Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Deep learning for automated visual inspection
- Intelligent systems techniques for improving manufacturing competiveness
- Evolving Intelligent Behaviour in Cooperating Robots
- Flexible automation and cobotics
Public outreach & key achievements
- Pioneering Research Programmes
- Director, Centre for Intelligent and Autonomous Manufacturing Systems, Queen’s University Belfast (2016-)
- Research Director, Energy Power and Intelligent Control Research Cluster, Queen’s University Belfast (2012-)
- Member of the Board of Directors, Irish Manufacturing Research Ltd. (http://www.imr.ie) (2014-)
- Member, Board of Editors, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2013-)
- Associate Editor, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control (2010-)
- General Chair, 5th IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 28-30 August 2019.
Research students
| PhD title | Dynamic Voltage Optimization of Distribution Networks |
| Years of study | 2015-2019 |
| Country | Iran |
| PhD title | Electric Load Forecasting with Increased Embedded Renewable Generation |
| Years of study | 2015-2019 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD title | Advances in Machine Learning for semiconductor manufacturing |
| Years of study | 2016-2020 |
| Country | Italy |
| PhD title | Human-Robot Motor Coordination: Robots Inferring Human Intention |
| Years of study | 2019-2022 |
| Country | China |
Alumni: Where are they now
I have supervised 20 PhD students to completion to date – 11 international and 9 from the UK and Ireland.
| PhD title | Learning Systems for Process Identification and Control |
| Years of study | 2001-2004 |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Current Position | General Manager at CIBA VISION, Johor, Malaysia |
| PhD title | Unsupervised Feature Extraction Techniques for Plasma Semiconductor Etch Processes |
| Years of study | 2006-2010 |
| Country | China |
| Current Position | Data Scientist, OpenJaw Technologies, Dublin |
| PhD title | Estimating Movement from Mobile Telephony Data |
| Years of study | 2008-2013 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | Chief Data Scientist, Head of Research & Strategy, CDIO Data Insights, Deutsche Bank, Dublin |
| PhD title | Non-Contact Sleep Monitoring |
| Years of study | 2007-2012 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | Snr Data Scientist, Data Science and AI, Novartis, Dublin |