Neil Johnson
ChairDr. Neil Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer at Roku Europe Ltd, developing multimedia consumer products from streaming sticks and sound bars to smart TVs. Previous roles have included Cambridge Consultants, where he developed low-power 16- and 32-bit embedded processors and led a team in developing a novel speech recognition system, and at Broadcom where he developed the architecture for a multistandard mobile TV protocol stack for the VideoCore media coprocessor.
Neil received his BEng and MSc degrees at the University of Surrey in 1993 and 1996 respectively, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory in 2004. He is a Member of the IET, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the AES, and is a Chartered Electrical Engineer.
His areas of interest include low-level embedded systems hardware and software, and the design and development of electronic music synthesizers encompassing analogue, digital and MIDI technologies.