Background

Paul received his BEng and PhD degrees from Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. During his PhD, he pioneered the topic of organic visible light communications Between 2011 and 2012, he joined CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) with a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship working on optical fibre links for high energy physics experiments. Between 2014-2016 he was a Senior Research Associate within the High Performance Networks Group at the University of Bristol, working on reconfigurable agile network interfaces. Then from 2016-2019 he was a Senior Research Associate at University College London working on high speed polymer visible light communications systems, with particular focus on modulation, digital signal processing and healthcare applications.

From 2019 he was appointed as a lecturer in communications and signal processing at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University. To date, Paul has published over 70 scholarly articles in the area of digital communications and received >1000 citations and a h-index of 19. He has contributed to £3M in successful research funding proposals.

For self funded PhD opportunities, please contact me at paul.haigh@newcastle.ac.uk

Research

Paul's research focuses in two key areas; digital communications system and digital healthcare.

The first area focuses mainly on the application of digital signal processing to both optical and radio communications systems including the design, implementation and analysis of new modulation formats, filter designs, equalisation methods and artificial intelligence techniques. He is also interested in real time signal processing and deployment of FPGAs in real world scenarios. To date, his major research contribution has been in the field of visible light communications using devices consisting of new materials known as organic semiconductors. He has demonstrated, with his collaborators, improvements in achievable transmission rates and in point-to-point mobile access networks using organic devices in free space.

The second area looks at the translative approaches that can be taken from digital communications and applied to healthcare scenarios. Paul, in collaboration with Profs. Ioannis Papakonstantinou and Manish Tiwari (both at UCL), is interested in monitoring and analysis of oxygen diffusion inside tissue using optical signals, using techniques borrowed from optical communications systems.

Publications

• Pesek P, Zvanovec S, Chvojka P, Ghassemlooy Z, Haigh PA. Demonstration of a hybrid FSO/VLC link for the last mile and last meter networks. IEEE Photonics Journal 2019, 11(1), 7900307.
• Chaleshtori ZN, Chvojka P, Zvanovec S, Ghassemlooy Z, Haigh PA. A Survey on Recent Advances in Organic Visible Light Communications. In: 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP). 2018, Budapest, Hungary: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Chvojka P, Zvanovec S, Ghassemlooy Z, Darwazeh I. Analysis of Nyquist Pulse Shapes for Carrierless Amplitude and Phase Modulation in Visible Light Communications. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2018, 36(20), 5023-5029.
• Haigh PA, Darwazeh I. Demonstration of reduced complexity multi-band CAP modulation using xia-pulses in visible light communications. In: 2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC). 2018, San Diego, CA, USA: IEEE.
• Wei J, Zhou J, Giacoumidis E, Haigh PA, Tang J. DSP-based 40 GB/s lane rate next-generation access networks. Future Internet 2018, 10(12), 118.
• Werfli K, Chvojka P, Ghassemlooy Z, Bani Hassan N, Zvanovec S, Burton A, Haigh PA, Bhatnagar M. Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed 4 x 4 Imaging Multi-CAP MIMO Visible Light Communications. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2018, 36(10), 1944-1951.
• Ozan W, Ghannam H, Xu T, Haigh PA, Darwazeh I. Experimental Evaluation of Channel Estimation and Equalisation in Non-Orthogonal FDM Systems. In: 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP). 2018, Budapest, Hungary: IEEE.
• Ozan W, Ghannam H, Haigh PA, Darwazeh I. Experimental implementation of real-time non-orthogonal multi-carrier systems in a realistic fading channel. In: IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS). 2018, Anaheim, CA, USA: IEEE.
• Ozan W, Haigh PA, Tan B, Darwazeh I. Experimental SEFDM Pipelined Iterative Detection Architecture with Improved Throughput. In: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. 2018, Porto, Portugal: IEEE.
• Burton A, Zvanovec S, Ghassemlooy Z, Haigh PA, Darwazeh I, Minh HL. Investigation of WDM VLC Using Standard 5 mm RGB LEDs. In: 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP). 2018, Budapest, Hungary: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Chvojka P, Ghassemlooy Z, Zvanovec S, Darwazeh I. Non-Orthogonal Multi-band CAP for Highly Spectrally Efficient VLC Systems. In: 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP). 2018, Budapest, Hungary: IEEE.
• Akande KO, Haigh PA, Popoola WO. On the Implementation of Carrierless Amplitude and Phase Modulation in Visible Light Communication. IEEE Access 2018, 6, 60532-60546.
• Odedeyi T, Haigh PA, Darwazeh I. Transmission Line Synthesis Approach to Extending the Bandwidth of LEDs for Visible Light Communication. In: 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2018. 2018, Budapest, Hungary: IEEE.
• Luo P, Jiang T, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Zvanovec S. Undersampled pulse width modulation for optical camera communications. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops 2018). 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA: IEEE.
• Luo P, Jiang T, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Zvanovec S. UPWM-based Pulse Position Modulation for Optical Camera Communications. In: 2018 11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2018. 2018, Budapest, Hungary: IEEE.
• Wei J, Sanchez C, Haigh PA, Giacoumidis E. Complexity comparison of multi-band CAP and DMT for practical high speed data center interconnects. In: Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACPC 2017). 2017, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China: The Optical Society.
• Akande KO, Haigh PA, Popoola WO. Joint equalization and synchronization for carrierless amplitude and phase modulation in visible light communication. In: 2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC). 2017, Valencia, Spain: IEEE.
• Chvojka P, Werfli K, Haigh PA, Zvanovec S, Ghassemlooy Z, Bhatnagar MR. Multi-band carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation for VLC: An overview. In: 2017 First South American Colloquium on Visible Light Communications (SACVLC). 2017, Santiago, Chile: IEEE.
• Chvojka P, Werfli K, Zvanovec S, Haigh PA, Vacek VH, Dvorak P, Pesek P, Ghassemlooy Z. On the m-CAP Performance with Different Pulse Shaping Filters Parameters for Visible Light Communications. IEEE Photonics Journal 2017, 9(5), 7906712.
• Haigh PA, Hugues-Salas E, Wei J. On the performance of increasing subcarrier order in multi-band carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation for Short Haul optical links. In: Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACPC 2017). 2017, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China: The Optical Society.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Le ST, Bausi F, Minh HL, Cacialli F, Darwazeh I. Organic visible light communications: Methods to achieve 10 Mb/s. In: 30th Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics Society, IPC 2017. 2017, Orlando, FL, USA: IEEE.
• Aguado A, Hugues-Salas E, Haigh PA, Marhuenda J, Price AB, Sibson P, Kennard JE, Erven C, Rarity JG, Thompson MG, Lord A, Nejabati R, Simeonidou D. Secure NFV Orchestration over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network with Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution Resources. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2017, 35(8), 1357-1362.
• Chvojka P, Zvanovec S, Werfli K, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z. Variable m-CAP for bandlimited Visible Light Communications. In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). 2017, Paris, France: IEEE.
• Zvanovec S, Zak P, Chvojka P, Kudlacek I, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z. Visible light communications based on street lighting. In: Visible Light Communications: Theory and Applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017, pp.283-308.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Zvanovec S, Komanec M. VLC with organic photonic components. In: Visible Light Communications: Theory and Applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017, pp.521-548.
• Werfli K, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Hassan NB, Zvanovec S. A new concept of multi-band carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation for bandlimited visible light communications. In: 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2016). 2016, Prague, Czech Republic: IEEE.
• Le ST, Haigh PA, Ellis AD, Turitsyn SK. Blind Phase Noise Estimation for CO-OFDM Transmissions. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2016, 34(2), 745-753.
• Chvojka P, Dvorak P, Pesek P, Zvanovec S, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z. Characterization of the organic LED based visible light communications. In: 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2016). 2016, Prague, Czech Republic: IEEE.
• Kanesan T, Maskuriy F, Hafiz M, Mohamad R, Mitani SM, Hizan HM, Rahim AIA, Haigh PA, Rajbhandari S, Chang G-K. Dual pump brillouin laser for RoF millimeterwave carrier generation with tunable resolution. In: IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference (TENCON 2015). 2016, Macao, China: IEEE.
• Chvojka P, Haigh PA, Zvanovec S, Pesek P, Ghassemlooy Z. Evaluation of multi-band carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation performance for VLC under various pulse shaping filter parameters. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2016). 2016, Lisbon, Portugal: SciTePress.
• Aguado A, Hugues-Salas E, Haigh PA, Marhuenda J, Price AB, Sibson P, Kennard JE, Erven C, Rarity JG, Thompson MG, Lord A, Nejabati R, Simeonidou D. First experimental demonstration of secure NFV orchestration over an SDN-controlled optical network with time-shared quantum key distribution resources. In: 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2016). 2016, Dusseldorf, Germany: IEEE.
• Kanesan T, Mohamad R, Mitani SM, Hizan HM, Ng WP, Ghassemlooy Z, Haigh PA, Rajbhandari S, Le ST, Chang G-K. Solution to reduce nonlinearity in LTE RoF system for an efficient das topology: A brief review (Invited). In: 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2016). 2016, Prague, Czech Republic: IEEE.
• Aguado A, Haigh PA, Hugues-Salas E, Nejabati R, Simeonidou D. Towards a control plane management architecture enabling proactive network predictability. In: Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2016). 2016, Anaheim, CA, USA: IEEE.
• Jungnickel V, Uysal M, Serafimovski N, Baykas T, O'Brien D, Ciaramella E, Ghassemlooy Z, Green R, Haas H, Haigh PA, Jimenez VPG, Miramirkhani F, Wolf M, Zvanovec S. A European view on the next generation optical wireless communication standard. In: IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN 2015). 2015, Tokyo, Japan: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Burton A, Werfli K, Minh HL, Bentley E, Chvojka P, Popoola WO, Papakonstantinou I, Zvanovec S. A Multi-CAP Visible-Light Communications System with 4.85-b/s/Hz Spectral Efficiency. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2015, 33(9), 1771-1779.
• Chvojka P, Zvanovec S, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z. Channel Characteristics of Visible Light Communications Within Dynamic Indoor Environment. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2015, 33(9), 1719-1725.
• Le ST, McCarthy ME, Suibhne NM, Haigh PA, Giacoumidis E, Doran NJ, Ellis AD, Turitsyn SK. Decision-directed-free blind phase noise estimation for CO-OFDM. In: 2015 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC). 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA: IEEE.
• Rajbhandari S, Ghassemlooy Z, Haigh PA, Kanesan T, Tang X. Experimental error performance of modulation schemes under a controlled laboratory turbulence FSO channel. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2015, 33(1), 244-250.
• Haigh PA, Chvojka P, Zvanovec S, Ghassemlooy Z, Le ST, Kanesan T, Giacoumidis E, Doran NJ, Papakonstantinou I, Darwazeh I. Experimental verification of visible light communications based on multi-band CAP modulation. In: Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2015). 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA: IEEE.
• Giacoumidis E, Le ST, Ghanbarisabagh M, McCarthy M, Aldaya I, Mhatli S, Jarajreh MA, Haigh PA, Doran NJ, Ellis AD, Eggleton BJ. Fiber nonlinearity-induced penalty reduction in CO-OFDM by ANN-based nonlinear equalization. Optics Letters 2015, 40(21), 5113-5116.
• Haigh PA, Le ST, Zvanovec S, Ghassemlooy Z, Luo P, Xu T, Chvojka P, Kanesan T, Giacoumidis E, Canyelles-Pericas P, Minh HL, Popoola W, Rajbhandari S, Papakonstantinou I, Darwazeh I. Multi-band carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation for bandlimited visible light communications systems. IEEE Wireless Communications 2015, 22(2), 46-53.
• Haigh PA, Aguado A, Ghassemlooy Z, Chvojka P, Werfli K, Zvanovec S, Ertunc E, Kanesan T. Multi-band carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation for highly bandlimited visible light communications - Invited paper. In: International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2015). 2015, Nanjing, China: IEEE.
• Werfli K, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Chvojka P, Zvanovec S, Rajbhandari S, Shihe L. Multi-band carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation with decision feedback equalization for bandlimited VLC systems. In: 4th International Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (IWOW 2015). 2015, Istanbul, Turkey: IEEE.
• Giacoumidis E, Wei J, Jarajreh MA, Le ST, Haigh PA, Bohata J, Perentos A, Mhatli S, Ghanbarisabagh M, Aldaya I, Doran NJ. Numerical analysis of artificial neural network and volterra-based nonlinear equalizers for coherent optical OFDM. In: Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium. 2015, Electromagnetics Academy.
• Kanesan T, Mitani SM, Mohamad R, Hizan HM, Ng WP, Ghassemlooy Z, Rajbhandari S, Haigh PA, Chang G-K. Spectral Shape Impact of Nonlinear Compensator Signal in LTE RoF System. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2015, 27(23), 2481-2484.
• Zvanovec S, Chvojka P, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z. Visible light communications towards 5G. Radioengineering 2015, 24(1), 1-9.
• Haigh PA, Bausi F, Le Minh H, Papakonstantinou I, Popoola WO, Burton A, Cacialli F. Wavelength-Multiplexed Polymer LEDs: Towards 55 Mb/s Organic Visible Light Communications. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2015, 33(9), 1819-1828.
• Le ST, Kanesan T, Bausi F, Haigh PA, Rajbhandari S, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Popoola WO, Burton A, Le Minh H, Cacialli F, Ellis AD. 10 Mb/s visible light transmission system using a polymer light-emitting diode with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. Optics Letters 2014, 39(13), 3876-3879.
• Haigh PA, Bausi F, Kanesan T, Le ST, Rajbhandari S, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Popoola WO, Burton A, Le Minh H, Ellis AD, Cacialli F. A 10 Mb/s visible light communication system using a low bandwidth polymer light-emitting diode. In: 9th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2014). 2014, Manchester, UK: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Rajbhandari S, Leitgeb E. A 100 Mb/s visible light communications system using a linear adaptive equalizer. In: 19th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC 2014). 2014, Milano, Italy: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Arca F, Tedde SF, Hayden O, Leitgeb E. A 1-Mb/s visible light communications link with low bandwidth organic components. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2014, 26(13), 1295-1298.
• Haigh PA, Bausi F, Kanesan T, Le ST, Rajbhandari S, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Popoola W, Burton A, Minh HL, Ellis AD, Cacialli F. A 20-Mb/s VLC link with a polymer LED and a multilayer perceptron equalizer. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2014, 26(19), 1975-1978.
• Haigh PA, Bausi F, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Minh HL, Flechon C, Cacialli F. Next generation visible light communications: 10 Mb/s with polymer light-emitting diodes. In: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2014). 2014, San Francisco, California: Optical Society of America.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Bausi F, Papakonstantinou I, Le Minh H, Tedde SF, Hayden O, Cacialli F. Organic visible light communications: Recent progress. In: 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2014). 2014, Graz, Austria: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Rajbhandari S, Papakonstantinou I, Popoola W. Visible light communications: 170 Mb/s using an artificial neural network equalizer in a low bandwidth white light configuration. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2014, 32(9), 1807-1813.
• Haigh PA, Bausi F, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Minh HL, Flechon C, Cacialli F. Visible light communications: Real time 10 Mb/s link with a low bandwidth polymer lightemitting diode. Optics Express 2014, 22(3), 2830-2838.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I. 1.4-Mb/s white organic led transmission system using discrete multitone modulation. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2013, 25(6), 615-618.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Le Minh H. 2.7 Mb/s with a 93-kHz white organic light emitting diode and real time ANN equalizer. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2013, 25(17), 1687-1690.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Tedde F, Tedde SF, Hayden O, Rajbhandari S. A MIMO-ANN system for increasing data rates in organic visible light communications systems. In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013). 2013, Budapest, Hungary: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Papakonstantinou I, Rajbhandari S. Online artificial neural network equalization for a visible light communications system with an organic light emitting diode based transmitter. In: Proceedings of the 2013 18th European Conference on Network and Optical Communications (NOC 2013) and 2013 8th Conference on Optical Cabling and Infrastructure (OC&I 2013). 2013, Graz, Austria: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Rajbhandari S, Papakonstantinou I. Visible light communications using organic light emitting diodes. IEEE Communications Magazine 2013, 51(8), 148-154.
• Ghassemlooy Z, Haigh PA, Arca F, Tedde SF, Hayden O, Papakonstantinou I, Rajbhandari S. Visible light communications: 3.75 Mbits/s data rate with a 160 KHz bandwidth organic photodetector and artificial neural network equalization [invited]. Photonics Research 2013, 1(2), 65-68.
• Rajbhandari S, Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Popoola W. Wavelet-neural network VLC receiver in the presence of artificial light interference. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2013, 25(15), 1424-1427.
• Haigh PA, Son TT, Bentley E, Ghassemlooy Z, Le Minh H, Chao L. Development of a visible light communications system for optical wireless local area networks. In: Computing, Communications and Applications Conference (ComComAp 2012). 2012, Hong Kong, China: IEEE.
• Haigh PA, Ghassemlooy Z, Le Minh H, Rajbhandari S, Arca F, Tedde SF, Hayden O, Papakonstantinou I. Exploiting equalization techniques for improving data rates in organic optoelectronic devices for visible light communications. Journal of Lightwave Technology 2012, 30(19), 3081-3088.
• Burton A, Le Minh H, Ghassemlooy Z, Rajbhandari S, Haigh PA. Performance analysis for 180°receiver in visible light communications. In: 4th International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE 2012). 2012, Hue, Vietnam: IEEE.
• Burton A, Le Minh H, Ghassemlooy Z, Rajbhandari S, Haigh PA. Smart receiver for visible light communications: Design and analysis. In: 8th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2012). 2012, Poznan, Poland: IEEE.
• Le Minh H, Ghassemlooy Z, Burton A, Haigh PA. Equalization for organic light emitting diodes in visible light communications. In: IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops (GC Wkshps 2011). 2011, Houston, TX, USA: IEEE.