Professor Eddie Ball

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (2021-2028)

Eddie Ball
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e.a.ball@sheffield.ac.uk
Sir Frederick Mappin Building

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Professor Eddie Ball
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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I am a Professor in RF Engineering, in the Communications Research Group.

Prior to starting at 爆料TV in 2015, my career has been as a practising RF Engineer in industry:-

  • Tunstall Healthcare Ltd (Principal RF Engineer & Radio System Architect) 2011-2015
  • Cambridge Consultants Ltd (Principal RF Engineer, in Wireless Business Unit) 1996 - 2011

My industrial expertise is in building innovative, bespoke, wireless systems that require a balanced and holistic view of RF / Digital / DSP / Protocol aspects to achieve best partitioning for performance vs cost trade-off. I am experienced in adapting COTS radio protocols and creating bespoke protocols.

I am particularly experienced and passionate about hardware design, for both high volume and low volume manufacture.

My reach extends from the pre-specification creation process, through all theoretical aspects of RF design, to the practical lab bench development and field test; all core to the creation of a mass producible item. I鈥檓 also experienced at talent identification and selection for developing high capability teams.

Research interests
  • Novel RF circuit design
  • Novel RF system design, including DSP and Software Defined Radio
  • Novel applications of RF and radio technology (including non-communications applications)
  • Future IoT radios
  • Millimetre wavelength radios
  • RF MMIC and RF SiGe design
Publications

Journal articles

  • Ball EA & David Joseph S (2025) . IEEE Journal of Microwaves.
  • Joseph SD & Ball EA (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 15(9), 1986-1995.
  • David Joseph S, Davies B, Davies M, Ball EA & Willmott JR (2025) . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 6(6), 1717-1727.
  • Asfour RW, Khamas SK & Ball EA (2025) . IEEE Access, 13, 4267-4280.
  • Ball E & David Joseph S (2025) . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 6(1), 144-162.
  • Zhao Y, Deng T, Gavin B, Ball EA & Seed L (2025) . IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 6, 460-467.
  • Joseph SD, Gavin B & Ball EA (2024) . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 5(3), 543-556.
  • Gavin B, Deng T & Ball E (2024) . IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 5, 50-61.
  • Asfour R, Khamas SK, Ball EA, Ng JS, Huang G, Allanic R, Le Berre D, Quendo C, Leuliet A & Merlet T (2024) . Sensors, 24(2).
  • Asfour R, Khamas SK & Ball EA (2023) . Sensors, 23(24).
  • Asfour RW, Khamas SK & Ball EA (2023) . IEEE Access, 11, 122016-122028.
  • Zhao Y, Gavin WCJ, Deng T, Ball EA & Seed L (2023) . IEEE Access, 11, 120955-120962.
  • Ball EA, Joseph SD & Tennant A (2023) . IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 4, 626-640.
  • Ball E (2023) Omar. NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 70(9).
  • Yu H, Ball E & Saad R () An RF-Switch-Enabled Low-Power Dual-Mode Reconfigurable Reflective Surface. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
  • David Joseph S, Davies B, Davies M, Ball EA & Willmott JR () Additive Manufacturing on Kapton substrate for rapid prototyping of low-cost mmWave antennas. IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation.

Conference proceedings

  • Joseph SD & Ball EA (2025) . 2025 International Symposium ELMAR (pp 145-148), 15 September 2025 - 17 September 2025.
  • Joseph SD & Ball EA (2025) . 2025 International Symposium ELMAR (pp 209-212), 15 September 2025 - 17 September 2025.
  • Ali M, Ball E, Joseph SD, O'Farrell T & Anbiyaei MR (2025) . 2025 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom) (pp 1-4). Nice, France, 7 July 2025 - 7 July 2025.
  • Ball EA & Joseph SD (2025) . 2025 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom) (pp 1-5). Nice, France, 7 July 2025 - 7 July 2025.
  • Anbiyaei MR, Snr TO, Ali M & Ball EA (2025) . 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) (pp 1031-1036), 8 June 2025 - 12 June 2025.
  • Joseph SD & Ball EA (2025) . 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). Stockholm, Sweden, 30 March 2025 - 30 March 2025.
  • Ball EA & Joseph SD (2025) . 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). Stockholm, Sweden, 30 March 2025 - 30 March 2025.
  • Yu H, Saad R & Ball EA (2025) . 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) (pp 1-4), 30 March 2025 - 4 April 2025.
  • Anbiyaei MR, O'Farrell T, Ali M & Ball EA (2025) . 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (pp 1-6), 24 March 2025 - 27 March 2025.
  • Anbiyaei MR, O'Farrell T, Ali M & Ball EA (2025) . 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (pp 1-3), 24 March 2025 - 27 March 2025.
  • Joseph SD, Davies BE, Davies MM, Ball EA & Willmott JR (2025) . 2024 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON). Hyderabad, India, 9 December 2024 - 9 December 2024.
  • Joseph SD, Askre S & Ball EA (2025) . 2024 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON). Hyderabad, India, 9 December 2024 - 9 December 2024.
  • Asfour R, Albakosh W, Khamas SK & Ball EA (2024) . 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and INC/USNC鈥怳RSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/INC-USNC-URSI) (pp 189-190), 14 July 2024 - 19 July 2024.
  • Ball EA & Joseph SD (2024) . 2024 15th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) (pp 144-147). Duisburg, Germany, 11 March 2024 - 11 March 2024.
  • Ball EA, Joseph SD & Tennant A (2024) . 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) (pp 1-5), 17 March 2024 - 22 March 2024.
  • Joseph SD, Ball EA & Tennant A (2024) . 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) (pp 1-5), 17 March 2024 - 22 March 2024.
  • Joseph SD & Ball EA (2024) . 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) (pp 1-5), 17 March 2024 - 22 March 2024.
  • Allanic R, Le Berre D, Quendo C, Ball EA, Shien Ng J, Huang G, Leuliet A & Merlet T (2023) . 2023 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA) (pp 653-656). Genoa, Italy, 15 November 2023 - 15 November 2023.
  • Allanic R, Le Berre D, Quendo C, Ball EA, Shien Ng J, Huang G, Leuliet A & Merlet T (2023) . 2023 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA) (pp 649-652). Genoa, Italy, 15 November 2023 - 15 November 2023.
  • Ball E & Joseph SD (2023) . 2023 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA) Proceedings (pp 560-563). Genoa, Italy, 15 November 2023 - 15 November 2023.
  • Carroll T, Wong T, Morris M, Stone M, Di Germanio C, Ball E, Simmons G, Busch M & Miller C (2023) . Transfusion, Vol. 63(S5)
  • Joseph SD, Ball EA, Davies B, Davies M, Willmott JR, Kettle J & Harwell J () . REACT 2025 (pp 8-8)
  • Ball EA & Joseph SD () 73 GHz pHEMT pumped transconductance RX Mixer with low local oscillator drive power. Proceedings of The 50th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves. Espoo, Finland, 17 August 2025 - 17 August 2025.
  • Ball EA & Joseph SD () Microwave subsampler using cascaded cold pHEMTs. Proceedings of The 50th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves. Espoo, Finland, 17 August 2025 - 17 August 2025.
  • Ali M, Ball EA, Joseph SD, O'Farrell T & Anbiyaei MR () Dual-mode E-band mixer for 6G mmWave front-ends: simple structure with reconfigurable PT/resistive operation for optimized gain and linearity. Proceedings of The 50th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves. Espoo, Finland, 17 August 2025 - 17 August 2025.
Teaching activities
  • I created and teach EEE6239 鈥淩ADIO TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM & CIRCUIT DESIGN鈥 to final year M.Eng. and MSc students. In this course we explore contemporary aspects of RF circuit design and Software Defined Radio and then investigate them in the lab.
  • I created and teach 鈥淰HF SYNTHESISER FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS鈥 as part of the 2nd year Design Exercise EEE262.
Professional activities and memberships
  • SMIEE
  • MIET
Other responsibilities
  • Theme Lead for Electromagnetics, Wireless Hardware & RF Devices. 
  • Director of UKRI National mmWave Measurement Facility.
     

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