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Schemes for Engineers in Research and Development

Award Holders

2008 – 2009

Round 1

The deadline for the first round of applications was 30th June, 2008.

The award holders, the distinguished visitors and their main areas of collaboration are:

Dr A J Adeloye – Heriot-Watt University
Professor C S P Ojha – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, INDIA
Water resources management under climate and environmental change for poverty alleviation in India.

Professor H Barringer – The University of Manchester
Dr Klaus Havelund – California Institute of Technology, USA
Monitoring and repair in complex software systems.

Professor T Benson – The University of Nottingham
Professor Alexander I Nosich – National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, UKRAINE
Mathematical and numerical modeling of thin semiconductor microcavity lasers of arbitrary in-plane cavity shape.

Dr E Brousseau – Cardiff University
Professor Sergej Fatikow – University of Oldenburg, GERMANY
Atomic Force Microscopy-based nanofabrication.

Dr V Diaz – University College London
Professor Jacques Lefevre – Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
A systems approach to a minimal model of the left ventricle coupling electrical, biochemical, mechanical and hydraulic aspects of cardiac dynamics.

Dr K Fobelets – Imperial College London
Dr Sergey Rumyantsev – Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RUSSIA
Low frequency noise measurements.

Professor I Guz – University of Aberdeen
Professor Wolfgang H Muller – Technische Universitat Berlin, GERMANY
3-D multi-scale hierarchical modeling of materials with pronounced internal nano-heterogeneities.

Professor B Hon – University of Liverpool
Professor Takahisa Masuzawa – University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Micro-manufacturing and micro-Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM).

Dr E Kashefi – University of Edinburgh
Professor Yuan Feng – Tsinghua University, CHINA
Automated model checker for quantum protocol.

Dr V Lazarov –University of Oxford
Professor Michael Weinert – University of Wiskonsin - Milwaukee, USA
New computer modeling codes for the magnetic films and their interfaces.

Professor P M Ligrani – University of Oxford
Professor Mounir Ibrahim – Cleveland State University, USA
Cooling systems in gas turbines.

Professor D J Mapps – University of Plymouth
Dr Oleksandr Tovstolytkin – Research Institute of Magnetism, UKRAINE
Magnetotunable nanostructures with a negative refractive index in the millimeter and submillimeter wavebands.

Professor C McMahon – University of Bath
Professor Christiaan J J Paredis – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Uncertainty in engineering design and information management.

Dr L Mihaylova – Lancaster University
Professor Rene Boel –Universiteit Gent, BELGIUM
Nonlinear estimation of large-scale road traffic systems.

Dr P R Palmer– University of Cambridge
Professor Qirong Jiang – Tsinghua University, CHINA
Large-scale Static Compensator (STATCOM) based on Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) series connection.

Dr I Potapov – University of Liverpool
Professor Oscar H Ibarra – University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Design of swarm robotic systems and predictability of complex models.

Professor J Wang –University of Kent
Professor Zhenhui Tan – Beijing Jiaotong University, CHINA
Key technologies in broadband wireless communications.

Professor B L W Wong – Middlesex University
Professor Penelope Sanderson – The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Collaborative Exploratory Sequential Data Analysis (ESDA).

Round 2

The deadline for the second round of applications was 31st October 2008.

The award holders, the distinguished visitors and their main areas of collaboration are:

Dr John Batchelor – University of Kent
Professor Vijay Bhargava – University of British Columbia, CANADA
Cognitive radio-based distributed antenna systems.

Dr Pei-Jung Chung – The University of Edinburgh
Professor Kon Max Wong – McMaster University, CANADA
Wireless communications and signal processing: Space-time block codes for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communications.

Professor Stuart Lyon – The University of Manchester
Dr Ivan Cole – The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, AUSTRALIA
Atmospheric corrosion: The performance of light alloys and multi-scale modelling.

Dr E Mastorakos– University of Cambridge
Professor Robert William Bilger – The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Turbulent spray combustion. Mixing and chemical reactions, including aerosol formation, in aircraft exhaust plumes.

Dr Michael S Packianather– Cardiff University
Professor Mo Jamshidi – University of Texas, USA
Soft computing, Artificial Intelligence and Innovative Production Machines and Systems (I*PROMS).

Professor Andrea Schäfer– The University of Edinburgh
Professor Menachem Elimelech– Yale University, USA
Nanoparticles and Micropollutants.

Dr Flor R. Siperstein- The University of Manchester
(with Dr Eric Muller - Imperial College and Dr Henry Bock- Heriot Watt University)
Professor Keith Gubbins – North Carolina State University, USA
Modelling the behaviour of confined fluids with applications for gas separation and materials characterisation.

Dr Jeff Yan– Newcastle University
Dr Roy Maxion– Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Research methods for experimental computer science

2007 – 2008

Round 1

The deadline for the first round of applications was 30th June, 2007.

The award holders, the distinguished visitors and their main areas of collaboration are:

Professor Wuqiang Yang – University of Manchester
Professor Markus Zahn – from MIT, USA
Ferrofluid dynamics and dielectrometry

Dr Albert Guillen i Fabregas – University of Cambridge
Professor Ezio Biglieri – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SPAIN
Efficient and low-complexity encoding and decoding structures for reliable communication over wireless channels

Dr Hassan Nouri – University of the West of England
Dr Akihiro Ametani – Doshisha University, JAPAN
EMC disturbance in the power industry

Dr Yun Bai – Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Changhui Yang – Chongqinq University, CHINA
Neutral salts activated slag/PFA for waste immobilisation

Dr D Ian Wilson - University of Cambridge
Professor A Paul Watkinson – University of British Columbia, CANADA
Crude oil heat exchanger fouling

Professor Izzat Darwazeh – University College London
Professor Tak-Shing Peter Yum – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, CHINA
RFID, sensor networks and wireless positioning technologies

Dr Zoran Cvetkovic – King’s College London
Professor Alon Orlitsky – University of California San Diego, USA
Human speech recognition and its relevance to automatic speech recognition

Dr Stuart Robson – University College London
Jean- Angelo Beraldin – National Research Council of Canada, CANADA
Optical 3D measuring systems

Professor Vladimir Nikora – University of Aberdeen
Professor Stephen R McLean – University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Benthic boundary layers, sediment transport, coastal and deep-sea hydrodynamics

Professor Simone Hochgreb - University of Cambridge
Dr Robert S Barlow – Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Measurement and computation of stratified flames.

Professor John Burland – Imperial College
Professor Sam Frydman – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL
The mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. Site effect during strong earthquakes

Professor Sarah Spurgeon – University of Leicester
Professor Yuri B Shtessel – The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
HOSM observers for state estimation and input reconstruction in non-linear systems with unstable zero dynamics and HOSM-based output tracking in nonlinear non-minimum phase causal systems

Dr W F Deans and Professor S R Reid – University of Aberdeen
Dr Debasish Roy – Indian Institute of Science, INDIA
The pipe-on-pipe impact. A novel formulation for wrinkled membranes and applications to biological tissues

Professor Robert SH Istepanian – Kingston University
Professor Aura Ganz – University of Massachusetts, USA
4G based wireless network systems and architectures for NHS services and advanced mobile healthcare applications

Dr J Yang – University of Birmingham
Dr Yiwang Bao – China Building Materials Academy, CHINA
Reliability of curtain walls and glass walls. A novel technique of non-destructive assessment for glass/curtain walls

Dr Kamelia Boodhoo – University of Newcastle
Professor Yusuf Christi – Massey University, NEW ZEALAND
A novel centrifugal field bioreactor for application to fermentation and enzymatic processes. The application of ultrasonic energy for the enhancement of productivity in fermentations and other biotransformations

Dr Matthew Coop – Imperial College
Dr Jonathan Fannin – University of British Columbia, CANADA
Laboratory characterisation of silts and advanced geophysical testing to discern the fabric of these soils

Round 2

The deadline for the second round of applications was 31 October, 2007.

The award holders, the distinguished visitors and their main areas of collaboration are:

Professor Janice Barton – The University of Southampton
Professor Ole Thybo Thomsen – Aalborg University, DENMARK
Mechanical and thermal analysis of composite and sandwich structures.

Professor Marios K Chryssanthoupoulos – University of Surrey
Professor Dan M Frangopol – Lehigh University, USA
The integration of structural health monitoring with risk-based performance. The fatigue and fracture behaviour of metallic highways bridges.

Dr Slobodan Djordjevic – University of Exeter
Professor Erik Pasche – Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Development of hydrodynamic models for fluvial and pluvial floods.

Dr R W Field – University of Oxford
Professor Anthony Gordon Fane – University of New South Wales, Australia
Water reclamation, membrane bioreactors and liquid wastes. Water and wastewater technologies in response to climate change.

Professor David Graham – Newcastle University
Professor Erik S Van Vleck – University of Kansas, USA
Application of basic mathematical approaches to understanding the dynamics of biological nitrification and microbial processes in process engineering and other applications.

Professor Bernard Hon – University of Liverpool
Professor Winston A Knight – University of Rhode Island, USA
Design for Manufacture and Assembly and Design for Environment.

Dr Julian R Jones – Imperial College London
Dr Sudipta Seal – University of Central Florida, USA
New materials for bone regeneration: The use of NanoCeria as a drug delivery device and a biosensor.

Professor Haroun Mahgerefteh – University College London
Professor Yuri Rykov – Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
CFD model for predicting outflow following the rupture of pressurised hydrocarbon pipelines.

Professor Stephen Marshall – University of Strathclyde
Professor Edward R Dougherty – Texas A&M University, USA
The inference of gene regulatory networks from genomic data and the application of automatic control theory to design optimal intervention strategies for the avoidance of disease.

Dr Max Migliorato – University of Manchester
Professor Francois Peeters – University of Antwerp (CGB), Belgium
The electrical, magnetic and optical properties of nanostructures.

Dr Pagona Papakonstantinou – University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Dr Li-Chyong Chen – National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Carbon-based Nanomaterials and their integration with electrochemical devices.

The deadline for the next round of applications is 30 June, 2009.

Dr Imren Markes
Manager – Industrial Secondments and Visiting Fellowships

 
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