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Biography

 

Education

• Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching, Queen's University Belfast, UK (2009)
  
• PhD Mechanical and Marine Engineering, University of Plymouth, UK (2004)
• MSc Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (2001)
• BE Electrical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan (1999)

Work Experience

• Lecturer, Intelligent Systems and Control, QUB (2007 to date)
• Research Fellow in Autonoums Vehicle Control, School of Engineering, University of Plymouth, UK (2005 - 2007)
• Research and Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia (1999 - 2001)
• Research and Development Engineer, Laser Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd., Pakistan (1998 - 1999)

Research Interests

• Control algorithms development for unmanned systems including robotics
  
• Collision avoidance strategies for unmanned aerial and marine vehicles with emphasis on standardised procedures
• System identification and modelling of electro-mechanical systems

Research Funding

• Co-Investigator, EPSRC funded project, "Upgrading Small Equipment", December 2012 (£124,539, EP/K029371/1)
• Principle Investigator, EPSRC funded project, "COLREGs-based Evasive Decision Making in Maritime Vehicles" February 2011 - September 2012 (£101k, EP/I003347/1)

Professional Activities and Memberships

• Member, EPSRC Peer Review College
• Member IET (MIET)
• UK Publications Chair and IPC Member, 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment (ICSEE) Conference, Shanghai, China, September 2012
• Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Committee member, IEEE SMC Chapter, Ireland
• Foreign Editor, Asian Journal of Engineering Science and Technology
• UK Publications Chair and IPC Member, International Conferences on Life System Modeling and Simulation, China, September 2010
  
• UK Publications Chair and IPC Member, International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, China, September 2010
• Steering and programme committee member of the IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference since 2008
• Reviewer for International Journal of Control
• Reviewer for IMechE Proceedings
  
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  
• Reviewer for International Journal of Systems Science
• Chaired a session in the IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Ancona, Italy in 2006
  

Awards / Achievements

• Michael Richey medal by the Royal Institute of Navigation for authoring the best journal paper published in the Journal of Navigation in 2007 (details)
• Denny Medal by the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) for authoring the best journal paper published in the Journal of Marine Science and Environment in 2004.
  
• Fully funded EPSRC studentship to pursue a PhD program at the University of Plymouth
• Fully funded by IMarEST, UK to present an invited paper at the World Maritime Technology Conference in San Francisco in 2003
• Research and Teaching Assistantship at KFUPM

PGR Supervision

• Sable Campbell (Marine Collision Avoidance)
  
• Steven Byrne (Cooperative Control of Robotic Manipulators)
  
• Sookyen Lau aka Lesley (Formation Control Algorithms for Unmanned Vehicles)
  
• Okechukwu Ihemadu aka Okey (Intelligent Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping)
• Ziqi Yang aka Wallace

Past Students

• Aolei Yang aka Bert (Formation Control Algorithms for UAVs)