Chair in  Engineering

MEng, MSc, PhD, CEng, MIET, MIEEE
T: +44 (0)116 252 5372
F: +44 (0)116 223 1369
E: t.vladimirova@le.ac.uk

Location: Room 1001, Engineering Tower

Introduction

Prof. Tanya Vladimirova has recently joined the Department of Engineering, University of Leicester. Before that she was a Reader at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, and a senior member of the Surrey Space Centre, where she founded and led the Microelectronics Design and Embedded Systems research group. She has been active in research in very large scale integration (VLSI) design and computer systems engineering for space applications and has authored and co-authored over 150 published papers. She has been involved in a large number of research projects concerned with integrated circuit design (FPGAs and ASICs), reconfigurable computing, wireless sensor networks, distributed processing, computational intelligence techniques and image processing for use on board satellites. 15 PhD students have successfully completed their PhD studies under her supervision.

Tanya is a Visiting Professor to the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, a Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College for the period 2006-2011. She acts a European expert for assessment of research proposals and projects funded under the EU Framework programme. Previous professional activities undertaken by her are as follows:
 - Session Organiser for the IEEE Aerospace Conference,  2009-2011.
 - Member of the Steering Committee of the CubeSat research network, part of the Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network, 2009-2010.
 - Member of the executive team of the IET Professional Network “Microelectronics and Embedded Systems” (formerly “System-on-chip”), 2002-2007.
 - Co-Chair of the Annual International NASA Conference on Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Logic Devices, MAPLD, 2000-2006.
 - Visiting Professor to the School of Engineering of Shandong University, Jinan, China, 2005-2006. 
 - Tan Chin Tuan Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2004. 
 - Associate Editor for the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA), 2000-2002.
 - International expert for the National Science Foundation (USA), NTU Singapore, etc..

Research

Tanya's research projects can be divided into four streams:
1. High-performance data and image processing in embedded systems.
2. Hardware acceleration of computationally intensive DSP algorithms using FPGAs and ASICs.
3. VLSI system-on-a-chip design for hostile environments with a focus on reliability and low power.
4. Distributed collaborative processing in wireless sensor networks.

The application domains that she has addressed are aerospace and medical analysis.

At present, Tanya is involved with two FP7 research projects, coordinated by EADS, on collision avoidance in satellite networks and multi-sensor data and information fusion for detection of anti-personnel mines.

Current PhD projects address topics such as compression of hyperspectral satellite imagery aiming at software and hardware implementation and inter-satellite links design for CubeSat networks using WiFi. 

Recent Journal Publications

T. Vladimirova, M. Fayyaz, M.N.Sweeting, V.I. Vitanov. “A Novel Autonomous Low Cost On-Board Data Handling Architecture for a Pin-Point Planetary Lander” - Acta Astronautica , vol. 68, N 7-8, April-May 2011, pp. 811-829.

T. Vladimirova and S. Yuhaniz. “An Intelligent Decision-Making System for Flood Monitoring from Space” – Soft Computing Journal, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 13-24, Springer.

S. S. Yuhaniz and T. Vladimirova. “An On-Board Automatic Change Detection System for Disaster Monitoring” – International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 30, No. 23, December 2009, pp. 6121–6139, Taylor & Francis.

 D.J. Barnhart, T. Vladimirova, A.M. Baker and M.N. Sweeting. “A Low-Cost Femtosatellite to Enable Distributed Space Missions” – Acta Astronautica, Vol. 64, Issues 11-12, June-July 2009, pp. 1123-114.

 G. Yu, T. Vladimirova and M.N. Sweeting. “Image Compression Systems on Board Satellites” – Acta Astronautica, Vol. 64, No. 9-10, May-June 2009, pp. 988-1005.

D.J. Barnhart, T. Vladimirova, M.N. Sweeting, K.S. Stevens. “Radiation Hardening by Design of Asynchronous Logic for Hostile Environments” – IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 44, No. 5, May 2009, pp. 1617-1628.

D.J. Barnhart, T. Vladimirova and M.N. Sweeting. “Satellite Miniaturization Techniques for Space Sensor Networks” – AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 46, No. 2, March – April 2009, pp. 469-472.

 R. Banu and T. Vladimirova. “Fault-Tolerant Encryption for Space Applications” – IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 1, January 2009, pp. 266-279.

D.J. Barnhart, T. Vladimirova and M.N. Sweeting. “Very Small Satellite Design for Distributed Space Missions” - AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 44, No. 6, November/December 2007, pp 1294-1306.

Recent Conference Publications

J.R. Paul and T. Vladimirova. "Design of a Wireless Link for SpaceWire Networks" – Proceedings of the 3rd International SpaceWire Conference 2010, 22-24 June 2010, pp. 423-427, Eds. S.Parkes, Y. Sheynin, and M. Suess, St.Petersburg, Russia.

M. Fayyaz and T. Vladimirova. "Fault Tolerant SpaceWire Routing Topology and Protocol" - Proceedings of the 3rd International SpaceWire Conference 2010, 22-24 June 2010, pp. 407 – 410, Eds. S.Parkes, Y. Sheynin, and M. Suess, St.Petersburg, Russia.

T. Vladimirova, C.P. Bridges, J.R. Paul, S.A. Malik and M.N. Sweeting. "Space-Based Wireless Sensor Networks: Design Issues" - Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 6-13 March 2010, pp. 1–14, March 20010, Big Sky, MT.

T. Vladimirova and J.R. Paul. "Implementation of an IEEE802.11a Transmitter Module for a Reconfigurable System-on-a-Chip Design" - Proceedings of 4^th NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), 29 July 29 – 1August, 2009, San Francisco, California, USA, pp. 305-312. 

G. Yu, T. Vladimirova, and M.N. Sweeting. "FPGA-Based On-Board Multi/Hyperspectral image Compression System" – Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’09), Cape Town, South Africa, 7-11 July 2009, Vol. 5, pp. V-212 - V-215 (Invited paper in special session on High Performance Computing For Hyperspectral Image Analysis).

T. Vladimirova, M.N. Sweeting, I. Vitanov, and V.I. Vitanov. "Emergency Response Networks for Disaster Monitoring and Detection from Space" – Proceedings of SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference vol. 7347 “Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computation: Theory and Applications III”, 13-17 April 2009, Orlando, Florida, US (Invited paper in Special Session on "Situational awareness from space and airborne platforms").

R. Balthazor, M. McHarg, D.J. Barnhart and T. Vladimirova. “Ionospheric Multiple Plasma Sensors - A Distributed Space-Based Sensor Network” - Proceedings of 2009 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 7-14 March 2009, pp. 1 – 10, March 2009, Big Sky, MT.

C.P. Bridges and T. Vladimirova. "Agent Computing Applications in Distributed Satellite Systems" – Proceeding of 9^th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2009), Athens, Greece, March 23-25, 2009, pp. 201-208, IEEE, ISBN 978-1-4244-4327-7.

 T. Vladimirova and G. Yu. "An Image Compression System for Earth Observation Satellites" – Proceedings of International Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, DASIP 2008, pp. 192-199, November 24-26, 2008, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

 T. Vladimirova and K. Sidibeh. "WLAN for Earth Observation Satellite Formations in LEO" – Proceedings of 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS’08) pp. 119-124, August 4-6, Edinburgh, 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press.

G.Yu, T. Vladimirova, M. Sweeting. "An Efficient On-Board Lossless Compression Design for Remote Sensing Image Data" – Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS’2008, 7-11 July 2008, Vol. 2,  pp. II-970 - II-973, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.