Dr Jaswinder Lota

Interim Head of Department of Engineering and Construction

Department of Engineering & Construction , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering

Jaswinder is a Reader in Engineering.

Qualifications

BSc, BEng, MEng, PGCert HE, PhD

Areas Of Interest

Signal processing
Circuits and systems
Wireless Communication

OVERVIEW

Extensive experience in the area of signal processing, circuits and systems in industry and academia for technology development, applied research and standardisation.

Application areas: Radar/Millimetre-wave devices and systems (including weather/military), low-power sustainable communication networks for novel applications beyond 5G/6G (including robotics, automation, transportation and health care) and electronic technologies for H2 propulsion systems. Collaborative partners University College London (UCL) and New York University (NYU).

Research lead for the Smart Cities Research group at the University of East London. Engineering subject lead for REF 2021 submission.

Jaswinder's past experience includes working with the Indian Navy, in various roles in engineering for the design, development and maintenance of radar, electronic warfare, and ship systems. He was a Senior Technologist with Sepura Plc., Cambridge, U.K., for the development of TETRA-2 mobile radios. Since 2013, he has been a Visiting Academic with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, U.K.
Jaswinder is a chartered engineer and from 2018-2022, he was Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (TCAS) I: Regular Papers, and in 2019 was awarded the IEEE CAS Society Certificate of Appreciation: In recognition for work undertaken as Associate Editor for the IEEE TCAS I. In 2015 Dr Lota was the guest editor IEEE TCAS II Express Briefs: Special Issue on Biomedical and Bioelectronic Circuits for Enhanced Diagnosis and Therapy. He was the Guest editor for the following IEEE TCAS I: Special Issues-

Enhanced Systems and Circuits for Network 2030 Beyond 5G, 2021
International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems ISICAS, 2021
CASS Regional Flagship Conferences, 2017

Jaswinder is a member of the IEEE Admission and Advancement Committee member, Region 8 for peer review of member elevation to Senior IEEE Member grade.

External roles

Visiting academic, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London

CURRENT RESEARCH

Improving unambiguous ranges in radar systems for weather forecasting: Current weather radars suffer from range-Doppler ambiguity that translates into a trade-off between maximal unambiguous range and velocity. Several techniques have been proposed to mitigate this problem but have the drawback of reduced signal-to-noise ratio. The research aims to offer novel alternatives.
Low-power joint sensing and communication technologies including index modulation: Most joint radar and communication strategies require channel state information (CSI) that leads to considerable overheads in power. The research aims to develop a technique without any CSI for joint sensing and data transfer which will have a considerable impact on applications such as weather forecasting, transportation and telecommunications.
Real-time weather impact on the performance of microwave and millimetre-wave mobile backhaul networks in the United Kingdom. The research is to develop novel accurate channel models with artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the performance of microwave networks under the impact of real-time weather conditions.

Suggested PhD Areas: Novel signal processing, circuits and systems for:

Radar systems (including weather and military)
Joint localisation, sensing and data transfer for beyond 5G networks
Electronic technologies for H2 propulsion systems

PUBLICATIONS

Journals:

Lota, J., Ju, Shihao., Kanhere, O., Rappaport, T., and Demosthenous, A., ' MmWave V2V Localization in MU-MIMO Hybrid Beamforming', IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology Apr 2022, doi: 10.1109/OJVT.2022.3170522. Funded in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/R511638/1.
Hossain, Md A., Ray, S. K. and Lota, J, 'SmartDR: A Device-to-Device Communication for Post-Disaster Recovery', Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 171, Art. 102813, Dec 2020. [Submitted for REF2021].
Dey, M., Shiraz, A., Sharif, S., Lota, J. and Demosthenous, A. 'Dictionary selection for Compressed Sensing of EEG signals using sparse binary matrix and spatiotemporal sparse Bayesian learning', Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express, 6, 065024, Oct 2020. [Submitted for REF2021].
Lota, J., and Demosthenous A., 'Low Computational Sensing with Goertzel Filtering for Mobile Industrial IoT Devices.,' Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems -ISCAS 2020, Seville Spain Oct 2020.
Zito, D and Lota, J., 'Guest Editorial 2017 Special Issue on CASS Regional Flagship Conferences', IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers Dec 2017, vol. 64, issue 12, pp. 3001-3002.
Lota,J., Sun, Shu., Rappaport, Ted., and Demosthenous, A., '5G Uniform linear arrays with beamforming and spatial multiplexing at 28 GHz, 37 GHz, 64 GHz and 71 GHz for outdoor urban communication: A two-level approach', IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology Nov 2017, vol. 66, issue 11, pp 9972 – 9985. [Submitted for REF2021]. Funded in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/K031953/1.

Conferences:

Low Computational Sensing with Goertzel Filtering for Mobile Industrial IoT Devices, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180896 May 2020.
Power control in cognitive radios, Internet-of Things (IoT) for factories and industrial automation, IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Oct 2016. DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793782
Q-enhancement with on-chip inductor optimization for reconfigurable Δ-Σ radio-frequency ADC, 2015 IEEE 13th International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2015.7182018

FUNDING

Funding and as PI on funded projects

International Research Collaboration Award for development of large-scale international projects, University of East London £ 2.5K 2016.
'Big Data in Smart Cities and Human Dynamics'. Research Internship Award, University of East London £ 2.5K 2015.
'Ultra-low power sensor network with LTE integration for an early-warning mobile diagnostic system'. Impact Grant awarded by University College London and Cambridge Silicon Radio plc Cambridge. £ 76K 2014.
Technical Lead Project SANGRAHA at Naval Headquarters New Delhi, research and development of Electronic Warfare systems developed by Defence Electronics Research Lab (DLRL) Hyderabad, funded by Ministry of Defence, Government of India with funding in excess of £ 7M (1999-2004).

TEACHING

MODULES

EG3015 (Physics)
EG4016 (Engineering Principles)
EG5027 (Dynamics and Control)
EG5033 (Applied Electronics)
EG7039 (Smart Industry and Digital Manufacturing)
EG4096 (AC Circuits and Electronic Principles)

Publications

The last four years of publications can be viewed below.

Full publications list

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Research repository

Lota, J. and Demosthenous, A. (2023)
Low Power Analog Processing for Ultra-High-Speed Receivers with RF Correlation IEEE Access. 11, pp. 37944-37957. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3253042
Article

Lota, J., Ju, S., Kanhere, O., Rappaport, T. S. and Demosthenous, A. (2022)
mmWave V2V Localization in MU-MIMO Hybrid Beamforming IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology. 3, pp. 210-220. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2022.3170522
Article

Dey, M., Shiraz, A., Sharif, S., Lota, J. and Demosthenous, A. (2020)
Dictionary selection for Compressed Sensing of EEG signals using sparse binary matrix and spatiotemporal sparse Bayesian learning Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express. 6 (Art. 065024). https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/abc133
Article
Hossain, Md A., Ray, S. K. and Lota, J. (2020)
SmartDR: A Device-to-Device Communication for Post-Disaster Recovery Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 171 (Art. 102813). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2020.102813
Article

Lota, J., Sun, Shu, Rappaport, Theodore S. and Demosthenous, Andreas (2017)
5G Uniform linear arrays with beamforming and spatial multiplexing at 28 GHz, 37 GHz, 64 GHz and 71 GHz for outdoor urban communication: A two-level approach IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 66 (11), pp. 9972-9985. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2017.2741260
Article

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