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Martin Fleury is a senior lecturer in the Department of Electronics Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. Martin holds a BA (hons) in Modern History (Oxford University) and a Maths/Physics-based degree (hons) from the Open University in 1988. He took an MSc in Astrophysics from QMW College, University of London in 1990 and an MSc in Parallel Computing Systems (Dist.) in 1991 from the University of the South West. His first MSc thesis was concerned with non-baryonic matter in the universe and his second MSc thesis was concerned with the parallel processing of pulse-doppler radar systems. He has worked as a commercial programmer and as a government accountant. He also has teaching qualifications, but in 1990 he decided to leave his secondary school teaching post (in charge of computing), in favour of higher education.

From 1992 to 1995, he was employed as a researcher in parallel reconfigurable image-processing systems at Essex, as a result of which he gained a PhD. Martin was awarded a best postgraduate paper award from British Telecom, Martlesham Labs. at the same time. From 1995, he worked as a Senior Research Officer on a parallel signal-processing project. On completion of the project, and before taking up a lectureship at Essex, he undertook a short-term fellowship with British Telecom, when he researched real-time speech-recognition. Martin now runs or has run undergraduate and masters courses on digital design, computer microarchitecture, real-time computer graphics, parallel and distributed computing, real-time computing, hardware/software codesign, object-oriented software, operating systems, and computer networks. He is currently Director of Graduates (Research) for his department. He is also an external examiner for the Arab Open University based in Kuwait.

Martin has published one hundred and sixty journal articles, conference research papers, book chapters, and a book and has made contributions to low-level image- and signal-processing algorithms, the performance prediction of parallel systems, software engineering, real-time vision systems, and networked video. He is a reviewer for many journals including the IEEE Transactions series. His research interests are in packet video over wireless networks, hardware/software co-design, document compression, (parallel) image-processing algorithms, network security, network measurement and simulation, and parallel programming environments. He has managed several three-year research projects on parallel computing and on networked video. He is an external PhD examiner. Martin is a member of the IET and the IEEE.

Martin's personal interests are in art history and chess. He is particularly interested in 19th century and early 20th century painting. He reads French literature and is even improving his spoken German. Martin paints in acrylics and oils, as well as in water-colours. He played chess for Oxford University obtaining a blue, English counties, as well as for many clubs, and in tournaments. His main chess activity now is correspondence chess for Essex county. He enjoys cycling, mountaineering, inline roller-skating and white water rafting. He has spent many years winter mountaineering in the Scottish West Highlands but now prefers warmer climes. His recent interest is in treking and, having returned from Morocco's Anti-Atlas mountains, he re-learnt the rudiments of Turkish, for a trek in the Taurus Mts. He has now completed the 160 km Mont Blanc Tour over high Alpine passes and mountains, spending 14 days under canvas. He recently travelled the length of VietNam.

2010: Scotland Arran         Mt. Blanc.              Madeira's Pico Ruivo.