Jonathon Chambers is an expert in adaptive and blind signal processing and their applications in biomedicine and communications. He has been working in these fields for more than 20 years and has co-authored two research monographs, one in nonlinear adaptive signal processing and a second in EEG signal processing, both of which appeared with the academic publisher Wiley, in 2001 and 2007 respectively. He has also published more than 300 conference and journal works, and steered approaching 50 researchers to PhD graduation.
Jonathon has held senior academic positions at Cardiff University, Imperial College, and King's College London, and was delighted to join the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Loughborough University in July 2007. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College 2010.
Jonathon has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE journals, including IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, for more than ten years and is currently an elected member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board. He was the Technical Programme Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Cardiff, held for the first time in the U.K. in 2009. He is also the Co-Technical Programme Chair for the IEEE flagship conference in Signal Processing, ICASSP, to be held in Prague, 2011.
Jonathon was awarded the first QinetiQ Visiting Fellowship in 2007 "for his outstanding contributions to adaptive signal processing and his contributions to QinetiQ" as a result of his successful collaboration with the signal processing team at Malvern. He is also a Guest Professor at Harbin Engineering University, China and he is working with the National Research Foundation in the United Arab Emirates.
Current major research interests: advanced signal processing for wireless communication systems and multimodal technologies (audio-visual) to support human interaction.
Expertise
Adaptive and blind signal processing
Communications
Equalization and inverse modelling
Signal Processing
Wireless Communications
Jonathon's education began in Singapore before continuing in Peterborough. After school he served in the Royal Navy as an artificer apprentice in action, data and control. He then studied for his first-degree in electronic and electrical engineering at the Polytechnic of Central London. He was the top graduate of the Polytechnic in 1985 and was awarded the Robert Mitchell Medal. His supervisor was Professor Gerry Cain, who first sparked his interest in the fascinating field of signal processing. After graduation, he was immediately appointed to the academic staff at the Polytechnic as a Lecturer in Signal Processing.
In 1986 he moved to Peterhouse, Cambridge University, for postgraduate research under the supervision of Professor Peter Rayner within the Department of Engineering. He also studied within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College, under the supervision of Professor Tony Constantinides, from where he gained his PhD in adaptive signal processing in 1990. Following a year of postdoctoral research at Imperial College he joined Schlumberger Cambridge Research for three-years where he applied signal processing techniques to oilfield related problems such as measurements while drilling and volumetric analysis of multiphase flow.
In 1994 he returned to an academic career at Imperial College initially as a Lecturer in Signal Processing and then gaining promotion to a Readership in Signal Processing in 1998. Jonathon and his co-workers received the IEE Hartree Premium from the Informatics Division and the IEE Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium from the Electronics and Communications Divisions for their research findings in adaptive signal processing.
In 2001 he was appointed to a Professorship in Signal Processing at King's College London and served as the Deputy Head of the Division of Engineering. In 2004 he was awarded a five-year Cardiff Professorial Fellowship. He initiated the Signal Separation: Theory and Engineering Relevance (SISTER) Cardiff-QinetiQ Partnership with Professor John McWhirter, FRS.
Jonathon was then delighted to join the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Loughborough University in July 2007 where he now leads the Advanced Signal Processing Group and serves as the Departmental Research Coordinator.
Jonathon has served as an external MSc programme examiner for Bristol, Cambridge, Lancaster and Strathclyde Universities. He has always enjoyed teaching and continues to deliver three modules in signal processing to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His greatest reward, however, is PhD supervision, and he wishes to acknowledge the outstanding researchers with whom he has worked and who have now moved on to many academic and industrial positions throughout the world.
Recent PhD Graduates:
2009 K. Maatoug, Blind Adaptive Algorithms for Channel Shortening in Wireline Communication Systems
2009 S. Cheng, Novel Multiple Antenna Techniques for Improved Diversity in Wireless Communication Systems
2009 S.K. Kassim, Closed-Loop Space-Time Block Coding and Resource Allocation in Collaborative Wireless Networks
2009 F. Alharbi, Peak-to-Average Power Mitigation in MIMO OFDM
2009 S.M. Naqvi, Multimodal Blind Source Separation
2009 L. Leilei, Adaptive Algorithms and Variable Structures for Distributed Estimation
2009 A. Aljohani, Novel Signal Processing Techniques for Single Carrier Multiuser MIMO Wireless Communications
2009 N.E. Eltayeb, Space-Time Coding for Broadband Point-to-Point and Collaborative Wireless Communications
2009 M. Grira, Partial Update Blind Adaptive Channel Shortening Algorithms for Wireline Multicarrier Systems
2008 T. Tsalaile, Digital Signal Processing Algorithms and Techniques for the Enhancement of Lung Sound Measurements
2008 L. Zhang, Advanced Signal Processing for Multi-User MIMO-OFDM
2008 A. Aubrey, Exploiting the Bi-modality of Speech in the Cocktail Party Problem
2008 J. Foster, Algorithms and Techniques for Polynomial Matrix Decompositions
Undergraduate and Postgraduate
ELC056/ELD506/ELP006 Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
ELD508/ELP008 DSP for Software Defined Radio
ELD507/ELP007 Intelligent Signal Processing (Pattern Classification)
Individual Projects
Topics for both undergraduate and postgraduate projects are available
PhD Admission
Jonathon always welcomes enquiries regarding PhD programmes
View all Professor Chambers’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
S.M.R. Naqvi, M. Yu, and J.A. Chambers, “A Multimodal Approach for Blind Source Separation of Moving Sources”, accepted for IEEE Journal Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2010.
J. Foster, J.G. McWhirter, M.R.Davies, and J.A. Chambers, “An Algorithm for Calculating the QR and Singular Value Decompositions of Polynomial Matrices”, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 58(3), pp. 1263-1274, 2010. [Collaboration with Cardiff University]
L. Li, J.A. Chambers, C. Lopes, and A. Sayed, “Distributed Estimation over an Adaptive Incremental Network based on the Affine Projection Algorithm”, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 58(1), pp. 151-164, 2010. [Collaboration with UCLA, USA]
W. Wang, A. Cichocki, and J.A. Chambers, “A multiplicative algorithm for convolutive non-negative matrix factorization based on squared Euclidean distance”, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 57(7), pp. 2858-2863, 2009. [Collaboration with University of Surrey and Riken Lab, Japan]
T. Tsalaile, R. Sameni, S. Sanei, C. Jutten, and J.A. Chambers, “Sequential Blind Source Extraction for Quasi-Periodic Signals with Time-Varying Period”, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 56(3), pp 646- 655, 2009. [Collaboration with GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France]
K. Nazarpour, Y. Wongsawat, S. Sanei, J.A. Chambers and S. Oraintara, “Removal of the Eye-Blink Artifacts from EEGs via STF-TS Modeling and Robust Minimum Variance Beamforming”, IEEE Transactions Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55(9), pp. 2221-2231, Sept. 2008. [Collaboration with Cardiff University]
L.-T. Ong, M. Shikh-Bahaei, and J.A. Chambers, “Variable Rate and Variable Power MQAM System Based on Bayesian Bit Error Rate and Channel Estimation Technicques”, IEEE Transactions Communications, Vol. 56(2), pp. 177-182, Feb. 2008. [Collaboration with King's College]
Y. Zhang, N. Li, J.A. Chambers, and A.H. Sayed, “Steady state performance analysis of a variable tap-length LMS algorithm”, IEEE Transactions Signal Processing, Vol. 56(2), pp. 839-845, Feb. 2008. [Collaboration with UCLA, USA, and Harbin Engineering University, China]
C. Cheong Took, S. Sanei, J.A. Chambers, S. Rickard, and S. Dunne, “Fractional delay estimation for blind source separation and localization of TMD joint sounds”, IEEE Transactions Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55(3), pp. 949-956, July 2007.
C. Toker, S. Lambotharan, and J.A. Chambers, “Joint Transceiver Design for MIMO Channel Shortening”, IEEE Transactions Signal Processing, Vol. 55, pp. 3851-3866, 2007.
