William Allan Sandham

William Allan Sandham is Managing Director of Scotsig, an independent signal and image processing research, consultancy, and training company, based in Glasgow, Scotland, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Strathclyde. He received the B.S. (with honors) degree from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Birmingham, England, in 1981, for a thesis entitled “Remote sensing of the ocean surface using MF/HF radar” He worked as a Medical Physicist at the Department of Clinical Physics and Bioengineering, Glasgow, from 1974–1976, and was a Geophysicist with the British National Oil Corporation and Britoil, from 1980–1986. From 1986–2003, he was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Professor Sandham has published over 130 technical papers and 5 books, is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and Member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He has served on a number of IEEE and other Editorial Boards, and the conference organizing committees of ICASSP (Glasgow, 1989), TA-91 (Glasgow 1991), and EUSIPCO (Edinburgh, 1994). He was Chairman of the IEEE International Workshop on Parallel Architectures for Seismic Data Processing (Glasgow, 1991), the EAGE International Workshop on Geophysical Applications of Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic (Geneva, 1997), and the IET Medical Signal and Information Processing Conference (MEDSIP) (Glasgow, 2006). He has been an invited lecturer at a number of research institutions across the UK, Europe, and South America, and has acted as a consultant for the Kelvin Institute, British Gas, BP, Shell EXPRO, Appleton Laboratory, and C-CORE (Newfoundland), amongst others. His current research interests include MRI segmentation, ECG data analysis and compression, blood glucose prediction for diabetics, sleep apneoa detection, and so forth.

Biography Updated on 21 October 2007