Andrew Markham
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Dr Andrew Markham
Research Assistant
andrew.markham@cs.ox.ac.uk
+44 1865 (6) 10809
Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD |
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News
Dec 2011: Journal paper on underground tracking in 3-D has been accepted to appear in IEEE Sensors Journal. Early Access available here.
Jun 2011: A short article on the underground badger tracking system appeared on the BBC website.
Apr 2011: Our WildSensing paper has been accepted to ACM TOSN.
Mar 2011: I have been awarded an EPSRC cross-disciplinary research fellowship. This will commence in October 2011 and aims to completely characterize the underground lives and behaviours of badgers.
Nov 2010: Our presentation on MI tracking of underground animals won the best presentation award at ACM SenSys 2010.
Research
I am currently a James Martin Research Fellow in the Institute for the Future of Computing. I am investigating how to localize people, animals and objects in challenging environments, such as underground or indoors, where technologies like GPS fail. Key to this is the use of magneto-inductive tracking and communication. This has been applied to monitoring animals in their underground habitats, allowing for the first time detailed reconstruction of animal trajectories in their underground burrows. This was presented at the ACM SenSys 2010 conference in November 2010, along with the group paper outlining our deployment experiences.
I also worked on the WildSensing project, which used wireless sensor nodes to monitor badger behaviour. My work is typically cross-disciplinary, and one interesting avenue of research was automatically evolving code for distributed computing. This used a computational analog of a biological process, termed a discrete Gene Regulatory Network (dGRN). This work has been presented at IEEE InfoCom 2010, and an extended version published in the Computer Journal. I obtained my PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2008 researching the design and implementation of a wildlife tracking system, using heterogeneous wireless sensor networks.
Click here for my personal homepage, with lots of detail about MI tracking and other research activity. My Google Scholar Citations can be found here.
Biography
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2008):
"On a wildlife tracking and telemetry system: a wireless network approach"
BSc in Electrical Engineering, First Class Honours, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2004)
Selected Publications
| WILDSENSING:Design and Deployment of a Sustainable Sensor Network for Wildlife Monitoring Ricklef Wohlers Vladimir Dyo Stephen A. Ellwood David W. Macdonald Andrew Markham Cecilia Mascolo Bence Pasztor Salvatore Scellato Niki Trigoni and Kharsim Yousef In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. 2012. |
| Magneto−inductive networked rescue system (MINERS): taking sensor networks underground Andrew Markham and Niki Trigoni In 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). 2012. |
| Characterization of Non−Line−of−Sight (NLOS) Bias via Analysis of Clutter Topology Muzammil Hussain‚ Yusuf Aytar‚ Andrew Markham and Niki Trigoni In IEEE/ION Poisition Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) 2012. 2012. |
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