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Dr Imelda Friel
Research Fellow
Queen’s University Belfast
Imelda graduated with a PhD from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2018. She previously completed a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2014, with an industrial placement as a Manufacturing Engineer at B/E Aerospace (now Collins Aerospace).…
Dr Simon Hickinbotham
Research Fellow
University of York
Simon studied Ecology at Bachelors level at RHBNC London, before moving to York to complete an MSc in Biological Computation in 1994. His research project led to an EPSRC-funded position as a research associate in computer vision, which was the…
Dr Paul Goodall
Senior Research Associate
Loughborough University
Paul graduated with a PhD from the school of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough in 2015 having previously completed an MEng in Mechanical Engineering. His PhD focused upon cost estimation for remanufacturing, using techniques including case-based reasoning and…
Dr Edgar Buchanan Berumen
Research Fellow
University of York
Edgar completed his PhD in 2019 from the University of York in the Department of Electronics. His PhD focused upon the fault-tolerance in foraging robotics swarms. After completing his PhD, Edgar worked as Research Associate in the Autonomous Robotic Evolution…
Dr Zhiwei Zhao
Research Fellow
Queen’s University Belfast
Zhiwei graduated with a PhD from college of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2022. His major is aerospace manufacturing engineering, and his PhD project titled “Deformation control method driven by deformation force monitoring data…
Dr Thomas Shannon
Research Fellow
Queen’s University Belfast
Thomas studied for his Master’s and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast, completing in 2022. His PhD project was entitled “A Feature-Mapping Optimisation Framework for CAD Based Design”, where he explored the potential of integrating topology optimisation frameworks…
Dr Geunhyeok Choi
Research Fellow
Loughborough University
Choi received an PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Hongik University, South Korea, in 2024. Choi’s PhD research focused on numerical simulation of multiphase flows and the development of a novel method for effectively predicting fluid flow and heat transfer…
Ryan Williamson
Research Fellow
Loughborough University
Ryan is set to graduate with a PhD from Loughborough University’s Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering in 2024. Previously graduating from Durham University in 2018 with a Master’s Degree in Physics. The focus of Ryan’s PhD was…
Farajollah (Fred) Tahermezhadjavazm
Research Fellow
University of York
Farajollah (Fred) completed his PhD in Computer Science at Ulster University in 2024, where his research focused on multi-objective evolutionary algorithms through the integration of reinforcement learning and hybrid structures to enhance optimization processes. This expertise is further complemented by…
Yinghao Cheng
Research Fellow
Queen’s University Belfast
Yinghao is set to graduate with a PhD from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in early 2025. In the PhD study, he has been focusing on applying or designing novel AI models that fuse knowledge and mechanisms for complex problems…