The lab, which will be able to accommodate 60 researchers, students and engineers, is located at the Centre for Wireless Innovation at the University’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT).
Executing a market driven, innovative approach, ECIT works closely with companies and entrepreneurs to establish the lab’s research objectives.
“Keysight has always been committed to working with and supporting academic institutions, not only to help develop the next generation of engineers, but to accelerate research, innovation and technological breakthroughs. We do this by helping to equip teaching and research laboratories with leading-edge instrumentation,” said Mark Pierpoint, president, Ixia Solutions Group Keysight Technologies.
Welcoming the announcement, Professor Vincent Fusco, Chief Technical Officer of ECIT and leader of microwave research at Queen’s University Belfast for over thirty years, commented: “This partnership with Queen’s University Belfast and Keysight gives us unprecedented measurement and instrumentation capabilities that will transform our microwave and millimeter-wave laboratories to advance our world leading research in this area.”
