Dr. Nigel Newton

Reader

Department of Electronic Systems Engineering,

University of Essex,

Wivenhoe Park,

Colchester,

CO4 3SQ,

Room: 1NW.3.15

Tel: int+44 1206 872932

Fax: int+44 1206 872900

Email: <njn@essex.ac.uk>

Brief Summary of Career

I was an undergraduate at Bath University, obtaining a B.Sc. (Hons. 1) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1978. After spending a year at a research and development division of EMI Electronics Ltd., where I had previously spent training periods as a sponsored student, I joined the Control Group at Imperial College as a research student under the supervision of Dr. J.M.C. Clark. I received the Ph.D degree of the University of London and the Diploma of Imperial College in January 1984. Between March 1983 and August 1984 I worked as a Research Assistant with the Industrial Systems Group at Imperial College. In October 1984 I took up a post as Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at Essex University, where I am currently a Reader. I am also currently a Research Affiliate of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, USA.

In 1991/92 I spent 8 months as an Invited Researcher at INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, France, and 5 months as a Visiting Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, USA.

In 1999/2000 I spent 4 months as a Visiting Scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, USA, 4 months as an Invited Researcher at INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, France, and 4 months as an Invited Researcher at IRISA, France.

In 2004 I spent 2 months as a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, USA.

Research

My research interests include:

nonlinear filtering and stochastic control
information theory and connections with statistical mechanics
numerical methods for stochastic systems
digital communication over noisy channels with application to mobile systems
performance engineering for telecommunication networks
modelling and numerical techniques in finance
Monte Carlo methods

I am an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, and the Journal of Monte Carlo Methods and Applications. I am a member of the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents and the Centre for Systems Biology at Essex.

You can view a list of my recent publications here.

Teaching

Courses currently taught:

EE901: Theory of Signals and Systems (M.Sc.)
EE103: Circuits and Signals (Year 1 undergraduate)
CC255: Operating Systems and Networks (Year 2 undergraduate)

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Last updated: 10 vii2005