Embedded Systems with Management Studies MSc: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing teaches this course. The Faculty's wide selection of undergraduate and postgraduate courses covers a diverse range of subject areas, from aerospace to geography; from maths and computing to biotechnology; and many more. Our collaborative set-up provides new opportunities for our students, and we design our courses with industry professionals to ensure you stay up to date with the latest developments.

Computing and Information Systems

The School of Computing and Information Systems offers high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate courses, designed to reflect the developing needs of business and industry. We deliver our teaching in an exciting and challenging learning environment, and make use of modern, well-equipped facilities.

Our courses cover the range of modern technologies in computer science, information systems and software engineering, with specialisations in games technology; network and wireless technologies; information security; electronic business; and embedded systems.

Dr Sergio Velastin

Title: Course director for Embedded Systems MSc
Email: sergio.velastin@kingston.ac.uk 

Dr Sergio Velastin is the course director for the Embedded Systems MSc and director of the University's Digital Imaging Research Centre, one of the biggest groups of its type in the UK and Europe.

Staff here conduct research into the processing of images and video for a range of applications including visual surveillance (CCTV), medical imaging and intelligent spaces.  In most applications it is desirable to demonstrate results in real-time – Sergio therefore has a special interest in embedded systems especially for the processing, transmission and display of digital media.

Sergio was involved in the development and launch of the Embedded Systems MSc and worked in close consultation with industrial partners such as NXP Semiconductors, BAe Systems, BT and Kane Computing.

Message from Sergio Velastin

"I conceived and direct the Embedded Systems MSc as I believe there are a wealth of opportunities in dedicated (or 'embedded') devices that combine hardware and software typically with sophisticated user interfaces, communications capabilities, sensing and so on. One only needs to look at the current generation of mobile phones to see the need to have people with experience and background on how to make best use of limited computing resources and on how software needs to interact with the real world.

I am looking forward to meeting you at Kingston. Meanwhile, if you have any specific questions about the course, please get in touch.

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Professor Andrzej Ordys

Title: Professor of automotive engineering and leader of the Industrial Control Research Group
Email: a.ordys@kingston.ac.uk 

Specialist subjects: Professor Ordys is a chartered engineer, a member of the IET and a senior member of the IEEE. He currently teaches electronics and control; mechatronics; engine technology; automotive systems; and advanced automotive electronics. His research interests include:

• embedded systems in automotive applications;
• hybrid control of fast and high-precision mechanical systems;
• performance assessment of control systems;
• stochastic and predictive control theory; and
• the theory of benchmarking control algorithms.

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Dr Miroslav Novak

Title: Principal lecturer and director of postgraduate programmes
Email: novak@kingston.ac.uk 

Dr Novak is the director of postgraduate programmes for the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing. He is responsible for the taught MSc degrees' quality; academic coherence; management; and operation.

Dr Novak has been teaching and researching in universities across Europe and Australia since the late '70s. By training a theoretical physicist, his work on the first supercomputer in the UK, the Cray 1S, introduced him to vector computation and led to a series of published papers. He has published 11 books and is the author of more than 40 research papers.

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