Professor Mike Davies

Mike Davies holds the Jeffrey Collins Chair in Signal and Image Processing at the University of Edinburgh where he is also Director of Research for the School of Engineering. He is a leading expert in the mathematical theory and algorithm design for computational imaging, compressed sensing, and machine learning systems. From 2013-24 he led the University Defence Research Collaboration (UDRC) a major UK research programme for signal processing in defence in collaboration with Dstl. With over 300 publications and over 19,000 citations, his research has been recognised through numerous keynote and invited talks, 5 ESI highly cited papers, 4 paper awards, and underpins leading commercial imaging and sensing systems. He has served on various professional committees and consulted for both UK government and industry on signal processing and AI. He has been the recipient of various awards and prizes including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, a prestigious ERC advanced grant, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the European Society for Signal Processing (EURASIP), the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

His research lies at the intersection between signal processing and machine learning. He has made key contributions to the development of signal embedding theorems for nonlinear dynamical time series, theoretical and algorithmic results in independent component analysis, compressed sensing and computational imaging. He has also explored the application of these ideas to various advanced medical imaging, electro-optical and RF based sensing applications.