School of Engineering (ENG)

Profile

PhD, MSc, Ingénieur d'État, FHEA, MIET

Djamel is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Engineering. He joined the University in 1996 as a Research Fellow working on modelling of temperature and humidity dynamic behaviour in office buildings for predictive control applications.

Teaching

Djamel is associated with the Electronics Teaching Group and teach at 2nd, 3rd and MSc levels in Analogue Circuit Analysis, Instrumentation, and Programmable Analogue Electronic Devices. His other duties include supervising students undertaking undergraduate projects both from the School and from external institutions.

Research

Djamel is currently a member of the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group. Over the years he has been involved in a number of research projects and topics. His research interests cover:

• modelling for building management systems
• control of naturally ventilated buildings
• comfort in buildings
• comfort driven building management
• wireless sensor for built environment
• robot navigation and localisation
• intelligent virtual teaching environments
• wireless sensor networks

Djamel is also engaged in a number of PhD supervision:

• Matt Coles, "Bayesian Network Based Intelligent Mobility Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks" (completed successfully – March 2009)
• Ifeyinwa E Chika, "Intelligent Performance Assessment in A Virtual Electronic Laboratory" (completed successfully – July 2011)
• James Stocker (on loan to Industry)
• Sebastian Bersch, "Cognitive Computing for Assisted Living Applications"
• Richie Sethi, "Seamless Data Fusion for Assisted Living Applications"

Income Generation

Djamel is continuously seeking new opportunities to generate income through the setting up of knowledge transfer programmes and consultancy. This usually involves teaming up with industrial partners for collaborative funded collaborative work. Over the years he has lead and/or taken part in a number of projects:

• Dr D Azzi and Dr R Khusainov, "Monitoring system for the elderly living in residential dwellings", Knowledge Transfer Programme in partnership with KG&S Ltd. Value £217K, 2.5 year project (2 associates), March 2010.
• Dr R Khusainov and Dr D Azzi, "Efficient streaming over IP of digital high definition audio/video content", Short Knowledge Transfer Programme in partnership with Smart-e Ltd. Value £38K, 40 week project (1 associate), March 2010.
• Dr D Azzi , Dr R Khusainov, Dr M Filip, Dr J Briggs and Dr M Hamdi, "Digital Wellbeing", University of Portsmouth funded project (under HEIF). Value £125K, 18 month project (1 research fellow and 1 research assistant), March 2010.
• Dr D Azzi and Dr R Khusainov, "Intelligent Embedded Web Server for Audio-Visual Distribution System", Knowledge Transfer Programme in partnership with Smart-e Ltd. Value £39,870, 12 month project (1 associate), December 2007.
• Dr D Azzi Dr D Azzi and Dr Barry Haynes, "Manufacture of Vehicle Wheel Geometry Measuring Equipment", Knowledge Transfer Programme in partnership with Supertracker Ltd. Value £105,000, 2 year project, 2006.
• Mr TG Morgan and Dr D Azzi: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Assessment Network (e3an), Project aimed at developing a question bank for use by academics in the area of electrical and electronic engineering. Value £15,000, 2000.
• Professor GS Virk, Dr D Azzi: Teaching Company Scheme with PACS/Sontay Limited to investigate the potential for remote sensors in building services systems. Value £82,010, 1998-2000.
• Professor GS Virk, Dr D Azzi, Dr KI Alkadhimi, Dr BP Haynes: EPSRC grant for project entitled "Software computing models for building applications: a feasibility study". Value £81,637, 1997.

Consultancy

Over the year Djamel has lent his services to the industry. A flavour of what was done is listed below.

• April 2010 to October 2010 - "Large-scale Disk Storage Systems/Building management Systems Interoperability". (Xyratex Ltd. funded investigative project) £14.7k.
• Other work has involved a number of external bodies - the BRE (Building Research Establishment), Endoenergy Systems Ltd and A T Engine Controls Ltd.

Publications

For a list of Djamel's recent publications, please visit
http://eprints.port.ac.uk/view/creators/Azzi=3ADjamel=3A=3A.html