Publications
Mougan Navarro, Carlos, Kanellos, Georgios and Gottron, Thomas (2021) Desiderata for Explainable AI in Statistical Production Systems of the European Central Bank. European Congress of Machine Learning (ECML PKDD) - 2nd Workshop on bias and fairness in AI, Online Event, Rome, Italy. 13 - 17 Sep 2021. 8 pp . (In Press)
Student entrepreneurs from the University of Southampton have created a free browser tool that automatically manages cookie pop-ups without sacrificing data privacy.
The Stardust start-up, founded by Computer Science and Mathematics students Til Jordan and Andrius Matšenas, is building a platform where users own, control, and communicate their personal data online.
Their new browser extension, called the Stardust Cookie Cutter, represents a first step toward this vision for people-centric personal data.
"Most of us have tried at least once to opt for the consents we are actually okay with but it's a forever repetitive task," Til says. "The reality is that after a short period of time most people give up trying and usually opt with 'Allow all'.
"Stardust, with its Cookie Cutter browser extension, proposes a solution - to only ask for a person's consent preferences once and automatically take care of the rest."
The plugin is free and accessible to everyone using Chrome, Firefox, Brave or Edge browsers. For other browsers, the instructions are given on the Stardust website.
The co-founders say that the start-up was born out of the billions of user records that are breached every year, rendering people’s personal data vulnerable online.
"Shifting data control from companies to individuals with transparent and independent technology is long overdue and probably the most sensible approach to alleviate the power of 'Big Tech' companies," Andrius says.
"It will firstly make online processes more convenient for the everyday person, like browsing the web without cookie pop-ups, but also in the long run cut server and infrastructure costs for companies and create many new business opportunities."
Til and Andius have previously demonstrated the benefits of personal data centred around the end-user in Garage48 Cybersecurity Hackathon in late 2020 where they secured a runner-up prize.
Stardust is part of this spring’s Founders Cohort for the University’s Future Worlds start-up accelerator, where a four-month acceleration programme will rapidly develop the business toward market.
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Hsuan-Yang Wang is a PhD student at the Centre of Doctoral Training (CDT) of Machine Intelligence for Nano-Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS) at the University of Southampton.
Hsuan-Yang graduated with an MEng degree in Acoustical Engineering in 2015 from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton. He has previously worked in the industry as a senior acoustic consultant at MACH Acoustics. In 2019, he joined the 'Embedded AI' research theme of the MINDS CDT and started a PhD under the supervision of Dr Christine Evers and Prof Philip Nelson. His research interest is in utilising the latest machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies in audio applications. He is currently working on developing an artificial source localisation model that emulates human perceptual behaviour to evaluate binaural technology, such as hearable devices and augmented reality.
Research
Research interests
Embedded AI, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Binaural Source Localisation, Cocktail Party Problem
Publications
Wang, Hsuan-Yang, Nelson, Philip and Evers, Christine (2021) Excitation-inhibition Cell activity patterns for binaural source localisation. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, United States. 17 - 20 Oct 2021. 5 pp . (In Press)
Contact
Email: w.hsuan-yang@soton.ac.uk
Publications
Batt, D. A. and Currie, A. J. (1984) A VLSI Design Language Incorporating Self-timed Concurrent Processes. Proc. IEE Conf. on Electronic Design Automation. pp. 199-203 .
Allerton, D. J., Batt, D. A., Currie, A. J. and Nichols, K. G. (1984) Functional Simulation as an Adjunct to Silicon Compilation. Proc. IEE Conf. on Computer Aided Engineering. pp. 36-41 .
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 4478
Email: dab@ecs.soton.ac.uk
A team of students from the University of Southampton have secured first place in a nationwide engineering contest with an effective design for a can-sized satellite.
The Soton CanSat team designed and built the cylindrical satellite simulation to be launched hundreds of metres into the air before returning to ground by parachute.
Judges ranked the Southampton design first in UK University CanSat competition, with a 95.8% rating that was over five percent greater than its nearest rivals.
The spacecraft wasn't launched in this spring's contest, owing to lockdown restrictions, however the Southampton team already have their sights set on a maiden flight at this July's Mach-21 competition at Machrihanish Airbase in Scotland.
This was the Southampton team's debut entry in the UK University CanSat competition.
The Soton CanSat team, run by the Southampton University Spaceflight Society (SUSF), included fourth year Electronic Engineering with Industrial Studies student Adrian Kraft, second year Electronic Engineering student Harry Snell, first year Aerospace Electronic Engineering with Industrial Studies student Oli Perez, second year Aeronautics and Astronautics student Nicholas Horsman and first year Computer Science student Thomas Cross.
"First place is an amazing result and I believe it really shows what a determined and organised team can achieve," project lead Adrian says. "Our ability to collaborate effectively online in the face of challenges posed by national lockdowns helped us attain a winning design.
"Our aim was to fulfil the competition requirements to the fullest without having to overcomplicate the design. We focused on splitting sections of our design into different subsystems such as flight software and electrical power. Rigorous testing and reshaping were key. I'm really looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in the next Mach-21 event."
The CanSat competition is designed to reflect various aspects of real-world missions, including telemetry requirements, communications, and autonomous operations. The experience allows students to get a feel for project-work in an engineering related career, develop their time and project management skills, and learn how to work effectively in a team.
"It was a challenging but exciting experience," Adrian says. "Elements of the electronic and mechanical build were particularly difficult without access to laboratory equipment. Considering we were not able to meet in person, I am very proud of what the team has accomplished."
The Soton CanSat team is sponsored and supported by SUSF, the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science, and industry partner Cirium.
Second year Aerospace Electronic Engineering student Harry Hancock is joining the team to bring their numbers to six ahead of this summer's competition. Mach-21 will take place from 14-16 July.
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Manage CHB Labs based in Building 85 supporting Prof. Morgan's Biomedical Electronics Research group. Cleanroom fabrication in Zepler Institute Building 53 to make a wide range of devices used in Biomedical electronics research my speciality are bond-aligned and thermally compressed wafer processing to make microfluidic devices which are used in impedance experiments by the researchers in Building 85 CHB to study cell behaviour and in the marine environment. Provide technical support and demonstration teaching to undergraduates in the CHB labs and ECS summer Schools and postgraduate teaching in the TRC Cleanroom. I provide H&S advice to the School of ECS Research groups’ facilities, and this includes workplace inspections.
Other ,voluntary roles. I ran the Tech FEPS Forum to network with Technicians across the five faculty Schools since Feb 2018 till June 2020 and recently been involved with the Technician Commitment Implementation Group's 'Visibility group' to support Southampton University’s Technician Commitment action plan involves raising profiles of TAE staff internally and externally and to help organise the first ever University event for Technical staff (30th March 2022).
Research
Research interests
Cleanroom fabrication and lithography supporting projects iFAST, EVFoundry, Tech Oceans
Teaching
ECS Biomedical Electronics Engineering, PGT and ECS Summer Schools provides technical support and demonstration on modules ELEC1211, ELEC2230, BIOL2051, ELEC6205
Publications
Painter, Stuart C., Sanders, Richard, Waldron, Howard N., Lucas, Michael I., Woodward, E. Malcolm S. and Chamberlain, Katie (2008) Nitrate uptake along repeat meridional transects of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Marine Systems, 74 (1-2), 227-240. (doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.12.009).
Huang, Xi, Pascal, Robin W., Chamberlain, Katie, Banks, Christopher J., Mowlem, Matthew and Morgan, Hywel (2011) A miniature, high precision conductivity and temperature sensor system for ocean monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal, 11 (12), 3246-3252. (doi:10.1109/JSEN.2011.2149516).
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 6782
Email: K.E.Chamberlain@soton.ac.uk
PhD
Publications
Shankar, F., Sonnenfeld, A., Grylls, P., Zanisi, L., Nipoti, C., Chae, K.-H., Bernardi, M., Petrillo, C.E., Huertas-Company, M., Mamon, G.A. and Buchan, S. (2018) Revisiting the bulge-halo conspiracy - II. Towards explaining its puzzling dependence on redshift. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475 (3), 2878-2890. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3086).
Grylls, Philip J, Shankar, F, Zanisi, L and Bernardi, M (2019) A statistical semi-empirical model: satellite galaxies in groups and clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483 (2), 2506-2523. (doi:10.1093/mnras/sty3281).
Shankar, Francesco, Weinberg, David H, Marsden, Christopher, Grylls, Philip J., Bernardi, Mariangela, Yang, Guang, Moster, Benjamin, Fu, Hao, Carraro, Rosamaria, Alexander, David M., Allevato, Viola, Ananna, Tonima T., Bongiorno, Angela, Calderone, Giorgio, Civano, Francesca, Daddi, Emanuele, Delvecchio, Ivan, Duras, Federica, Lafranca, Fabio, Lapi, Andrea, Lu, Youjun, Menci, Nicola, Mezcua, Mar, Ricci, Federica, Rodighiero, Giulia, Sheth, Ravi K, Suh, Hyewon, Villforth, Carolin and Zanisi, Lorenzo (2020) Probing black hole accretion tracks, scaling relations, and radiative efficiencies from stacked X-ray active galactic nuclei. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493 (1), 1500-1511. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz3522).
Chapman, Age, Ugwudike, Pamela, Grylls, Philip, Gammack, David and Ayling, Jacqueline, Anne (2022) A data-driven analysis of the interplay between criminological theory and predictive policing algorithms. In ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency: FaCCT. ACM Press. 14 pp .
Grylls, Philip J, Shankar, F and Conselice, C. J. (2020) The significant effects of stellar mass estimation on galaxy pair fractions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499 (2), 2262-2275. (doi:10.1093/mnras/staa2966).
Contact
Email: P.J.Grylls@soton.ac.uk
Publications
Long, B., Alessio Verni, G., O'Connell, J., Shayesteh, M., Gangnaik, A., Georgiev, Y. M., Carolan, P., O'Connell, D., Kuhn, K. J., Clendenning, S. B., Nagle, R., Duffy, R. and Holmes, J. D. (2017) Doping top-down e-beam fabricated germanium nanowires using molecular monolayers. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 62, 196-200. (doi:10.1016/j.mssp.2016.10.038).
Gangnaik, Anushka S., Ghoshal, Tandra, Georgiev, Yordan M., Morris, Michael A. and Holmes, Justin D. (2018) Fabrication of Si and Ge nanoarrays through graphoepitaxial directed hardmask block copolymer self-assembly. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 531, 533-543. (doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2018.06.018).
Gangnaik, Anushka S., Georgiev, Yordan M. and Holmes, Justin D. (2017) New generation electron beam resists: A review. Chemistry of Materials, 29 (5), 1898-1917. (doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03483).
Cummins, Cian, Gangnaik, Anushka, Kelly, Roisin A., Hydes, Alan J., O'Connell, John, Petkov, Nikolay, Georgiev, Yordan M., Borah, Dipu, Holmes, Justin D. and Morris, Michael A. (2015) Parallel arrays of sub-10 nm aligned germanium nanofins from an in situ metal oxide hardmask using directed self-assembly of block copolymers. Chemistry of Materials, 27 (17), 6091-6096. (doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02608).
Cummins, Cian, Kelly, Roisin A., Gangnaik, Anushka, Georgiev, Yordan M., Petkov, Nikolay, Holmes, Justin D. and Morris, Michael A. (2015) Solvent vapor annealing of block copolymers in confined topographies: Commensurability considerations for nanolithography. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 36 (8), 762-767. (doi:10.1002/marc.201400722).
Kelly, Roisin A., Liedke, Bartosz, Baldauf, Stefan, Gangnaik, Anushka, Biswas, Subhajit, Georgiev, Yordan, Holmes, Justin D., Posselt, Matthias and Petkov, Nikolay (2015) Epitaxial post-implant recrystallization in germanium nanowires. Crystal Growth and Design, 15 (9), 4581-4590. (doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00836).
Cummins, Cian, Gangnaik, Anushka, Kelly, Roisin A., Borah, Dipu, O'Connell, John, Petkov, Nikolay, Georgiev, Yordan M., Holmes, Justin D. and Morris, Michael A. (2015) Aligned silicon nanofins via the directed self-assembly of PS-b-P4VP block copolymer and metal oxide enhanced pattern transfer. Nanoscale, 7 (15), 6712-6721. (doi:10.1039/c4nr07679f).
Qi, Yanli, Zheng, Zhexuan, Banakar, Mehdi, Wu, Yangbo, Gangnaik, Anushka, Rowe, David, Mittal, Vinita, Butement, Jonathan, Wilkinson, James S, Mashanovich, Goran and Nedeljković, Miloš (2021) Integrated switching circuit for low-noise self-referenced mid-infrared absorption sensing using silicon waveguides. IEEE Photonics Journal, 13 (6), [6600110]. (doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2021.3121331).
O'Connell, John, Verni, Giuseppe Alessio, Gangnaik, Anushka, Shayesteh, Maryam, Long, Brenda, Georgiev, Yordan M., Petkov, Nikolay, McGlacken, Gerard P., Morris, Michael A., Duffy, Ray and Holmes, Justin D. (2015) Organo-arsenic molecular layers on silicon for high-density doping. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7 (28), 15514-15521. (doi:10.1021/acsami.5b03768).
Gangnaik, Anushka, Georgiev, Yordan M. and Holmes, Justin D. (2015) Correlation of lithographic performance of the electron beam resists SML and ZEP with their chemical structure. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials, Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena, 33 (4), 041601, [041601]. (doi:10.1116/1.4926387).
Gangnaik, Anushka S., Georgiev, Yordan M., Collins, Gillian and Holmes, Justin D. (2016) Novel germanium surface modification for sub-10 nm patterning with electron beam lithography and hydrogen silsesquioxane resist. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials, Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena, 34 (4), 041603. (doi:10.1116/1.4948916).
John, John Wellington, Dhyani, Veerendra, Georgiev, Yordan M., Gangnaik, Anushka S., Biswas, Subhajit, Holmes, Justin D., Das, Amit K., Ray, Samit K. and Das, Samaresh (2020) Ultrahigh negative infrared photoconductance in highly as-doped germanium nanowires induced by hot electron trapping. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2 (7), 1934-1942. (doi:10.1021/acsaelm.0c00245).
Duffy, Ray, Shayesteh, Maryam, Thomas, Kevin, Pelucchi, Emanuele, Yu, Ran, Gangnaik, Anushka, Georgiev, Yordan M., Carolan, Patrick, Petkov, Nikolay, Long, Brenda and Holmes, Justin D. (2014) Access resistance reduction in Ge nanowires and substrates based on non-destructive gas-source dopant in-diffusion. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2 (43), 9248-9257. (doi:10.1039/c4tc02018a).
Contact
Telephone: +44 (0) 23 8059 2650
Email: A.Gangnaik@soton.ac.uk