Professor Desmond Taylor
Positions
- Professor
- 3rd Professional Year Coordinator
Qualifications
BSc(Eng), MSc(Eng)(Queen's), PhD(McM.), FEIC, LFIEEE, FIPENZ, FRSNZ, P.Eng(Ontario)
Room
Electrical A403
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2213 ext 6213
Fax: +64 3 364 2761
desmond.taylor@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal Address
Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Background
Desmond P. Taylor was born in Noranda , Quebec , Canada on July 5, 1941. He received the B.Sc.( Eng. ) and M.Sc.( Eng. ) degrees from Queen's University, Kingston , Ontario , Canada in 1963 and 1967 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in 1972 in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University , Hamilton , Ontario , Canada . From July 1972 until June 1992, He was with the Communications Research Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering of McMaster University. In July 1992, he joined the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand where he is the Tait Professor of Communications. His research interests are centred on digital wireless communications systems with a primary focus on the development of robust, bandwidth-efficient modulation and coding techniques, and the development of iterative algorithms for joint equalisation and decoding of the fading, dispersive channels typical of mobile radio communications. Secondary interests include problems in synchronisation, multiple access and networking. He is the author or co-author of approximately 225 published papers and holds two U.S. patents in spread spectrum communications. One paper won the S.O. Rice Award for the best Transactions paper in Communication Theory of 2001.
He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Fellow of both the Engineering Institute of Canada and the Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand.
Undergraduate Courses 2013
- ENEL290 - Waves and Materials in Electrical Engineering
- ENEL300 - Electrical and Computer Design 2
- ENEL420 - Advanced Signals
- ENEL422 - Communications Engineering
Postgraduate research available
Current Postgraduate Students
Please refer to Communications Research Group website
Research Interests
- Coded modulation theory and practice
- Wireless communications systems
- Channel estimation and equalisation
- Optimal receiver structures
- Reduced complexity systems and DSP implementations
- Space Time Coded Systems