Professor John Cosmas
Professor
Membership and affiliation
- Member of IET (MIET) and Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE) - elected in 2011
- Senior Member of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (SMIEEE-BTS) - elected in 2011
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 2006 – present
- Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE Broadband Multimedia and Broadcasting Symposia 2006 – present
- Conference Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, Brunel University, 2013
- Organiser of the BTS GOLD Event on Riverboat, an IEEE BTS Young Professionals (YP) program, Brunel university, 2013
- Invited Member of the 5G Technical Group in 5G ICT Programme, EC
- Digital TV group: Invited contributing member of the Mobile Applications Group for DTG
- COST Project: Appointed UK member of COST 2100 project
- Participation in MPEG Standardisation Panels
- DVB Membership: Member of DVB Project (Digital Video Broadcasting – Standards and Specifications) for 2007
- Member of the EPSRC College of reviewers. Reviewer of Research Proposals for GSRT (General Secretariat for Research & Technology) (Greece)
- External Examiner to PhD students at
- University of the Basque Country, Multimedia University of Malaya, Essex University, Bath University, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, Sussex University, Liverpool John Moores, University of Strathclyde, University of Bristol, Kingston University, De Montfort University
- External examiner for postgraduate taught programmes:
- BBC’s MSc Digital Broadcast Technologies, Birmingham City University 2013- now
- MSc Communications Engineering, Middlesex University 2014 – now
- MSc Information Technology for Finance, Sussex University 2007- 2010
- MSc Information Technology, Queen Mary University of London 2004-2007
- Brunel’s advisor for the BBC BEng Broadcast Engineering programme to train the next generation of broadcast engineers for the British Broadcasting industry 2012-2013
- External advisor for BBC’s MSc Broadcast Engineering program at Birmingham City University 2012-2013
- Member of Course Validation Committees at Brunel University
- Reviewer for IEEE Broadcasting Transactions, IEEE Systems, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia
Media interests
- Invited speaker on “5G Internet of Radio Light Services for Musée de la Carte à Jouer” Global LIFI Congress, Paris, France, 8th- 9th February, 2018
- Invited speaker at Musée de la Carte à Jouer on “Internet of Radio Light Technology”, 8th September 2017
- Invited speaker on “5G Internet of Radio Light Services for Supermarkets” 14th China International Forum on Solid State Lighting (SSLCHINA 2017), 1st-3rd November, 2017
- Invited speaker on “Internet of Radio Light System Architecture” at Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1st November 2017.
- Panel Discussion: Introduction to EU Research, Panelists: John Cosmas (Brunel University, London, UK), Luigi Atzori (Unversity of Cagliari, Italy), David Barquero (University Politehnica of Valencia, Spain), Sung-Ik Park (ETRI, Korea) and Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland), BMSB 2017, Sardinia, Italy, June 2017.
- Invited keynote speaker for IEEE Broadcast Technology Societies Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) on “The Internet of Radio-Light ” Dublin, Ireland, Workshop March 2016
- Invited speaker at Cobham Wireless on: "Minimal Mean-Square Error for 3D MIMO Beamforming Weighting" Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, June 2015.
- Invited keynote speaker for IEEE Broadcast Technology Societies Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) on “The Future of Broadcasting” Gentt, Belgium, Workshop March 2013
- Invited speaker at British Telecom on “3D Holoscopic Video Technology”, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, June 2010.
- Invited speaker on “Advanced Multimedia Design and 3D Technology Research and Teaching”, in Tour: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Tsinghua University, 29th-31st March 2010