Professor David Grace

University of York

David Grace received his PhD from University of York in 1999, with the subject of his thesis being ‘Distributed Dynamic Channel Assignment for the Wireless Environment’. He has been a member of staff at the University since 1994 and he is now Professor (Research). He leads the Communication Technologies Discovery Theme and Challenging Environments Translational Theme within School of Physics, Engineering and Technology. He is also Director of the Centre for High Altitude Platform Applications and pillar lead for Advanced Communications within Institute for Safe Autonomy.  Current research interests include non-terrestrial networks, aerial platform-based communications, application of artificial intelligence to wireless communications; 6G system architectures; dynamic spectrum access and interference management. He is currently leads the EPSRC HiQ project, developing quantum key distribution via high altitude platforms. He is a recent lead investigator on H2020 MCSA SPOTLIGHT, UK Government funded MANY, dealing with 5G trials in rural areas. He was technical lead on the 14-partner FP6 CAPANINA project that dealt with broadband communications from high altitude platforms. He is an author of over 280 papers, and author/editor of 2 books. He is the former chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks for the period 2013/4. He is a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing. From 2014-8 he was a non-executive director of Stratospheric Platforms Ltd. In 2000, he jointly founded SkyLARC Technologies Ltd, and was one of its directors.