Sir John (James) O'Reilly

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CEng FREng,

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(born 1 December 1946) was

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Cranfield University , mottoeng = After clouds light , established = 1946 - College of Aeronautics 1969 - Cranfield Institute of Technology (gained university status by royal charter) 1993 - Cranfield University (adopted current name) , type = Public research uni ...

from 2006 to 2013. He is the son of Patrick William and Dorothy Ann O’Reilly. He has one son and one daughter.

Career

He was a student apprentice at the

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from 1963–69. He later attended

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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 1985–94. He was Head of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems at the University college of North Wales, later the

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, Bangor 1985–93 where he gained a PhD in 1982. He was Principal Research Fellow at

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Labs from 1993–94. He was Professor of Telecommunications from 1994–2001 and head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 1997–2001 at

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. He then became Chief Executive of EPSRC. He later became

from 2006–2013. He was knighted in 2007. He left Cranfield and became

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, Knowledge and Innovation, BIS, from 2013 – 2015. Since 2015, he is Chairman of NICC Ltd., - a company which develops interoperability standards for public communications networks and services in the UK. In 2019, he named an

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for contributions to Singapore in engineering research and development.

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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:OReilly, John People associated with Cranfield University Alumni of Brunel University London People associated with the University of Essex People associated with Bangor University People associated with University College London 1946 births Living people Academics of Cranfield University Knights Bachelor Honorary Citizens of Singapore