Ayman El-Fatatry

Dr AYMAN EL FATATRY, PhD BSc Ceng, Manager Systems Division at BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre, UK., http://www.baesystems.com

Ayman recieved his BSc from Loughborough University of Technology, UK in 1978 and his PhD from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK in 1986. He joined the General Electric Company's Hirst Research Centre in 1978.

From 1984 to 1989, he worked in the Optical Fibres Division, where he contributed to the development of various novel optical fiber components and to photonics research. From 1990 to 1994 his responsabilities steadily increased including managing R&D in high temperature super-conductivity, vacuum microelec-tronics, micromachining and biosensors, and later Fuzzy Logic Control, vision systems, high performance computing, advanced signal processing techniques and olfaction.

During May 1995, following Hirst's amal-gamation within GEC Marconi Materials Technology (GMMT), Ayman was given charge of a newly formed Applied Tech-nology Laboratory encompassing several additional technologies on Modelling and Simulation, Control and Decision Algo-rithms. In May 1996, He was appointed manager of the Signal Processing, Control and Communications Laboratory, amal-gamating all the theoretical and signal processing activities within one laboratory.

Following the re-organisation of the research centres within Marconi, in 1998, Ayman was appointed Business Group Manager for the Data Analysis & Techniques Group as well as Deputy Manager for the Communications & Information Systems Division based at the Marconi Research Centre. This research establishment has recently become part of BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centres.

Ayman is, currently, manager of the Systems Department of the Advanced Technology Centre. The Department, with 80 staff, has four main Groups of researchers: (1) Space Systems, dealing with SAR signal processing and algorithms, sensor data fusion and ground-station IFMS systems. (2) Intelligence Systems, encompassing work on mathematical techniques, control systems and data processing systems. (3) Communications Systems, directed towards defence applications and the battlespace. (4) Signal Processing Systems for rapid prototyping, noise and vibration control and high performance computing.

Ayman is also the Vice-Chairman of NEXUS, the European network of excellence in multi-functional microsystems and prime co-ordinator of BRAMMS, a European collaborative project on Military MEMS/MST.