The School of Engineering and Digital Arts in the Faculty of Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury has won 3 prestigious EPSRC research awards this month.
Dr Nathan Gomes (PI), Prof Jiangzhou Wang and Dr Huiling Zhu were awarded £1.1 Million (£490,000 for Kent) for their Towards and Intelligent Infrastructure proposal entitled “NIRVANA: Intelligent, heterogeneous, virtualised networking infrastructure”. The Kent led project will be in collaboration with the University of Essex, JDSU UK Ltd, Everything Everywhere Ltd, Qualcomm Cambridge Ltd, BT Innovate, Techgate PLC and NEC Telecom MODUS Ltd. Towards and Intelligent Infrastructure is one of EPSRC’s priority areas for 2014-2015 and the Kent project was ranked number 1, nationally, by the EPSRC expert panel. The three-year project will start later in the year and promises to be one to watch.
Prof Yong Yang from EDA and Dr Xue Wang from the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS) have been awarded £170,000 (£136,000 for Kent) for their project “CO2 Flow metering through multi-modal sensing and statistical data fusion“. The grant was awarded by the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) who are supported by the EPSRC and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
Dr Jim Ang and Dr Luca Marcelli were awarded £50,000 (£36,000 for Kent) for a pilot study from the Sustainable Society Network+, entitled “Supporting data-driven urban agriculture with ‘Internet of Plants’ technology”. The six-month project is in collaboration with the University of Greenwich and Capital Growth.