Andy Aftelak

• 1986 - 1990:    Loughborough University, United Kingdom, PhD by research: Carrier Phase and Timing Synchronization for Satellite Modems
• 1982 - 1986     Loughborough University, United Kingdom, BSc in Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 1^st class (Hons), top of year

• Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
  
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member of the Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers

• Member of the Motorola Science Advisory Board

Andy’s current research interests are spread across:

• application of software defined networking techniques applied to modern telecommunication networks
• digital processing of multimedia streams to extract semantic meaning
• big data analytics and its application to smart cities
• health and wellbeing
• the media industry
• internet of things networks.

Andy has a long and varied technical career. After 3 years designing communications equipment for the space industry in a start up, he started his 20-year career with Motorola as a research engineer and director of UK research for Motorola Labs at Basingstoke, working on digital wireless communication systems for public safety customers in European. He participated in developing the ETSI TETRA standard for public safety wireless, and developed much of the wireless, modem and software technology. He has a very varied technical knowledge of modern communications systems, human factors processes and user-centric research, knowledge technologies, software development tools and processes, speech coding and recognition and communication networks. This has been gained through a series of technical leadership positions, such as the director of Motorola’s UK research lab, the deputy director of Motorola’s European research labs, operations and strategy director of the centre for applications research in the USA, head of Motorola Labs and Vice President of Research at Motorola Mobility.

Andy’s last role in industry was vice-president and director of ARRIS’s Applied Research Center, where he led the team that creates new products and services for the cable and IP TV industry.