Rob Maunder
Founder And CTO at National Sun Yat-Sen University
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Maunder is a founder and CTO who spun AccelerComm out of the University of Southampton and has blended academic rigour with commercial engineering since 2016. A professor of telecommunications with a PhD and over 100 IEEE publications, he specialises in joint source/channel coding and co-design of algorithms and hardware for wireless systems. He holds senior and fellow status in IEEE/IET, reflecting a track record of technical leadership and professional recognition. Rob balances university roles with industry impact, maintaining an active research group while scaling a deep-tech startup bringing advanced coding solutions to market. Based in Southampton and now also a visiting professor abroad, he combines long-term academic mentorship with hands-on productisation of cutting-edge communications tech. Notably, his career path shows continuous progression from placements at DERA and QinetiQ to senior professorship and entrepreneurial leadership, underscoring practical experience across research, industry and commercialization.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Telecommunications, PhD Telecommunications at University of Southampton
Github Skills (5)
matlab10
decoder10
encoder10
forward-error-correction10
lte9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
robmaunder/polar-3gpp-matlab
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Matlab simulations of the encoder and SCL decoder for the New Radio polar code from 3GPP Release 15
Contributions:1 release, 141 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years
encodermatlabmatlab-simulationpolar-3gpp-matlabscl-decoder
robmaunder/exit-matlab
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Tools for plotting Extrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts in Matlab
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
matlab
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