Sudanese Professor, Jaafar Elmirghani, honoured with 2016 Edison Award
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Professor Jaafar Elmirghani from the University of Leeds School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering together with six colleagues from GreenTouch, has received the prestigious 2016 Edison Award.
The Edison Awards™ – named after the inventor Thomas A Edison – is an annual, global competition honouring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centred design, and innovation. Winners represent “game-changing” products, services, excellence and leadership in innovation around four criteria: Concept, Value, Delivery and Impact.
Professor Elmirghani’s award is under the category ‘Collective Disruption’ and was given for work on the GreenTouch GreenMeter, which aims to green the Internet and improve the energy efficiency of communication networks by a factor of 1000.
Over the past six years Professor Elmirghani has led the UK national effort in communication networks energy efficiency improvement through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) £6m INTERNET* Programme Grant with the University of Cambridge and several industrial collaborators including BT, BBC, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and O2. He has also led the international effort over the same period through GreenTouch, an international consortium of over 50 partner organisations.
Professor Elmirghani said: “I am delighted that my work and that of my colleagues in GreenTouch and in the EPSRC INTERNET Programme Grant has been recognised through this top international award which is a testimony to the quality of the work, its pioneering nature, but also its importance in the world scene.” Read More >>