Career Resume

And here are some details about my professional life.

Past research:

My PhD project was called: "Hybrid Structures for High Order Recursive Filters".

This was an investigation of the synthesis and implementation of high order recursive filters (HORFs) with hybrid filter structures. The aim of the project was to minimise the errors and SQNR of HORF implementations, by using hierarchical hybrid filter structures - Parallel Interconnected Subfilters or Cascade Interconnected Subfilters. I investigated the various procedures for synthesising these types of structures, and examined the comparative performance of resultant HORF implementations.

Current research:

I am currently working on a project, which stems from my PhD, on tunable high order filters. As the characteristics of many acoustic phenomena vary with time, it is useful to study the high order filter structures in the time-varying sense. The idea then, is to try to optimise high order filter structure designs for tunable, time-varying implementations.

Future research:

In general, I am very interested in the use of DSP for audio related applications, especially modelling and synthesis of acoustic sound. In the near future, I would like to investigate signal processing techniques for accurately modelling both the human hearing and speech functions. In the longer term, I would like to remain an active player in the field of audio signal processing and modelling, with particular emphasis on the man-machine interface.

Publications:

M. Price, M. Sandler, "Investigation of a Least Squares Method for High Order Filter Synthesis", Accepted for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1999.

M. Waters, M. Price, M. Sandler, "Synthesis and Performance of a new class of implementation for High Order Recursive Digital Filters", IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, Vol145, No2, p73-81, April 1998.

M. Waters, M. Price, M. Sandler, A. Magrath, "Parallel Interconnection of Cascaded Subfilters: Improved Performance at High Order", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1997.

M. Price, S. Holden, M. Sandler, "Accurate Parallel Form Filter Synthesis", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol32, No22, p2066-2067, 24th Oct 1996.

M. Waters, M. Price, M. Sandler, "Performance Advantage of Hybrid Cascade/Parallel High Order Recursive Filters", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol31, No23, p1983-1984, 9th Nov 1995.

M. Price, M. Sandler, "A New Pole Allocation Procedure for High Order Recursive Filters", Proceedings of le 15eme Colloque sur le Traitement du Signal et des Images, Vol2, p1013-1016, 1995.

M. Price, "A Generalised Algorithm for Synthesis of High Order Recursive Filters", Internal Report of the Signals Circuits and Systems Research Group, No 112/SCS/94, 1994

M. Price, "Synthesis of High Order Recursive Digital Filters", Internal Report of the Signals Circuits and Systems Research Group, No 110/SCS/94, 1994

M. Price, M. Sandler, "Implementation of the IPFE Algorithm for Synthesis of High Order Recursive Filters", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol 2, pp529-532, 1994

M. Price, M. Sandler, "Performance of Novel Structures for High Order Recursive Digital Filters", Digest of IEE 13th Saraga Colloquium on Digital & Analogue Filters and Filtering Systems, 1993

Background:

I was born on the 24th April 1968 on a small housing estate between Stourport and Bewdley in Worcestershire. I lived in Kidderminster Worcestershire for most of my childhood. I left school at the age of 16 with 4 'O' levels, and trained as a Technican in Electronics Engineering for 2 years, on a scheme that was run by the Engineering Industry Training Board. During this time, I worked at the Redman Heenan Training Centre and at Klark Teknik Plc.

By the time I was 19, I had obtained a BTEC NC and a BTEC HC in Electronics Engineering from Worcester Technical College. I worked for NCR in Birmingham for 6 months, and then for Heenan Drives in Worcester for 9 months, following which I was employed by the University of Central England (UCE) - then known as Birmingham Polytechnic - as an Electronics Technician. After 4 years at UCE, I obtained a BEng Electronic Engineering (first class honours), which I had been studying for on a part-time basis.

In October 1992, I went to King's College London to study for a PhD. I completed this in May 1996, shortly after being offered a position as a Graduate Engineer with the BBC R+D department. I started working for BBC R&D in June 1996. In June 1998, I embarked on an 18 month `career-break' from the BBC, with a temporary postdoctoral position at King's College London.