Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Intelligent systems techniques for improving manufacturing competitiveness and sustainability
- Intelligent systems techniques for smart grid data analytics and optimisation
- Deep learning for automated visual inspection, soft sensing and predictive maintenance
- Deep learning for time series prediction and forecasting
- Physics informed Neural networks and their applications.
- Evolving Intelligent Behaviour in Cooperating Robots
- Flexible automation and cobotics (human-robot collaboration)
Public outreach & key achievements
- 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 (2012-2024)
- Member of the Board of Directors, Irish Manufacturing Research Ltd. (http://www.imr.ie) (2014-2021)
- 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 | Electric Load Forecasting with Increased Embedded Renewable Generation |
| Name | Judith Foster |
| Years of study | 2015-2019 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD title | Advances in Machine Learning for semiconductor manufacturing |
| Name | Federico Zocca |
| Years of study | 2016-2020 |
| Country | Italy |
| PhD title | Human-Robot Motor Coordination: Robots Inferring Human Intention |
| Name | Dianhao Zhang |
| Years of study | 2019-2022 |
| Country | China |
Alumni: Where are they now
I have supervised 28 PhD students to completion to date - 26 international and 12 from the UK and Ireland.
| PhD title | Learning Systems for Process Identification and Control |
| Name | James Govindashamy |
| Years of study | 2001-2004 |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Current Position | General Manager at CIBA VISION, Johor, Malaysia |
| PhD title | Non-contact Sleep Monitoring |
| Name | Lorcan Walsh |
| Years of study | 2007-2012 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | Digital Endpoint Capability Centre Lead, Novartis, Dublin |
| PhD title | Dynamic Voltage Optimization of Distribution Networks |
| Name | Hani Gharavi |
| Years of study | 2015-2019 |
| Country | Iran |
| Current Position | Senior Lead Power Systems Consultant - Transmission and Interconnection, PSC Consulting, Texas, United States |