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Geoff Merrett is Professor of Electronic and Software Systems at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. He is Head of the , a strategic in the (ECS), and Co-Director of the , an industrial partnership between and . He received the BEng (1st, Hons) and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He was appointed as a Lecturer shortly after, promoted to Associate Professor in 2014, and Professor in 2019. He is a Senior Member of the , a Member of , and a Fellow of the .
Professor Merrett has served on the (SAT) for the since 2019, advising on new research areas and strategy. He is a member of the Steering Group (an EPSRC-funded network representing the UK’s electronic systems academic community), having previously served on its ECR Steering Group, and co-manages the UK’s (co-organising its annual event from 2011-2016). He is a member of and the , and also reviews proposals for Italy’s (serving on , the Register of Expert Peer-Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation) and the . He is an active reviewer for a number of prestigious international journals, and serves on a number of TPCs for international conferences (e.g. Track Chair at DATE2023). He was a founder of the (ENSsys, co-located with the conference), serving as General Chair from 2013-15, and on its steering/organisation committees since 2016. He is a member of the Editorial Board for , and previously served as an Associate Editor for and . He has been guest editor for special issues on , , , and . He co-edited the IET book on , containing contributed by leading international researchers.
He currently leads a team of , having previously graduated and line-managed and . The quality of his PhD students has been externally recognised, for example winning the University's competition in 2015, receiving Silver at , receiving the Gold Medal at Malaysia's , and winning the Best of Faculty award at the University's . He has been external examiner for 16 PhD theses, including students at Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, TU Delft, TU Dresden, Bologna, Newcastle, and York.
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