Name: Ms Bhawana Singh

Job Title: Research Fellow - Autonomous Systems

Location: Ashby Building

Email: b.singh@qub.ac.uk

Bio:

I did my PhD in the area of Control Systems from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi India in 2021. Currently, I am working as a Research fellow in Autonomous Systems in particular marine systems.

Name: Dr Che Cameron

Job Title: Research Fellow - Net Zero Energy Systems and Manufacturing Digitalisation

Location: Ashby/David Keir Building 

Email: ccameron07@qub.ac.uk 

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Bio:

Ché Cameron is a research fellow at Queen's University Belfast with interests in Energy Decarbonisation, Net Zero Transition, and Machine Learning for Manufacturing Digitalisation. He is undertaking a cost-benefit analysis for net zero transition pathways in Northern Ireland, in a Department for Economy funded project. The project activities include energy system modelling, programmatic model linking and translation, financial and economic forecasting and assessment, and stakeholder engagement and investigation. The outputs of the project directly contribute to the evidence base used by policy makers in the region.

Ché's undergraduate studies were undertaken at Queen's University Belfast, where he gained an MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2017, and was awarded the Frost-Smith memorial prize and the IET prize. Following this, he joined the OPTEMIN project as a PhD student, where he developed and deployed a full-stack sensor-to-simulation manufacturing digitalisation system to a live commercial environment, using low-cost open-source technologies. He joined the Bryden Centre in September 2021, where he completed a techno-economic analysis of co-located hydrogen production and wastewater treatment, using network modelling and real-world data supplied by NI Water.

His work involves data acquisition (node hardware design, firmware development, and wireless sensor networking), data management and engineering, algorithmic and graph-based time series analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning analysis, and techno-economic multi-scale system modelling. He continues to work with a range of industry and stakeholders to explore their strategic and tactical challenges, assess competing decarbonisation and energy scenarios, and identify and exploit opportunities for improving efficiency.

 Name: Karim Ahmadi Dastgerdi

Job Title: Research Fellow - Path-planning algorithm for ship

Location: Ashby Tower

Email: k.ahmadidastgerdi@qub.ac.uk 

Bio:

I am an accomplished aerospace engineer with a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, specializing in flight dynamics and control. I am a research fellow at Queen's University Belfast EEECS. Currently, I am actively involved in a project led by Artemis Technologies Limited, where my primary focus is on the development of collision avoidance path-planning algorithms for high-speed passenger ferries.
In my previous role as a postdoctoral researcher at the Smart Flight Lab in Turkey, my research revolved around an autonomous vision-based landing of multirotor vehicles, specifically addressing motor faults. This experience allowed me to delve into the intricacies of fault-tolerant control and gain practical knowledge by implementing these algorithms on various hardware platforms and generic drones for flight testing.
Throughout my career, I have honed my skills in control system design, adaptive control, robotics, robust control, fault-tolerant control, and linear and nonlinear control algorithms, with a particular focus on their application in aerial vehicles.

Name: Abhiram Bhanuprakash

Job Title: Research Fellow

Location: SARC

Email: a.bhanuprakash@qub.ac.uk

Bio:

I am from Mysore, India. I hold a B.E. degree (2011) from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) Mysore in the subject electronics and communication, and a M.Sc (Engg.) degree (2014) in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science. I have worked at MathWorks as a Quality Engineer during 2014-2018. Currently I am pursuing a PhD in the school of EEECS, QUB, working on music technology, specifically on making virtual-acoustic instruments. Reading fiction, watching football and singing Carnatic classical music are my hobbies.

Name: Miftahur Rahman

Job Title: Research Fellow - Robotics, simulation, ROS

Location: Ashby Building 

Email: miftahur.rahman@qub.ac.uk

Bio:

Currently working on a US-Ireland R&D Partnership Project. Successful completion of this project will simulate and demonstrate the use of robots with computer vision, Mixed-Reality, and AI for the steel structure assembly process. Prior to joining QUB, I pursued PhD at Cranfield University, UK. I completed my Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Military Institute of Technology, Bangladesh.