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Postdoctoral Research Staff

Name: Dr Faisal Iqbal

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: Ashby Building 

Email: i.faisal@qub.ac.uk 

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Research Interests: MEMS, Inertial Sensors, Resonators, Energy Harvesting

 

Name: Mr Che Cameron

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: Ashby/David Keir Building 

Email: ccameron07@qub.ac.uk 

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Name: Mr Medhi Rakhtala

Job Title: Mechatronics Programme Developer

Location: 8th floor Researcher Office

Email: m.rakhtala@qub.ac.uk

Biography: 

I am a Mechatronics Programme Developer at Queen’s University Belfast that are planning to launch a new Engineering programme related to Mechatronics and Robotics.

 I received my PhD in Control Engineering, Automation and Robotic in 2013.

Before joining QUB, my career background in industrial environments and university position is over twenty years and divided into the following categories: From September 2013, I was as an Assistant Professor at the university on the topic of Mechatronic, Industrial automation, Control and Robotic. I improved my leadership experience by accepting Head of Electrical Department at University from 2014 until 2018. Since 2014, I have established a mechatronic Programme for Postgraduate at the University.

 

 Regarding teaching interests at the university, I can refer to about twelve years of teaching background as an Assistant Prof. and Guest Lecturer at universities. In this period, the experiences of PhD and M.Sc. students supervisory were included. The outputs of the research and the student supervisory are 58 journal and conference papers and the reviewer more than eighteen high-impact Journals and more than 29 research projects and industrial projects in industries.

 

Research & Education Interests

Due to my strong background in the industrial environment, my research in control engineering is based on application-oriented.

Current subjects:

Mechatronic and Bio-Mechatronic such as Robotic control, Wearable robots/ Rehabilitation robots, soft robotics, IoT in Manufacturing, Precision control of 3D printers, Nonlinear control and observer and Industrial automation systems (PLCs- Monitoring).

 

Name: Fazal Akbar

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: Ashby Tower

Email: f.akbar@qub.ac.uk 

 

 Name: Karim Ahmadi Dastgerdi

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: Ashby Tower

Email: k.ahmadidastgerdi@qub.ac.uk 

 

Name: Iqbal Faisal 

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: Ashby Tower

Email: i.faisal@qub.ac.uk 

 

Name: Federico Zocco

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: Ashby Tower 

Email: f.zocco@qub.ac.uk

 

Name: Abhiram Bhanuprakash

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: SARC

Email: a.bhanuprakash@qub.ac.uk