William Sandham

William Sandham serves as a Managing Director of Scotsig, a signal and image processing research, consultancy and training company, based in Glasgow, and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Bioengineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and Department of Electronics, Javeriana University, Colombia. He received the B.S. degree (with honors) from the University of Glasgow 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, was a Research Geophysicist with the British National Oil Corporation and Britoil from 1980-1986, and an Academic at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow from 1986-2003. Professor Sandham has published over 150 technical papers and 5 books, is a Fellow of the IET, Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the EAGE and SEG. He has served on a number of IEEE and other professional journals' Editorial Boards, and served on the Conference Organizing Committees of ICASSP (Glasgow, 1989), TA-91 (Glasgow, 1991), and EUSIPCO (Edinburgh, 1994). He served as Chairman of the IET Medical Signal and Information Processing Conference (2006), and the IET Symposium on Diabetes Technology (2008). 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, long-period multiple suppression, prosthetic limb fitting, medical ultrasound, and diabetes technology.

Biography Updated on 1 November 2010

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