Group Members

Dr. John F. Snowdon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, from which he received his PhD in 1990. He has 15 years experience of optoelectronic systems and has authored some 50 papers in this area. Dr. Snowdon runs the Optically Interconnected Computing (OIC) Group and has been a Principal Investigator in EPSRC, EU and industrially funded projects. The expertise of his group is in using optoelectronic techniques to defeat bottlenecks in computational and communication systems. The OIC group has a strong experimental program which has been responsible for the design of a series of optoelectronic demonstrator systems. The group has an acknowledged leading international role with invited and contributed papers at all major conferences in the field. He is a member of the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Optical Society of America (OSA)

E-mail: J.F.Snowdon who's at hw.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (131) 4513026
Fax: +44 (131) 4513136
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Dr. Gordon A. Russell is a research associate in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He received his PhD in Analysis and Modelling of Optically Interconnected Computing Systems in 2004. His current research is in using the inherently high bandwidth of optics to alleviate the bottlenecks in current processor-memory interfaces and the addition of optical links to FPGA technologies. He is a member of the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

E-mail: g.a.russell who's at hw.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (131) 4518058
Fax: +44 (131) 4513136
Web: http://optogeek.homelinux.net

Craig J. Moir is a PhD student in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He is finishing his thesis, the title of which is "Architecture and Tolerancing of Optical Interconnects for Parallel Computation". This includes chapters on the design and physical modelling of various optical interconnects including Monte-Carlo simulation of systems. Design work was also completed on various matrix algorithms and their implementation on optical topologies. Included with this theoretical base is validation of optical highways controlled via FPGAs.

During his time with the OIC group, Craig has also written an 18 month EPSRC proposal that is currently being reviewed. He has previously worked at Bookham Technology for almost 3 years and while a student has completed consultancy work for Conjunct and Helia. CPhys MInstP MIEE."

E-mail: phycjm1 who's at hw.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (131) 4518059
Fax: +44 (131) 4513136
Web: http://www.craigmoir.co.uk

Srinivasarao "Srinu" Kumpatla is currently studying for a PhD in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. Srinu is working on the High-Speed Optoelectronic Memory Systems [HOLMS] project, which is funded by EPSRC & EU IST programme. Also, he is investigating the Negative Index Phenomenon in birefringent and photonic crystals.

Professional Affiliation: Associate Member of the Institute of Physics [IOP], Student Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers [IEEE] and Optical Society of America [OSA].

E-mail: sk5 who's at hw.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (131) 4513649
Fax: +44 (131) 4513136
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Raphael Gil-Ortero is a PhD student in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He is currently working on the POCA (Programmible Optoelectronic Computer Architectures) Project.

E-mail: rg22 who's at hw.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (131) 4518060
Fax: +44 (131) 4513136
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Dr. Josh J. Casswell was a research associate in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He received his PhD in 2004.

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Dr. Keith J. Symington is a former enterprise fellow in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He received his PhD in Optically Interconnected Computing Systems in 2002. He is currently CEO of Conjunct Limited.

E-mail: kjsymington who's at iee.org
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Web: http://www.conjunct.co.uk

Ruby Raheem is currently a Ph.D. student (Optics/Physics) in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University working in the Waves and Fields Group.

E-mail: r.raheem who's at hw.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (131) 4513061
Fax: +44 (131) 4513136
Web: http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~phyhic/People%20Pages/Ruby's%20Bio.htm

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