Head of the School of Engineering & Electronics, and Professor of Electronic Signal Processing, University of Edinburgh.
Professor Grant’s primary research interests are applying signal and information processing techniques for application in mobile communication and radar systems. In 2004 the IEE awarded its most prestigious honour, the Faraday Medal to Professor Grant in recognition of his outstanding work on signal processing. Professor Grant was the IEEE Signal Processing Society distinguished lecturer on DSP for Mobile Communications in 1998, which took him on a lecturing tour to 25 countries. He was previously President of EURASIP, the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing. He was the Chair of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering panel in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise serving previously on the 1992 and 1996 panels. He was an IEE Proceedings editor for 18 years. He is a director of the ISLI in Livingston, the Mobile VCE and the Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre. He also a member of the Supervisory Board for the Defence Technology Centre in “Electromagnetic and Remote Sensing” with an annual research spend of £5m.
