James John Miles

Jim Miles
Born James John Miles
7 February 1959
Institutions
Alma mater University of Liverpool
Thesis Information storage on thin film media (1990)
Doctoral students
  • Jennifer Talbot
  • David Shepherd
  • Michal Wdowin[2]
  • Boon Cheong Choo[3]
  • Premjeyanth Sivasamy[4]
  • David Edmundson [5]
  • Josephat Kalezhi [6][7][8]
  • Vassilios Tsiantos[9][10][11]
  • Branson Belle[12]
  • James Jun Jin[13]
Website
manchester.ac.uk/research/jim.miles

James John Miles (born 1959) is a Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester where he is currently head of department and a member of the Nano Engineering & Storage Technology Research Group (NEST).[14][15][16]

Education

Miles graduated with a first class honours degree in Physics from the University of Liverpool in 1980. Following this he completed a Master of Science in Computational physics from the University of Salford in 1987 and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1990.[17]

Research

Miles has worked at the Meteorological Office modelling the formation of storm clouds and completed research in novel anaesthetic delivery systems for BOC Medishield, now Datex Ohmeda. Since 1987 he has worked in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Manchester School of Engineering and the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

His current research interests are in magnetic materials[18][19][20][21] for data storage purposes, including micromagnetic modelling[21] of thin magnetic films for hard disks.[22] He is involved in the Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Extremely High Density Recording (EHDR) programme,[23] determining the architecture and design of future 1 Terabit per square inch hard disk products and beyond.[24][25][26]

His research[10][20][27] is done in collaboration with academic and industrial research groups, including Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), San Jose, California and Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, USA.

Research funding

Miles research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.,[28] European Union and INSIC. He has been involved in obtaining grant funding in excess of £3 million of which £1.6 million is in grants or awards for which he was the principal applicant.[28] Miles is also a member of one of the groups that secured Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF)[29] for the £1.8M Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology.

Other activities

In the University, Miles was Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences from 2008 to 2011. He has supervised several PhD students via the Doctoral Training Centre, the first of its kind in the UK.

Previously Miles has been an editor of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

References

  1. ↑ Miles, J. J.; Chantrell, R. W.; Parker, M. R. (1985). "Model of magnetic-field-induced ordering in dispersions of fine paramagnetic particles". Journal of Applied Physics 57 (8): 4271. Bibcode:1985JAP....57.4271M. doi:10.1063/1.334582.
  2. ↑ Wdowin, Michal (1996). Simulation of magnetic microscopy (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  3. ↑ Choo, Boon Cheong (2003). Signal and noise characteristics of novel longitudinal and perpendicular media for ultra-high density magnetic recording (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  4. ↑ Sivasamy, Premjeyanth (1996). Experimental studies of magnetic recording on rigid disks (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  5. ↑ Edmundson, David (2002). The computer simulation of writing of nanoscale patterned magnetic recording media with a magnetic force microscope tip (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  6. ↑ Kalezhi, Josephat (2011). Modelling data storage in nano-island magnetic materials (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  7. ↑ Kalezhi, J.; Miles, J. J. (2011). "Analysis of write-head synchronization and adjacent track erasure in bit patterned media using a statistical model". Journal of Applied Physics 109 (7): 07B755. Bibcode:2011JAP...109gB755K. doi:10.1063/1.3562869.
  8. ↑ Kalezhi, J.; Miles, J. J. (2011). "An Energy Barrier Model for Write Errors in Exchange-Spring Patterned Media". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 47 (10): 2540. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2011.2157993.
  9. ↑ Tsiantos, Vassilios (2000). Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations in micromagnetic simulations (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 James John Miles's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  11. ↑ James John Miles at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  12. ↑ Belle, Branson (2007). Fabrication of patterned magnetic materials for data storage (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  13. ↑ Jin, James Jun (2007). Simulations of antiferromagnetically coupled thin film media (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  14. ↑ "NEST: Prof Jim Miles (School of Computer Science - The University of Manchester)". Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  15. ↑ "Research Groups: NEST: Nano Engineering & Storage Technology Research Group (School of Computer Science - The University of Manchester)". Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  16. ↑ James John Miles's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  17. ↑ Miles, James John (1990). Information storage on thin film media (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.(subscription required)
  18. ↑ Miles, J. J.; Wdowin, M.; Oakley, J.; Middleton, B. K. (1995). "The effect of cluster size on thin film media noise". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 31 (2): 1013. doi:10.1109/20.364777.
  19. ↑ Kheong Sann Chan; Miles, J. J.; Euiseok Hwang; Vijayakumar, B.; Jian-Gang Zhu; Wen-Chin Lin; Negi, R. (2009). "TDMR Platform Simulations and Experiments". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 45 (10): 3837. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024001.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Saharan, L.; Morrison, C.; Miles, J. J.; Thomson, T.; Schrefl, T.; Hrkac, G. (2011). "Angle dependence of the switching field of recording media at finite temperatures". Journal of Applied Physics 110 (10): 103906. Bibcode:2011JAP...110j3906S. doi:10.1063/1.3662919.
  22. ↑ Morrison, C.; Saharan, L.; Hrkac, G.; Schrefl, T.; Ikeda, Y.; Takano, K.; Miles, J. J.; Thomson, T. (2011). "Inter/intra granular exchange and thermal activation in nanoscale granular magnetic materials". Applied Physics Letters 99 (13): 132507. Bibcode:2011ApPhL..99m2507M. doi:10.1063/1.3644469.
  23. ↑ "EHDR Program Conclusion". Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  24. ↑ Wood, R. W.; Miles, J.; Olson, T. (2002). "Recording technologies for terabit per square inch systems". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 38 (4): 1711. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2002.1017761.
  25. ↑ Wood, R.; Williams, M.; Kavcic, A.; Miles, J. (2009). "The Feasibility of Magnetic Recording at 10 Terabits Per Square Inch on Conventional Media". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 45 (2): 917. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2008.2010676.
  26. ↑ Miles, J. J.; McKirdy, D. M. .; Chantrell, R. W.; Wood, R. (2003). "Parametric optimization for terabit perpendicular recording". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 39 (4): 1876. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2003.813785.
  27. ↑ James John Miles's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewPerson.aspx?PersonId=10840 Grants awarded to Jim Miles by the EPSRC
  29. ↑ http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/science/science-funding/science-research-investment-fund
Academic offices
Preceded by
Norman Paton		 Head of the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
2011–present 		Incumbent