 Professor
Alan Murray
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University
of Edinburgh
Email: A.F.Murray@ee.ed.ac.uk
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Professor
Murray received a BSc Hons in Physics at the University of Edinburgh,
and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1978. He worked for 3 years
as a Research Physicist (2 in Canada), and for 3 years as an Integrated
Circuit Design Engineer. In 1984 he was appointed a lecturer in
Electrical Engineering at Edinburgh University, became a Reader
in 1991 and Professor of Neural Electronics in 1994. He is interested
in all aspects of neural computation - and both hardware issues
and applications have been his primary research interest since
1985. In 1986, he developed the "pulse stream" method
for neural integration, which was implemented and extended in
close collaboration with Lionel Tarassenko, from Oxford University's
Department of Engineering Science. His interests have since widened
to include all aspects of neural computation, particularly hardware-compatible
learning schemes, probabilistic neural computation and neural
forms that utilise the temporal- and noisy characteristics of
analogue VLSI - as well as applications of hardware neural networks.
He is also developing a new interest in the interface between
silicon and neurobiology, along with Mike Hunter from the University's
Biomedical Sciences Division and colleagues in Glasgow University.
Alan Murray has over 180 publications, including an undergraduate
textbook and research texts on neural VLSI, applications of neural
networks and noise in neural training (with Peter Edwards). He
is a Fellow of IEE, Senior Member of IEEE, a member of INNS and
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Within the
University, Alan Murray is:
- Departmental
Postgraduate Adviser, dealing with postgraduate recruitment
and guidance
- Convener
of the Faculty Educational Policy Committee
- A Member
of the University's Information Policy Committee
- A Member
of the Faculty Advisory Board on the Public Understanding of
Science, Engineering and Technology (PUSET).
Alan's other
professional contacts include:
- Convener
and Chairman of the Research Committee of the Systems Level
Institute component of the Alba Project in in systems level
integration
- UK Liaison
for the NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) Conference
- A member
of EPSRC's Electronics College
- Editor
of the International Journal of Neural Systems
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