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Dr John McAllister

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Dr John McAllister

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

John’s research addresses the design of custom hardware for embedded/edge signal processing and machine learning applications – particularly Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It sits at the intersection of advanced algorithm, compiler/synthesis technology and custom hardware architectures. He is particularly interested in novel computational paradigms, including dataflow, neuromorphic and quantum computing. 

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  • jp.mcallister@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 4783

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

  • Custom hardware and high-level synthesis for FPGA
  • Edge computing and cyber-physical systems
  • Signal processing systems
  • Dataflow computing
  • Neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks

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