Dr Murat Uney
Bio
Dr Murat Uney is a lecturer in signal processing at The University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in the theory of signal processing and machine learning; probabilistic models and Bayesian computations for applications in sensor fusion, signal and information processing and data sciences. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2013-18), a Research Scientist at the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (2018-21), and a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (2021-25).
Murat is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
He is an Associate Editor for Elsevier Digital Signal Processing and a reviewer for several journals and conferences.
Research Updates
Recent research outcome “Tree Reparameterized Belief Propagation for Gaussian Markov Random Fields” is submitted to ICASSP 2026. The paper provides explicit formulae and an algorithmic framework for TRP-BP on GMRFs and, through experiments, demonstrates that TRP-BP converges faster than loopy BP in the case of certain pairwise Gaussian MRFs.
The code used in the submission is in the Tree-Reparameterized-Belief-Propagation github repository.
Previously, I was the Liverpool principal investigator (PI) in a collaborative project with Prof James Hopgood that addressed radar signal processing problems using advanced Bayesian computations. This project investigated a novel approach to coherent long-time integration, namely, coherent track-before-detect. The Liverpool team had Prof Simon Maskell and Dr Paul Horridge onboard.
Ongoing work aims to complete publications from the outcomes.
Co-authors
- Prof Simon Maskell (University of Liverpool)
- Dr Paul Horridge (University of Liverpool)
- Prof Bernard Mulgrew (The University of Edinburgh)
- Prof Daniel Clark (University of Southampton)
- Dr Jeremie Houssineau (Nanyang Technological University)
- Dr Emmanuel Delande (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)
- Prof Simon Julier (University College London)
Post-docs
- Dr Amir Belmekki
PhD students
- Mr Chris Blackman, Machine Learning for Object Detection and Classification for Multimodal Airborne Sensor Data, co-supervised by Prof Yalin Zheng.
- Mr Will Shaw, Using machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve the tracking of vessels in sonar spectrograms, co-supervised by Dr Daniel Colquitt.
- Mr Christian Pollitt, Machine Learning of Behavioural Models for Improved Multi-Sensor Fusion, co-supervised by Dr Mario Gianni.
Graduated:
- Dr Oisin Boyle, Block sparse Bayesian learning with applications to spectral unmixing for Plasma Optical Emission Spectra, University of Liverpool, 2025, co-supervised by Prof Xinping Yi and Dr Joseph Brindley.
- Dr Kimin Kim, Reliable detection and characterisation of dim targets via track-before-detect, University of Edinburgh, 2021, co-supervised by Prof Bernard Mulgrew.
Teaching
Murat holds a Post-graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) from the University of Liverpool.
- Array Signal Processing and MIMO Systems (2025-26)
- Signals and Communication Systems (2025-26)
- Advanced Signal Processing (2024-25)
- Avionics (2024-25)
- Communication Systems and Avionics (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24)
- Optimal and Adaptive Filtering (UDRC Summer School 2015, 2016, 2017 [ hand-outs ])
- Handouts: A Signals and Systems Primer
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