Roles and responsibilities
- Research and development of a radio telescope interference monitor for the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO)
- Software design and development of radio telescope monitor and control systems
Current research and/or projects
- DRAO Next-generation radio frequency interference monitor
- DRAO 26 m John A. Galt radio telescope upgrade
- DRAO seven-antenna synthesis telescope upgrade
Education
(ongoing) Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 2019
B.Eng, Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, 2016
Affiliations
University of Victoria (student)
Key publications
Nicholas Bruce, Stephen Harrison, Peter Driessen. DDC Pool: Efficient down-conversion of signals for RFI monitoring. In ECMWF RFI 2022 Workshop of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), February 2022.
Nicholas Bruce, Jeff Stacey, and Peter F. Driessen. Visibility Domain Direction-of-Arrival Optimization for Arbitrary 2-D Arrays. IEEE Access, 10:21646–21654, 2022.
Stephen Harrison, Aneet Lakhani, Jean-Pierre Lavigne, Nicholas Bruce, Timothy Robishaw, Robert Messing, Charl Baard, Michael A. Smith, Benoit Robert, and David Del Rizzo. RFI Monitor System Design for the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory. In 2021 XXXIVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), pages 1–4, Rome, Italy, August 2021. IEEE.
Nicholas Bruce, Stephen Harrison, Rodney Herring, and Peter Driessen. Development of a phased-array ionospheric imaging system. In 2019 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM), pages 1–8, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2019. IEEE.
Previous work experience
2018-2022 – Roughdraft Developments, Victoria, Canada
Software developer
Native and web full stack application development.
2015-2015 – Puga Mujica Asociados S.A., Santiago, Chile
Trainee Project Engineer
Civil infrastructure modelling and proposal development.
2014-2014 – Teck Resources Ltd., Sparwood, Canada
Maintenance Engineer Co-op
Mechanical system design, reliability control for a coal-processing plant.
2013-2014 – IBM, Victoria, Canada
IT Support and Virtualization Specialist Co-op
Software team support and virtualisation infrastructure development.
Additional links
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fT4TmEoAAAAJ
