John O'Reilly (engineer)

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Sir John (James) O'Reilly DSc PhD CEng FREng, FRAes FLSW (born 1 December 1946) was Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University from 2006 to 2013. He is the son of Patrick William and Dorothy Ann O'Reilly. [1] He has one son and one daughter. [1]

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Career

He was a student apprentice at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern from 1963 to 1969. He later attended Brunel University gaining a BTech degree in 1969 and a DSc in 1991. He was a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex 1972–85 and Professor of Electronic Engineering from 1985 to 1994. He was Head of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems at the University college of North Wales, later the University of North Wales, Bangor 1985–93 where he gained a PhD in 1982. He was Principal Research Fellow at British Telecom Labs from 1993 to 1994. He was Professor of Telecommunications from 1994 to 2001 and head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 1997–2001 at University College London. He then became Chief Executive of EPSRC. [1]

He later became Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University from 2006 to 2013. He was knighted in 2007. [2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011. [3]

He left Cranfield and became Director General, Knowledge and Innovation, BIS, from 2013 – 2015. [1] [4]

Since 2015, he is Chairman [5] of NICC Ltd., [5] - a company which develops interoperability standards for public communications networks and services in the UK.

In 2019, he named an Honorary Citizen of Singapore for contributions to Singapore in engineering research and development. [6]

Publications

Telecommunication Principles, 1984 Optimisation Methods in Electronics and Communications, 1984 (edited with K. W. Cattermole) Problems of Randomness in Communication Engineering, 1984 Has also contributed numerous conference papers.

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References

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  2. "Academy Fellows honoured by The Queen - Royal Academy of Engineering". Archived from the original on 2017-07-26. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  3. Wales, The Learned Society of. "John O'Reilly". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  4. "Sir John O'Reilly to quit as top HE and science civil servant". Times Higher Education (THE). November 3, 2014. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Board of Directors | NICC Standards".
  6. Begum, Shabana (2019-04-27). "Doctor, A*Star engineer named honorary citizens". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
Academic offices
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Vice Chancellor
Cranfield University

2006-2013
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