Dr. Yuriy Zakharov
Reader in Signal Processing for Communications
Department of Electronics
The University of York
Heslington, York – YO10 5DD,
United Kingdom
Dr.
Yuriy Zakharov has an
extensive theoretical and practical background in signal processing,
communications and acoustics. He is author / co-author in excess of 100 journal
and conference papers, 80 technical reports, and 20 patents. He received his
MSc (1977) and PhD (1983) in Radio Engineering from the Moscow Power
Engineering Institute, Russia. After receiving the MSc degree in 1977, he
worked as an Engineer, Senior and Leading Engineer in the Special Design Agency
of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, a large R&D company famous for
its work in telemetry, satellite and space communications. In 1983, he defended
his PhD “Spectrum estimation techniques for telemetry systems”. In 1983, Y. Zakharov joined the N. N. Andreev
Acoustics Institute, one of the leading Russian R&D companies in acoustics,
where he led the Laboratory “Signal processing for underwater acoustic
communications”. In 1989, he received the diploma “Senior Scientist in
Acoustics” from the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1994, Y. Zakharov organised and led a large group of experts in
communications, signal processing and computers from different R&D
companies in Moscow. The group worked on projects for Nortel in the areas of
telephone network tone detection, speech coding, echo cancellation, speaker
verification, multi-media design, etc. The group dealt with development of new
signal processing techniques for telephone network applications and their
real-time design on different DSP platforms; this resulted in a number of
patents. Since 1999, Y. Zakharov has been with Electronics
Department of the University of York (UK), currently
as a Reader. He has been delivering lecture courses in signal processing and
communications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is a member of TPCs of IEEE ICC’2006 to ICC’2011, Globecom’2006 to Globecom’2011,
MIMO-IWCMC-2008, Chinacom-2010, ISWCS-2010. He is also
on editorial boards of the journals IET Signal Processing and IEEE Signal
Processing Letters. His research activity is in signal processing,
communications and acoustics, including adaptive algorithms, underwater
acoustic systems, acoustic echo cancellation, antenna array beamforming,
parameter estimation and nonparametric estimation, multiuser
and MIMO systems, transmission in fading channels, as well as computationally
efficient signal processing, DSP and FPGA design.