Michael Ng's Teaching and Research Site

Postgraduate School:

• Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS) postgraduate portal
• FEPS PhD Admission Portal
• Management
• Graduate School Director: Alan McAlpine am@isvr.soton.ac.uk
• Doctoral Programme Director (COMP): Mark Weal mjw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
• Doctoral Programme Director (ELEC): Michael Ng sxn@ecs.soton.ac.uk
• Penny: feps-gradschool@soton.ac.uk
• PhD admission: feps-pgr-apply@soton.ac.uk
• ECS PGR Training: Prof. Lie-Liang Yang (Director, Teacher), Nawfal Fadhel (Teacher)
• Funding: Leonardo Aniello
• Finance and other contacts: R.A.Franklin@soton.ac.uk  
• SCB: on rolling basis
• FEPS Sharepoint site
• ECS PGR webpage
• PGR Blackboard
• SSLC
• Graduate School Board
• Head of School Office, Senior Faculty Administrator: Amanda Goodacre
• Report
• Report: Missed deadlines: [13/12; 10/1; 7/2; 6/3; 10/4; 15/5; 12/6; 10/7]
• Remote Desktop
• Supervisor loading: 80+20; 80+10+10. Max 80, min 10: sum=100.

PGR Handbook: FEPS : ECS

PGR Handbook: pgrhandbook.page

PGR Code of Practice: University site

PGR manager: link, meeting guidance, issues and fixes

PGR tracker: link

PGR induction 2021/2022: link

COMP8001 module.

Training for students: OTD1, OTD2

Training for supervisors: slides

ECS research groups.

Research groups (ELEC):

• X Biomedical Electronics : Prof. Hywel Morgan :
• X Centre for Electronics Frontiers : Prof. Themis Prodromakis : Emilie Gerouville
• Electrical Power Engineering (EPE): Prof. George Chen : Xiwen Wu
• Next Generation Wireless (NGW): Prof. Lajos Hanzo : Dingzhao Wang
• Smart Electronic Materials and Systems (SEMS): Prof. Nick Harris: Alexander Todorov
• Sustainable Electronic Technologies (SET): Prof. Kees De Groot :

Research groups (COMP):

• Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group (AIC): Enrico Gerding
• Cyber Physical Systems Research Group (CPS): Steve Gunn
• Cyber Security Research Group (Cyber): Vladi Sassone
• X IT Innovation Centre
• Vision, Learning and Control Research Group (VLC): Adam Prugel-Bennett
• Web and Internet Science Research Group (WAIS): Leslie Carr
• Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering (DHBE) : Age Chapman : Eryn Rigley

PhD Progression Steps:

1. Supervisory team update
2. Data Management Plan, submission
3. Ethics, submission
4. First progression review
5. Confirmation Review Report
6. Third progression review
7. Examination, intention to submit
8. Examination, appointment of examiners
9. Examination, submission

REGULATIONAS for Research Degrees: link; local copy

Application: link

Files: link

Useful links:

• Web Room Booking
• Campus map
• Building info
• Health and safety
• Qlikview Clickview: check supervisor load
• https://www.southampton.ac.uk/uni-life/international/your-country.page

Dates: ECS Head of Group Meeting

14/9, 5/10, 2/11, 7/12, 11/01, 1/02, 1/03, 30/03 (April meeting), 3/05, 7/06, 5/07.

Main contacts of each school:

• ECS
  • Head: Prof. Tim Norman <T.J.Norman@soton.ac.uk>
  • DPDs: Michael Ng <sxn@ecs> and Mark Weal <mjw@ecs>
• Zepler Institute
  • Head: Prof. Sir David Payne <dnp@orc.soton.ac.uk>
  • DPD: Nikitas Papasimakis <np3@orc.soton.ac.uk>
• Physics and Astronomy
  • Head: Prof. Mark Sullivan <M.Sullivan@soton.ac.uk>
  • DPD: Robert Fear <R.C.Fear@soton.ac.uk>
• Chemistry
  • Head: Prof. Jonathan Essex <J.W.Essex@soton.ac.uk>
  • DPD: Marina Carravetta <M.Carravetta@soton.ac.uk>
• Engineering
  • Head: Prof. David Richards <djr@soton.ac.uk>
  • DPD: Ioannis Kaparias <I.Kaparias@southampton.ac.uk>

Other key peoples in FEPS

PGR notes on progression

Data management plan and ethic

PhD start dates: Sept, Jan, May and July.

For 2022/2023: 26.09.22 | 30.01.23 | 02.05.23 | 03.07.23

Mailing Lists:

feps-pgr@all.soton.ac.uk for all research postgraduates in faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

chem-pgr@all.soton.ac.uk  All research postgraduates in School of Chemistry

pa-pgr@soton.ac.uk        All research postgraduates in School of Physics & Astronomy

zepler-pgr@soton.ac.uk All research postgraduates in Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics

ecs-pgr@soton.ac.uk  All research postgraduates in School of Electronics and Computer Science

Important Notes:

PGRs are allowed to spend more than £1,200 a year, as long as they do not go over their £3,600 total.