Andrew Nix

Professor Andrew Nix BEng, PhD, MIEEE is a co-founder and director of ProVision. He is the Professor in Wireless Communication Systems at the University of Bristol.

Andrew obtained his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1992. He joined the teaching staff at the University of Bristol in 1993, and was promoted to Reader in 1998 and to Professor of Wireless Communication Systems in 2002. Andrew is also a founder director of Wireless Systems International (1995) and ProVision Communication Technologies Ltd (2001).

Andrew’s research interests are focused around the technical challenges of providing ubiquitous, mass market, low cost wireless solutions using innovative spectrum and power efficient digital wireless technologies. He has managed numerous EU, EPSRC and DTI funded projects and has published in excess of 340 Journal and Conference papers. He was awarded the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society 2001 Chester Hall award for one of the best three papers published in the IEEE CES Transactions.

Andrew was an active member of the ETSI RES10 committee (1992-1994) that defined Europe’s first wireless LAN standard (Hiperlan). He published the first papers back in 1993 describing the use of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for use in high data rate WLANs. He has published extensively on the performance of IEEE 802.11a/g. Recently he has developed and patented novel packetisation and link-adaptation algorithms to jointly encode and transmit video over MIMO channels.

Andrew has established internationally recognized research groups in wireless digital communications and radiowave propagation modelling. Key research achievements include innovative modulation techniques, low complexity equalisation algorithms, patented high-performance MIMO reception techniques, and radar-cross section inspired site specific propagation models.

To date his work has resulted in 11 patents.