Dr Eliane Bodanese, MSc PhD SMIEEE

Profile

Dr Eliane L. Bodanese MSc, PhD, MIEEE. Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in QMUL.  Electrical Engineering degree from the Federal University of Parana (Brazil). M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London (UK). Published more than 80 refereed journal/conference papers and research interests include sensor networks and the Internet of Things, human activity detection and recognition through minimal non-intrusive sensing, indoor and outdoor localization, communication support for emergencies, heterogeneous wireless environments, cooperative communications, ad hoc and delay tolerant networks.

Eliane joined Queen Mary University of London in 2003. She is a member of the Centre of Networks, Communications and Systems of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. Her research projects have been sponsored by EPSRC in alternative and resilient communication for emergencies, sensor networks, and wireless networks to support first responders and resilience in upland areas. The real demonstrators developed on those grants in sensors networks, delay tolerant networks and in messaging middleware have been showcased. She has also been sponsored by BT in the work in internet centric services. Eliane’s current research is on sensor data integration and analysis for medical applications, and activity recognition through minimal non-intrusive sensing.

Eliane has a vast experience in academic teaching encompassing several areas of communications and networks, software programming, and distributed systems.
Eliane is a member of the EPSRC Associate Peer Review College, and she is a reviewer of numerous journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and the IET Communications Journal.

Teaching

Communications and Networks (Undergraduate)

This compulsory module covers the basic concepts in communications and networks. It introduces the concept of a communications system and then focusses on specific elements. It covers circuit and switched versus packet switched networks, and the ISO/OSI 7 layer model. Also covered are certain critical network protocols, e.g. TCP/IP and CSMA/CD, key Internet concepts, converged networks, and mobile networks.

C Programming (Undergraduate)

This module introduces the principles of C Programming to students who already know how to program at a basic level in Java. It provides a knowledge of the theory of C Programming and also its practical use in real engineering systems. The focus is on microprocessor based systems.

Enabling Communication Technologies for IoT (Postgraduate/Undergraduate)

This module provides a comprehensive study of the major communication technologies that enable applications on Internet of Things. This module comes as a response to the increasing commercial and research interest in smart everywhere applications, like smart grid, smart city, smart home, industrial automation, telemetry, etc. This module covers the technologies that allow the formation of a network for autonomous communication and processing between devices that supply the vital information, such as sensing and identification for the smart applications . Topics include: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); Near Field Communication (NFC); Wireless Sensor Networks: covering its major concepts in node sensing, wireless transmission characteristics, medium access protocols, and routing protocols; Wireless Personal Area Networks such as the ones using IEEE802.15.4 standard, Zigbee, Zwave; Low Power Wide Area Networks such as LoRa and Sigfox systems; and Power line communications.

Research

Research Interests:

See Eliane Bodanese’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Scholarly Contributions

EPSRC Peer Review Associate College Member

Advisory member: QMUL Research Ethics Committee

IET Representative: for EECS-UK of IET Enhanced Academic Partnership

PhD Examinations: Internal examiner, QMUL - London, 18.05.2011, 08.06.2018, 20.07.2018, 11.01.2019, 26.02.2021; Internal examiner, King’s College - London, 08.12.2009; External examiner, Kings College, 12.04.2013; External Examiner, University of Surrey, 02.05.2013; University of Essex, 13.02.2017. MPhil Examinations: External examiner, Bedfordshire University, Luton Campus, 18.11.2010; External examiner, City University, London, 01.03.2018.

Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; IEEE Transactions on Wireless Networks; IET Wireless Sensor Systems (WSS); IET Communications; Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (Wiley); IEEE Communication Letters.

Conference organisation (recent years only): Member of the Technical Program Committee for: Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2012); International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems 2010 (ISWCS 2010); IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2009;  Reviewer for: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2012; IEEE VTC Spring 2008 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf.