - Proceedings. vol. 2018-May, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. (doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351845).
Tzouvadaki, Ioulia (2020) Dataset for: Monitoring PSA levels as chemical state-variables in metal-oxide memristors. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1439 [Dataset]
Tzouvadaki, Ioulia, Stathopoulos, Spyros, Abbey, Thomas, Michalas, Loukas and Prodromakis, Themistoklis (2020) Monitoring PSA levels as chemical state-variables in metal-oxide memristors. Scientific Reports, 10 (1), [15281]. (doi:10.1038/s41598-020-71962-3).
Vaidya, Dhirendra (2021) Dataset for "Compact Modeling of the Switching Dynamics and Temperature Dependencies in TiOx-Based Memristors: Part I — Behavioral Model". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1923 [Dataset]
Vaidya, Dhirendra (2021) Dataset for "Compact Modeling of the Switching Dynamics and Temperature Dependencies in TiOx Memristors: Part II — Physics-Based Model". University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1920 [Dataset]
Vaidya, Dhirendra, Kothari, Shraddha, Abbey, Thomas, Stathopoulos, Spyros, Michalas, Loukas, Serb, Alexantrou and Prodromakis, Themistoklis (2021) Compact modeling of the switching dynamics and temperature dependencies in TiOx memristors: Part II — Physics Based Model. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 68 (10), 4885 - 4890. (doi:10.1109/TED.2021.3102002).
Vaidya, Dhirendra, Kothari, Shraddha, Abbey, Thomas, Khiat, Ali, Stathopoulos, Spyros, Michalas, Loukas, Serb, Alexantrou and Prodromakis, Themistoklis (2021) Compact modeling of the switching dynamics and temperature dependencies in TiOx memristors: Part I — behavioural model. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 68 (10), 4877 - 4884. (doi:10.1109/TED.2021.3101996).
Simanjuntak, Firman, Hsu, Chun-Ling, Abbey, Thomas and Hsu, Chun-Ling (2021) Conduction channel configuration controlled digital and analog response in TiO2-based inorganic memristive artificial synapses. APL Materials, [121103].
Abbey, Thomas, Giotis, Christos, Serb, Alexantrou, Stathopoulos, Spyros and Prodromakis, Themistoklis (2022) Thermal effects on initial volatile response and relaxation dynamics of resistive RAM devices. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 43 (3), 386 - 389. (doi:10.1109/LED.2022.3145620).
Contact
Email: ta5g14@soton.ac.uk
Publications
Yule, Lawrence, Zaghari, Bahareh, Harris, Nicholas and Hill, Martyn (2020) Temperature monitoring of Nozzle Guide Vanes (NGVs) using ultrasonic guided waves. ASME Turbo Expo 2020. 21 - 27 Sep 2020.
Yule, Lawrence, Zaghari, Bahareh, Harris, Nicholas and Hill, Martyn (2021) Surface temperature condition monitoring methods for aerospace turbomachinery: exploring the use of ultrasonic guided waves. Measurement Science and Technology, 32 (5), 1-30, [052002]. (doi:10.1088/1361-6501/abda96).
Yule, Lawrence, Hill, Martyn, Harris, Nicholas and Zaghari, Bahareh (2021) Towards in-flight temperature monitoring for nozzle guide vanes using ultrasonic guided waves: AIAA 2021-3475 Session: Gas Turbine Diagnostics, Prognostics and Controls. AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum, Virtual event. 09 - 11 Aug 2021. (doi:10.2514/6.2021-3475).
Yule, Lawrence (2021) Modelling and validation of a guided acoustic wave temperature monitoring system: Dataset. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1963 [Dataset]
Yule, Lawrence, Zaghari, Bahareh, Harris, Nicholas and Hill, Martyn (2021) Modelling and validation of a guided acoustic wave temperature monitoring system. Sensors, 21 (21), [7390]. (doi:10.3390/s21217390).
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 7554445574
Email: L.Yule@soton.ac.uk
Two Artificial Intelligence students from the University of Southampton have won an International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) with an algorithmic strategy they fine-tuned during their degree.
Shaobo Xu and Peihao Ren developed the Agent GG software programme to autonomously negotiate the value of items such as apples and bananas by analysing up to thousands of rounds of data against rival participants.
The pair scooped first prize in the agent to agent league of the ANAC competition, held on August 15th at the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI) in Macau, China.
The success was one of two accolades for Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science at IJCAI 2019, with lecturer Dr Long Tran-Thanh delivering a prestigious Early Career Spotlight talk recognising his potential as a future leader in his field.
Southampton's expertise in computer vision, robotics and machine learning techniques has been delivered in over 10 years of teaching in its research-led MSc Artificial Intelligence programme. Shaobo and Peihao developed Agent GG as part of their Intelligent Agents module, with the creation finishing second in an in-class competition.
"We are excited to have ranked so highly in the competition and want to thank Module Lead Dr Enrico Gerding for all his support this past year," Peihao says. "We adapted our coursework according to the latest rules, adjusting just a few parameters, and we never expected our agent to outperform such impressive participants.
"Our agent assumes the opponent will always offer its best bid at first and then compromise, estimating the utility of a mid-point bid using both sides' best bids. Our method of compromising was key to our success, with offered bids always more favourable to our agent and the offers slowly compromised to the mid-point bid."
The Southampton students received €250 prize money, as well as a €750 scholarship from the organisers.
This summer's event was the 10th edition of the annual contest, with challengers divided into agent-agent, human-agent, supply chain management, diplomacy and werewolf leagues. Southampton students Meng Wan and Hui Cui finished second in last year's competition.
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PhD
Publications
Vryonis, Orestis, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2016) Improved Lightning Protection of Carbon Fiber Reinforced polymer wind turbine blades: epoxy/graphene oxide nanocomposites. Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), Toronto, Canada. (In Press)
Vryonis, Orestis, Andritsch, Thomas, Madsen, Søren, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2017) Graphene Oxide - Epoxy resin nanocomposites: A potential candidate for improving lightning protection systems of wind turbine carbon fibre sparcaps. International Conference on Lightning & Static Electricity, Winc Aichi, Nagoya, Japan. 13 - 15 Sep 2017. 5 pp . (In Press)
Vryonis, Orestis, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2018) On the effect of solvent method processing on epoxy resin systems: a molecular dynamics study. 2017 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomenon, CEIDP 2017, , Texas, United States. 21 - 24 Oct 2017. pp. 509-512 . (doi:10.1109/CEIDP.2017.8257525).
Senis, Evangelos, Vryonis, Orestis, Golosnoy, Igor O., Thomsen, Ole, Barton, Janice and Madsen, Soren (2017) Reducing the electrical anisotropy in unidirectional CFRP materials for wind turbine blade applications. International Conference on Lightning & Static Electricity, Winc Aichi, Nagoya, Japan. 13 - 15 Sep 2017. pp. 1-5 .
Vryonis, Orestis, Harrell, Timothy, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2018) Solvent mixing and its effect on epoxy resin filled with graphene oxide. 2nd International Conference on Dielectrics, Danubius Hotel Helia, Budapest, Hungary. 01 - 05 Jul 2018.
Vryonis, Orestis, Virtanen, Suvi, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2019) Understanding the cross-linking reactions in highly oxidized graphene/epoxy nanocomposite systems. Journal of Materials Science, 54 (4), 3035-3051. (doi:10.1007/s10853-018-3076-8).
Vryonis, Orestis, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2019) An alternative synthesis route to graphene oxide: influence of surface chemistry on charge transport in epoxy-based composites. Journal of Materials Science, 54 (11), 8302-8318. (doi:10.1007/s10853-019-03477-w).
Senis, E.C., Vryonis, Orestis, Golosnoy, I.O., Dulieu-Barton, J.M., Thomsen, O.T., Carloni, L. and Madsen, S.F. (2017) The Influence of Graphene Oxide on the electrical conduction in unidirectional CFRP laminates for wind turbine blade applications. In 2017 International Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity. 5 pp .
Vryonis, Orestis (2019) Datasets for Doctoral Thesis 'Structure/Property Relations of Graphene Oxide/Epoxy Nanocomposites'. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D1063 [Dataset]
Vryonis, Orestis, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2019) Structural and chemical comparison between moderately oxygenated and edge oxygenated graphene: mechanical, electrical and thermal performance of the epoxy nanocomposites. SN Applied Sciences, 1, [1275]. (doi:10.1007/s42452-019-1303-9).
Vryonis, Orestis (2019) Structure/property relations of graphene oxide/epoxy nanocomposites: tailoring the particle surface chemistry for enhanced electrical and thermal performance. University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis, 185pp.
Vryonis, Orestis, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun and Lewin, Paul (2020) Effect of surfactant molecular structure on the electrical and thermal performance of epoxy/functionalized‐graphene nanocomposites. Polymer Composites, 41 (7), 2753-2767.
Riarh, Satpreet, Vryonis, Orestis and Vaughan, Alun (2020) Octa-glycidyl POSS: an epoxy filler or co-monomer? In IEEE 2020 International Conference on Dielectrics (ICD). (In Press)
Vryonis, Orestis, Riarh, Satpreet, Andritsch, Thomas and Vaughan, Alun (2021) Stoichiometry and molecular dynamics of anhydride-cured epoxy resin incorporating octa-glycidyl POSS Co-Monomer. Polymer, 213, [123312]. (doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2020.123312).
Laudani, A.A.M., Vryonis, O., Lewin, P.L., Golosnoy, I.O., Kremer, J., Klein, H. and Thomsen, O.T. (2022) Numerical simulation of lightning strike damage to wind turbine blades and validation against conducted current test data. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 152, [106708]. (doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2021.106708).
Vryonis, Orestis, Philipp, Marx, Stefan, Hirner, Wiesbrock, Frank and Andritsch, Thomas (2021) Investigation of different commercial boron nitride grades and their effect on loss spectra in epoxy resins and silicone rubbers. In IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena 2021. 4 pp . (In Press)
Chaudhary, Sunny, Vryonis, Orestis, Vaughan, Alun and Andritsch, Thomas (2022) Dielectric response in epoxy nanocomposites incorporating various nano-silica architectures. In 2021 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP). IEEE. pp. 57-60 . (doi:10.1109/CEIDP50766.2021.9705316).
Vryonis, Orestis, Laudani, Antonio, Andrea Maria, Andritsch, Thomas, Golosnoy, Igor O. and Vaughan, Alun (2021) Lightning Protection of Wind Turbine Blades – How Supersizing Has Created New Challenges for Nanodielectrics Research. IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, 37 (6), 6-20. (doi:10.1109/MEI.2021.9580820).
Laudani, Antonio, Andrea Maria (2022) Contact Resistivity and Epoxy Thermal Degradation. University of Southampton doi:10.5258/SOTON/D2215 [Dataset]
Chaudhary, Sunny, Vryonis, Orestis, Vaughan, Alun, Andritsch, Thomas and Feuchter, Michael (2022) Dynamic mechanical response in epoxy nanocomposites incorporating various nano-silica architectures. IEEE 2022 International Conference on Dielectrics, Palermo, Italy, Palermo, Italy. 03 - 07 Jul 2022.
Vryonis, Orestis, Andritsch, Thomas, Vaughan, Alun, Morshuis, P and Claverie, A (2022) Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Dielectric Performance of a Silicone Rubber. IEEE 2022 International Conference on Dielectrics, Palermo, Italy, Palermo, Italy. 03 - 07 Jul 2022. 4 pp . (In Press)
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 4496
Email: O.Vryonis@soton.ac.uk
Introducing your degree
Overview
Programme Structure
To Apply
Entry Requirements
Typical entry requirements
Learning & Assessment
Breakdown of study time and assessment
| Proportion of time spent in scheduled learning, teaching and independent study | |
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| Learning, teaching and assessment stage | 1 |
| Scheduled learning & teaching study | 0% |
| Independent study | 0% |
| Placement study | 0% |
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| Learning, teaching and assessment stage | 1 |
| Written exam assessment | 0% |
| Practical exam assessment | 0% |
| Coursework assessment | 0% |
Fees & funding
Tuition fees
Course fees for 2017/18 full-time UK and EU undergraduate students are typically £9,250 per year. Tuition fees for international students differ between each course. Most part-time courses cost 50% of the full-time fee.
Funding
Scholarships, bursaries or grants may be available to support you through your course. Funding opportunities available to you are linked to your subject area and/or your country of origin. These can be from the University of Southampton or other sources.
Costs associated with this course
Students are responsible for meeting the cost of essential textbooks, and of producing such essays, assignments, laboratory reports and dissertations as are required to fulfil the academic requirements for each programme of study.
There will also be further costs for the following, not purchasable from the University:
| Type | Description |
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| Approved Calculators | Candidates may use calculators in the examination room only as specified by the University and as permitted by the rubric of individual examination papers. The University approved models are Casio FX-570 and Casio FX-85GT Plus. These may be purchased from any source and no longer need to carry the University logo. |
| Stationery | You will be expected to provide your own day-to-day stationery items, e.g. pens, pencils, notebooks, etc). Any specialist stationery items will be specified under the Additional Costs tab of the relevant module profile. |
| Textbooks | Where a module specifies core texts these should generally be available on the reserve list in the library. However due to demand, students may prefer to buy their own copies. These can be purchased from any source. Some modules suggest reading texts as optional background reading. The library may hold copies of such texts, or alternatively you may wish to purchase your own copies. Although not essential reading, you may benefit from the additional reading materials for the module. |
| Printing and Photocopying Costs | In the majority of cases, coursework such as essays; projects; dissertations is likely to be submitted on line. However, there are some items where it is not possible to submit on line and students will be asked to provide a printed copy. A list of the University printing costs can be found here: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/students/printing-for-students.page. |
In some cases you'll be able to choose modules (which may have different costs associated with that module) which will change the overall cost of a programme to you. Please also ensure you read the section on additional costs in the University’s Fees, Charges and Expenses Regulations in the University Calendar available at www.calendar.soton.ac.uk.
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 7465
Email: A.S.Idris@soton.ac.uk
iPhD Minds CDT
Find out about opportunitites in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano-Electronic Devices and Systems
Researchers from the University of Southampton will assess rapid diagnosis technologies and treatments against antibiotic resistant infections in new research laboratories at University Hospital Southampton.
The university-hospital partnership has won £2.8 million in funding for the facilities as part of a £32 million package awarded to ten sites nationally by the Department of Health and Social Care.
Experts from the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) will use the hub to continue their ground-breaking work developing rapid methods for detecting or diagnosing antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Overuse of antibiotics has driven anti-microbial resistance (AMR) - the emergence of bacteria and fungi strains immune to their effects, resulting in infections that kill over 5,000 people each year in the UK. That figure is rising year-on-year and globally there is concern that new strains may emerge that are resistant to all existing antibiotics.
University Hospital Southampton and the University of Southampton's Global Network for Anti-Microbial Resistance and Infection Prevention (UoS NAMRIP) will develop the state-of-the-art research facilities to tackle this threat on the frontline.
Professor Tim Leighton, Director of UoS NAMRIP, said: “This award is a huge achievement and we are extremely grateful to the Department of Health and Social Care. This is an enormous opportunity to close the loop of researchers working with end users to define the key problems and opportunities to address AMR, conduct ground-breaking research to address those, and then progress to end users who can ensure breakthroughs are translated out to benefit on a societal scale.”
Located at the heart of Southampton General Hospital, researchers at the laboratories will work directly with consultants and services including adult and children’s medicine, major surgery, infectious diseases and emergency care.
Southampton is already at the forefront of world-leading clinical research in infectious diseases through studies such as a pioneering use of genetically-modified harmless bacteria to dislodge strains that cause life-threatening meningitis by Professor Robert Read, Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Southampton Biomedical Research Unit and lead applicant on the facilities award.
Professor Hywel Morgan and colleagues from ECS are developing a rapid 30-minute test to determine whether patient samples with a urine infection contains a resistant infection.
“The research builds upon work previously funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) which extracted the bacteria from the urine and then extracted the DNA from which we identified genes that tell us if the bacteria are resistant,” he explained.
“This research uses a digital microfluidic platform and is a collaboration with Public Health England (PHE). We are also developing a simple and rapid anti-microbial susceptibility test, AST for short, that can be used on any patient samples. This test looks at the direct response of the bacteria to an antibiotic to determine whether they are resistant or not.”
The pioneering work is done using electrical methods that analyses single bacteria in a population one by one, but very quickly. The current timeline for an AST is between 48 and 72 hours, however the ECS team have now demonstrated results in as short a timeframe as 30 minutes. The researchers have filed patents and are working with PHE to commercialise the technology.
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World-leading experts taught data visualisation, code optimisation and machine learning techniques that could help solve some of science’s greatest questions at a summer academy for researchers at the University of Southampton.
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Next Generation Computational Modelling (NGCM), hosted over 50 students from across the UK at this month’s week-long event on Boldrewood Innovation Campus.
The summer academy brings together PhD students and early career researchers who work on the computer simulation of science and engineering problems and want to extend their training with courses by key developers on relevant software tools.
Expert courses during the week included a two-day overview of machine learning delivered by Professor Mahesan Niranjan, Professor Adam Prugel-Bennett and Dr Jonathon Hare from Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science.
Dr Andreas Jüttner, NGCM director, says: “Be it improving the aerodynamics of a Formula 1 car, designing new medicines that better penetrate a cell membrane in the human body or the question about what the universe looked like shortly after the Big Bang - computational modelling of the underlying physical or chemical processes is an indispensable tool that is driving progress at the forefront of all branches of scientific research.
“The complexity of the questions to be addressed is constantly increasing, requiring people able to harness ever stronger computing resources, develop new algorithms, data analysis and machine learning techniques, to further our understanding of nature and to improve the world we live in. The NGCM is training a new generation of researchers with the required skillset to address these questions.”
This month’s summer academy provided workshops in data visualisation techniques that can make data accessible and easier to understand, code optimisation that can make computer code run faster, theory and practical examples in the transformative discipline of machine learning and the increasingly important computing platform of coding Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
International experts Dr Prabhu Ramachandran from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, Adrian Jackson from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre and Jony Castanga from the Science and Technologies Facilities Council delivered courses on VTK and Mayavi, Optimising Scientific Software and GPU programming using CUDA.
The NGCM provides a four-year PhD programme that consists of a year of taught material before students spend three years dedicated to a research topic. The CDT benefits from a dedicated physical space in Boldrewood Innovation Campus and an extended network of industrial and academic partners.