Professor Tughrul Arslan holds the Chair of Integrated Electronic Systems in the School of Engineering and Electronics in the University of Edinburgh and is also a co-founder and the Chief Technical Officer of SpiralGateway Ltd. He is a member of the Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS) Institute and Leads the System Level Integration group (SLIg) in the University. His research interests include: low power system design, integrated micro and nano systems, secure and long life wireless sensor networks, autonomous systems, System-On-Chip (SoC) Architectures, Evolvable intelligent systems, Multi-objective optimisation, and studying autonomous self-adaptive behaviour in general. He has published more than 300 articles and is the inventor of a number of patents in these areas ( in order to view a list of his publications in these areas click here" ).
Professor Arslan was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and systems I and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and sits on the editorial board of IET Proceedings on Computers and Digital Techniques. He has chaired and been involved in steering committees of neumerous international conferences. Recently he was the general chair for the NASA/ESA conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS) and the ECSIS Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for security Symposium (BLISS). He is also a member of the IEEE CAS Committee on VLSI Systems and applications, and on the organisational/technical committees of a number of international conferences.
Professor Arslan is/was a principal investigator on a number of projects funded by EPSRC, DTI, Scottish Enterprise together with a number of industrial and academic partners. To view these projects click here.
1993 PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hull with Ericsson Telecom. Scunthorpe, UK.
1993-1995 Fixed-Term Lecturer, Cardiff University of Wales, School of Engineering.
1995-1998 Permanent Lecturer in Digital Systems, Cardiff University of Wales, School of Engineering,
1995-1998 Director, Cardiff Advanced Integrated Circuit Design Centre.
06/1997-08/1997 Royal Society Fellowship, Electro-technical Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science and technology (AIST), Agency of MITI, Tsukuba, Japan.
1998-2002 Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh.
October 2002-September 2004 Reader
April-December 2003, Research Scientist, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA.
May 2004- to date Chief Technical Officer, SpiralGateway Ltd.
October 2004 - to date Professor, Chair of Integrated Electronic Systems
Professor Arslan is also a member of the academic staff at The Institute for System Level Integration where he is the module Coordinator for the Intellectual Property Block Authoring (IPBA) Module and jointly teaches the VLSI Design module together with Dr. D. Cumming (Glasgow University).
Professor Arslan is a member of the Institute research committee. He is the principal supervisor of a number of Engineering Doctorate projects sponsored by Hitachi MicroSystems (Maidenhead), Epson-Scotland (Livingstone), ATMEL, and Snell & Wilcox, and MED(Edinburgh). platforms, architectures, and algorithms for applications such as smart crads, GSM, and speech coding.
Professor Arslan is also one of the principal investigators involved in the multi-campus IDEAS project. He is responsible for the developement low power communication algorithms/architectures for the SoC platform used in the project. To view details of this project click here
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Dr Arslan was a member of the Committee of the IEE Professional Group A2 on Hardware Systems Engineering (1996-2000). He is currently a member of the committee of the IEE Professional Network on Embedded Systems. He is also on the editorial Board of the IEE Proceedings on Computers and Digital Techniques.
Dr. Arslan is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Part I (Regular Papers- from January 2004) He is also a member of the Technical Committee for the following conferences:
The Annual IEEE Conference on ASIC/SOC 99/2000/2001/2002/2003/2004 The conference is held in Washigton DC, USA.
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002, 2004, and 2005). The conference will be held in Kobe, Japan.
NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (2002-2005). The conference this year will be held in Washington DC USA.
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