Group Members
We are always looking for new students (PhD and MSc/MEng) and post-docs to join the team (see openings)
Director
Prof. Wen-Hua Chen
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Title: Professor in Autonomous Vehicles
Expertise: Unmanned vehicle, situational awareness, decision making, disturbance observer, model predictive control
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Centre Academic Member
Dr. Matthew Coombes
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Title: Lecture in Autonomous Vehicles
Expertise: Autonomous vehicles which include unmanned aerial system forced landing, situational awareness, autonomous taxiing, mission planning optimization
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Dr. Jingjing Jiang
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Title: Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles
Expertise: Shared-Control (i.e. Human-machine interactions), development of advanced driver assistant system (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, traffic control
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Dr. James Knowles
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Title: Senior Lecturer in Dynamics and Control
Expertise: Applications of Numerical Continuation to investigations of engineering systems, mathematical modelling and analysis of dynamical systems, vehicle dynamics
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Dr. Chengyuan Liu
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Title: Lecturer in Safety-Critical Control
Expertise: Safety-critical control and intelligent control for autonomous vehicles and robots
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Prof. Cunjia Liu
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Title: Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Expertise: Novel perception and decision algorithms for robotic and autonomous system and their applications in security, industry and agriculture domains
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Dr. Georgios Mavros
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Title: Reader in Intelligent Mobility and Vehicle Dynamics
Expertise: Thermo-mechanical and structural tyre modelling, tyre testing and model parameter identification, vehicle dynamics and control
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Dr. Thomas Steffen
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Title: Reader in Control of Energy Systems
Expertise: Electrification and control of hybrid vehicles, and the integration with the connected/autonomous vehicle
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Dr. Jun Yang
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Title: Reader in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles
Expertise: Disturbance observer, motion control, visual servoing, nonlinear control, and autonomous systems
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Dr. Yuanjian Zhang
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Title: Lecturer in Intelligent Electric Vehicles
Expertise: New generation clean propulsion control and optimisation, digital modelling and simulation, intelligent transportation system and artificial intelligence (AI) in engineering practice.
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Research Associates
Dr. Shengkai Guo
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Education: PhD in mechanical engineering
Research: Vibration energy harvesting, piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy conversion, IoT sensing systems, digital twin of health monitoring
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Dr. Rohit Nanavati
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Education: PhD in Aerospace Engineering
Research: Intelligent path planning for autonomous vehicles, active inference, sensor management, guidance and control design for aerospace vehicles, nonlinear control design
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Dr. Pramod Pashupathy
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Education: PhD in Aerospace Engineering
Research: Optimal control, nonlinear control, guidance of aerospace vehicles, state and parameter estimation
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Dr. Guoqiang Tan
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Education: PhD in control theory and control engineering
Research: Dual control, optimation, state estimation
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Dr. Shuoyuan Xu
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Education: PhD in Aerospace engineering
Research: Multi-target tracking, sensor fusion, SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping)
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Dr. Tao Yan
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Education: PhD in electrical and computer engineering
Research: Distributed control, robust control, signal processing, machine learning
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PhD Students
Yalei Yu
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Alumni
Yuefei Zuo
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Toa Tran
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Xinming Wang
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Dr. Xuefang Wang
Lecture in control engineering
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Education: PhD in control theory and control engineering
Current Institute: University of Leicester
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Dr. Yang Liu
Lecture Lecturer in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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Education: PhD in control science and engineering
Current Institute: University of Huddersfield
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Dr. Callum Rhodes
Research associate
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Education: PhD in automotive engineering
Current Institute: Imperial College London
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Dr. Yunda Yan
Lecture in robotics and AI
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Education: PhD in control science and engineering
Current Institute: University College London
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Dr. Zhongguo Li
Lecture in robotics, control, communication and AI
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Education: PhD in electrical and electronic engineering
Current Institute: University of Manchester
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Dr. Hyondong Oh
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Dr. Sujit Baliyarasimhuni
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Dr. CRistiano Premebida
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Dr. Andy Pickering
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Dr. Bowen Lu
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Dr. Fanlin Meng
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Dr. James Dunthorne
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Dr. William Eaton
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Dr. Runxiao Ding
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Dr. Shuo Liu
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Dr. Jean Smith
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Dr. Michael Hutchinson
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Dr. Pawel Ladosz
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Dr. Yali Xu
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Prof. Yunfeng Cao
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Dr. Songyin Cao
Associate Researcher
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Dr. Zhenhua Zhao
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Dr. Hao Lu
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Prof. Zhengping Feng
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Dr. Kang Wu
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