Chris Bridges Email & Phone Number

Guildford, England, Gb

Further management duties:- UG/PG Space Programmes Director: BEng / MEng / MSc in Space Engineering.- CSEE Dept. Board of Studies Chair.- U.K. Activities: Space Academics Network Member, Space Universities NetworkProjects:- UKSA LEOPARD - Active Debris Removal Project supporting with Onboard Processing needs for close proximity operations, and rendezvous and docking.- ESA FIPC - Development of intelligence payload chains and machine learning applications.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Promotion to OBDH Senior Lecturer:- Teaching: Computer Architecture Design UG Module, Digital Design with VHDL UG/PG Module & Spacecraft Avionics PG Module.- Duties: Industrial Advisory Board Member, Faculty International Relations Committee Member, Staff/Student Liaison Committe ChairKey Projects:- ESEO Software Defined Radio Payload with AMSAT-UK, Computer & Power Board Design. Launched via SpaceX Launch in Dec' 2018.- "ESA Academy - Fly Your Satellite Programme": Groundstation, SDR & Operations Teaching- 5G Above the Cloud, Software Defined Radios for Automated Vehicle Communications.- Raspberry Pi Imaging Payload Hardware & Software with SSTL.- 2019 NASA/ESA Frontier Development Lab Mentor in AI/ML for Satellite Groundstation Optimisations.- ARISS & AMSAT Support in the Lunar Gateway AREx Payload.

Guildford, Surrey

Promotion to OBDH Lecturer and have been involved in teaching:- Astrodynamics: Orbit and attitude propagation, visualisation and analysis (labs)- Spacecraft Bus Subsystems: Power, OBDH, TTNC Communications and Groundstations- Spacecraft Avionics MSc, as above with software defined radio, gnuradio, flight software design- Microprocessors: MIPS > ARM Designs, ALU, pipelines, caching- Digital Design with VHDL: 74x series, UARTs, baud rate and PWM exercises, DFT and Intel 4Current research in low-power embedded computing solutions, adaptive hardware/software radio systems, and cross-layer optimisations. Designed, built, programmed, operated and manages the STRaND-1 mission together with SSTL. More recently managed the FP7 SME-SAT Consortium, and on AlSat-1N (design, software, groundseg), RemoveDebris (inter satellite link and antenna), and the ESA ESEO Mission.

Worked in both the VLSI Design and Embedded Systems (VDES) and Astrodynamics (Astro) Group at Surrey Space Centre (SSC), funded by EADS Astrium. For the VDES Group, tasks include being a lead systems engineer for a 3 kg nanosatellite, the design of a new on-board computer for distributed missions, Java-based software/hardware experiments for an embedded agent middleware for distributed applications, and the upgrading of the SSC groundstation. For the Astro Group, recent tasks include the feasibility of performing a visual inspection mission between two satellites is being investigated utilising a microelectromechanical (MEMS) thruster built by EADS Astrium. The combined thrusting, imaging, and processing requirements will go towards a new integrated hardware and software payload design.

I worked in the VLSI Design and Embedded Systems Group at Surrey Space Centre (SSC), awarded under EPSRC's PhD+ program. Usual tasks include writing journal and conference publications in the field of fault-tolerant agent middleware and real-time Java processing, supporting proposal activities, and research-based software and hardware development for distributed satellite systems. Recent tasks have included PCB design for a high-performance computing board with IEEE 802.11 (WiFi).

Rochester, United Kingdom

Worked in the Production Engineering Department (PED) towards the production of electronic circuit boards. This included checking schematics, bills of materials and board production flow.

Doctor, Philosophy

Department: Surrey Space Centre (SSC) Thesis: Agent Computing Platform for Distributed Satellite Systems Development.

Beng Hons, Electronic Engineering

Chosen Units: Advanced Digital & Hardware Systems, Advanced Analogue Electronics, Lower Power Systems, Digital Signal Processing Final.

Higher National Diploma, Electrical/Electronic Engineering

B.Eng. Electronic Engineering

National Diploma, Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Electronics, Control & Instrumentation, Software Design Methods, Microelectronic Systems, Mathematics for Engineering

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