Sithamparanathan Sabesan
Tucker-Price Junior Research Fellow in Science
Dr. Sithamparanathan Sabesan is currently the Tucker-Price Junior Research Fellow in Science at Girton College.
Research Interests
Dr. Sabesan is currently carrying out research on ‘Low-Cost Ubiquitous Passive RFID Real Time Location Sensing System’. The system will enable retailers, airlines and other businesses to inexpensively and effectively monitor items' locations in real time. A major objective of the approach is not only to overcome the limited range for reliable detection passive tags so that antennas could be placed with spacings of 20 m (comparable with conventional wifi spacings), but also to provide accurate real-time location. The system could save airlines millions of pounds. Retail groups have also been engaged in the project - not just for tagging items, but also for the advancement of self-service checkouts. This work is supported by the Girton College Tucker-Price Junior Research Fellowship, the Boeing Company and the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) funded PULSE project.
Biography
Dr. Sabesan moved to the UK in 2004 to study BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering at Sheffield University, where he scored highest marks in his year and awarded the Sir William Siemens Medal for being the country's top 18 science and technology students. He was previously with the Cambridge University spin off company ARM, as a student IP Electronic Engineer. He moved to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University in 2007 to study for his Masters degree (MPhil) in Electronic Engineering before beginning his PhD in 2008 on the subject of 'Passive RFID real time sensing system for intelligent infrastructure'. He received funding from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Corpus Christi College Scholarship and EPSRC (TINA and Boeing) Studentship to pursue MPhil and PhD at Cambridge University.
He has received a number of awards, has had his work published in various journals and currently has two patents pending for his work into RFID. A keen cricketer, Dr. Sabesan has captained the Corpus Christi College MCR team and is also an elected president of University of Cambridge Graduate Cricket League and chairman of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Cambridge Younger Professionals Committee.
He has just been appointed to a Fellowship of the ERA Foundation. Dr. Sabesan has recently been selected as the winner of The UK EPSRC ICT Pioneers Connected World Award, as well as the The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award 2011.
Contacting Dr Sabesan
Dr Sabesan can be contacted via his Cambridge email address or department address.
| Email address: | ss740@cam.ac.uk |
| Dept. Address: | Electrical Engineering Division, CAPE Building, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA |
| Telephone: | 01223 748480 |
| Fax number: |
01223 748342 |