Schemes for Engineers in Research and Development

Distinguished Visiting Fellowship

Award Holders

2012 – 2013

Round 2

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

Dr Leroy Gardner – Imperial College London
Prof Xiao-Ling Zhao – Monash University, Australia
Stainless steel and high strength steel subject to impact and blast loading

Professor Igor Guz – University of Aberdeen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Reinhold Kienzler – University of Bremen, Germany
Consistent theories for nanoreinforced anisotropic plates and shells

Dr Anthony Kenyon – UCL
Professor Enrique Miranda – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Resistive switching in silicon-rich oxide films for future memory devices

Dr Farbod Khoshnoud – University of Hertfordshire
Professor Clarence De Silva – University of British Columbia, Canada
Energy Harvesting and Biologically Inspired Design of Dynamic Systems

Professor Konstantinos Kontis – University of Manchester
Professor Subrata Roy – University of Florida, USA
Joint studies on plasma flow technologies for low speed separation control and drag reduction

Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos – University of Cambridge
Professor Clinton Groth – University of Toronto, Canada
Development of Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) techniques for gas turbine combustion simulations

Professor Geyong Min – University of Bradford
Professor Albert Y Zomaya – University of Sydney, Australia
Performance Modelling and Optimization of Interconnection Networks in Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems

Dr Dmitry Nerukh – Aston University
Professor Makoto Taiji – RIKEN, Japan
High performance special purpose computers for scientific simulations: crossing the boundaries between atomistic and continuum representation of liquid systems

Professor Perumal Nithiarasu – Swansea University
Professor J N Reddy – Texas A&M University, USA
Issues in multiscale modelling of bioreactor and biosystems

Professor Sergei Turitsyn – Aston University
Professor Leonid A Melnikov – State Technical University, Russia
A new high-precision rotating sensing technology based on ultra-long ring-cavity fibre laser

Professor Jiangzhou Wang – University of Kent
Professor Jing Wang – Tsinghua University, China
Present and future in wireless mobile communications in China

Professor Alexander L Wolf – Imperial College London
Professor Hai Zhuge – Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Measurability of Cyber-Physical-Socio Systems

Dr Qing-Chang Zhong – University of Sheffield
Professor Miroslav Krstic – University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA
Robust control of systems with delays and control applications in energy systems

Professor Zi-Qiang Zhu – University of Sheffield
Professor Thomas Jahns – University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Novel Permanent Magnet Machines and Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles (Ev/Hev)

Round 1

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

Prof Simon Blackmore – Harper Adams University College
Prof Noboru Noguchi – Hokkaido University, Japan
Development of 3rd generation of agricultural robots

Prof Joao Cabral – Imperial College
Dr Jack Douglas – National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Engineering polymer and nanocomposite glasses

Dr Isaac Chang – University of Birmingham
Prof Jianzhong Jiang – Zhejiang University, China
Bulk Metallic Glasses: A new class of tooling material for micro and nanofabrication applications

Dr Philip Davies – Aston University
Dr Sadhan Kumar Ghosh – Javadpur University, India
Energy receovery from municipal solid waste

Dr Karl Dearn – University of Birmingham
Prof Xianguo Hu – Hefei University Of Technology, China
Tribological analysis of fuel quality and the effect on fuel injection equipment

Prof Edwin Hancock - University of York
Professor Horst Bunke - University of Bern, Switzerland
Scaling Structural Pattern Recognition to the Complex Network Domain

Prof Ross King- University of Manchester
Prof Ashwin Srinivasan – South Asia University, India
Improved drug design methods for neglected tropical diseases

Prof Kin Leung - Imperial College
Prof Vincent Poor - Princeton University, USA
Security and Privacy in wireless networking

Dr Georges Limbert - University of Southampton
Prof Amit Gefen - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Multiphysics modelling of skin microclimate in relation to pressure ulcers

Prof Dimitrios Nikolopoulos - Queen's University Belfast
Prof Nikos Chrisochoides - Old Dominion University, USA
Exascale Mesh Generation Runtime Systems for Medical Imaging

Prof Li Ran - University of Warwick
Prof James Kirtley - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Design and Operation of Future Electrical Power Systems

Prof Sarah Spurgeon - University of Kent
Prof Bijnan Bandyopadhyay - Indian Institute of Technology, India
Robust finite time control of autonomous systems

Dr Junwang Tang - University College London
Dr Michael Hoffmann - California Institute of Technology, USA
Solar fuel synthesis

Dr Haitao Ye - Aston University
Prof Jun Sun - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Diamond strain sensors for harsh, high temperature environments

Dr Huiling Zhu - University of Kent
Prof Aiqun Hu - Southeast University, China
Advances in Information Security for Broadband Mobile Communication

2011 – 2012

Round 2

The deadline for the first round of applications was 30 September 2011.

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

Professor Molly Stevens – Imperial College London
Professor Irene Yarovsky – RMIT University, Australia
Engineering nanomaterials for biomedical applications: exploring the role of protein-surface interactions

Dr Nathan Gomes – University of Kent
Professor Marco Chiani – University of Bologna, Italy
Novel MIMO approaches in broadband communications systems

Professor Alister Burr – University of York
Professor Tadashi Matsumto – Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Application of distributed source coding and iterative methods in wireless network cooperation and wireless network coding

Professor Wayne Luk – Imperial College London
Professor Jason Cong – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Domain-specific computing for healthcare applications

Dr Chika Udeaja – Northumbria University
Professor Chimay Anumba – Pennsylvania State University, USA
Capture and reuse of knowledge on Energy efficient building project

Round 1

The deadline for the first round of applications was 31 July 2011.

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

Dr Peter Andras (Newcastle University)
Dr Andrian Marcus (Wayne State University, USA)
Application of network analysis methods to software analysis

Professor Trevor Benson (University of Nottingham)
Professor Alexander Nerukh (Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine)
The interaction of electromagnetic airy pulses with medium heterogeneities

Professor H K D H Bhadeshia (Cambridge University)
Professor T DebRoy (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mitigating uncertainties in the phenomenological modelling of friction stir welding

Dr Samuel Bigot (Cardiff University)
Professor Ian Witten (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Data mining and its application in innovative manufacturing

Professor A V Bridgewater (Aston University)
Professor Victor da Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Catalytic pyrolysis)

Professor Robert A Brown and Dr Jie Huang (University College London)
Professor Zhong Wei Gu (Sichuan University, China)
Tissue engineering; drug/gene delivery for the healthcare in the 21st century

Professor David Budgen (Durham University)
Dr Shari Lawrence Pfleeger (Dartmouth College, USA)
Dissemination of technological innovations: Evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) and security of software systems

Professor Peter Davies (The University of Dundee)
Dr Janek Laanearu (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Modelling buoyancy-driven exchange flows in wide estuaries and fjords

Dr Guangtao Fu (University of Exeter)
Professor Pradeep Mujumdar (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Resilient urban water systems: New impact and uncertainty methods

Dr Sotos Generalis (Aston University)
Professor Kaoru Fujimura (Tottori University, Japan)
Concurrent application of weakly and fully non-linear techniques in the dynamics of shear flow as applied to the novel problem of transition in ventilated double glazing

Professor Yannis Hardalupas (Imperial College London)
Professor Vincent McDonell (University of California, USA)
Laser diagnostics for atomization and combustion of liquid fuels

Dr Gareth Howells (University of Kent)
Professor Xiuying Cao (Southeast University, National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, China)
Cryptography and encryption communication

Dr S Lambotharan (Loughborough University)
Professor Sumit Roy (University of Washington Seattle, USA)
Cognitive radio networks

Dr Kang Li (Queen’s University Belfast)
Professor Shaoyuan Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Advanced process control techniques for sustainable development for energy intensive processes

Dr Maozhen Li (Brunel University)
Professor Junyong Liu (Sichuan University, China)
Sustainable power systems: Smart electric power grid

Dr Georges Limbert (University of Southampton)
Dr Thomas Franz (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Cardiovascular biomechanics

Professor Kamran Nikbin (Imperial College London)
Professor Yun-Jae Kim (Korea University, South Korea)
Modelling of long-term creep crack growth in high temperature components using finite element simulations

Dr Geoffrey T Parks (University of Cambridge)
Professor Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Post-analysis and decision-making in multi-objective design optimisation using parallel coordinates

Dr Themis Prodromakis (Imperial College London)
Professor Leon O Chua (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Circuit design with non-linear cells: Memristive devices

Dr Shengfeng Qin (Brunel University)
Professor Guofu Ding (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
A multidimensional product data model for virtual prototyping families that integrates information and models from different engineering domains

Professor Sergei Sazhin (University of Brighton)
Professor Alexander N Osiptsov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
Instabilities of multi-phase flows

Professor Gui Yun Tian (Newcastle University)
Dr Raimond Grimberg (National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics, Romania)
Nondestructive evaluation using evanescent waves and metamaterials

Professor Sergei Turitsyn (Aston University)
Professor David N Nikogosyan (University College Cork, Ireland)
A new sensing technology based on multiple identical Bragg grating inscription in multi-core fibres

David Whalley (Loughborough University)
Professor James Morris (Portland State University, USA)
Novel isotropically conductive adhesives

Dr Chuan-Yu Wu (University of Birmingham)
Professor Yanlin Song (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Nano-printing and fabrication patterned crystals

Professor Yongbing Xu (The University of York)
Professor Rong Zhang (Nanjing University, China)
Nano spintronics integrating photonics

Dr Daniil Yurchenko (Heriot-Watt University)
Professor Alexander S Bratus (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
Application of the control theory to the problem of Leukemia therapy

2010 – 2011

Round 2

The deadline for the second round of applications was 31st of October 2010.

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

Prof Gehan Amaratunga – University of Cambridge
Prof Jerome Meisel – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle (PHEV) powertrains

Dr Apostolos Antonacopoulos – The University of Salford
Dr David S Doermann – University of Maryland, USA
Practical systems for mass-digitisation using cloud computing

Prof Ingemar J Cox – University College London
Prof C Lee Giles – Pennsylvania State University, USA
Next-generation web search that exploits information present on social networks

Prof Ahmed Elsheikh – University of Liverpool
Dr Philippe Buchler – University of Bern, SWITZERLAND
Ocular biomechanics: Constitutive modelling of behaviour of soft biological tissue

Prof C Ross Ethier – Imperial College London
Prof Don P Giddens – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Bioengineering: Hemodynamics and arterial diseases

Prof Richard Hogg – University of Sheffield
Prof Osamu Wada – Kobe University, JAPAN
All-optical signal processing

Dr Tomasz Liskiewicz – University of Leeds
Prof Bogdan Wendler – Lodz Technical University, POLAND
Surface engineering: PVD coatings

Prof Omar K Matar – Imperial College London
Prof Hsueh-Chia Chang – University of Notre Dame, USA
Biomicrofluidics

Dr Stephen Neethling – Imperial College London
Dr Andrew Kraynik – Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Simulating wet foams containing particles and their sedimentation in a flowing foam

Dr Josselin Noirel – The University of Sheffield
Prof Kenneth Reardon – Colorado State University, USA
Bioenergy: Algal biofuels

Dr Manuel Oriol – University of York
Dr Stephane Ducasse – INRIA Lille Nord Europe – Laboratory LIFL of Universite de Lille, FRANCE
Impact of reengineering programs on the ease of obtaining MCDC through random testing

Dr Rafael Palacios – Imperial College London
Prof Moti Karpel – Technion –Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL
Aeroelastic analysis methodology to introduce the effects of large wing deformations into the design of load control systems on very flexible (e.g. solar-powered) air vehicles

Dr Sameer Rahatekar – University of Bristol
Prof S Gopalakrishnan – Indian Institute of Science, INDIA
Structural health monitoring of composite materials using Carbon nanotube films

Prof Stuart Robson – University College London
Prof Mark R Shortis – RMIT University, AUSTRALIA
Emerging optical measurement needs driven by new aerospace manufacturing technologies

Dr Gavin Tabor – University of Exeter
Prof Eric George Paterson – Pennsylvania State University, USA
Tidal energy device simulation and image-based meshing

Dr Richard I Todd – University of Oxford
Dr Goffredo de Portu – National Research Council, ITALY
Relationship between wear resistance and residual stress in ceramics and composites

Prof Jiangzhou Wang – University of Kent
Prof Fumiyuki Adachi – Tohoku University, JAPAN
Distributed antenna systems for future mobile communications

Prof Keith Worden – University of Sheffield
Prof Chuck Farrar – Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Structural health monitoring

Dr Chuan-Yu Wu – University of Birmingham
Prof Aibing Yu – University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Development and application of coupled discrete element methods and computational fluid dynamics (DEM/CFD) for complex multi-phase flows

Prof Jing Tang Xing – University of Southampton
Prof Weikang Jiang – Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CHINA
Analysis and reduction of underwater noises caused by marine structures

Round 1

The deadline for the first round of applications was 31st May, 2010.

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

Prof Michael R Belmont – University of Exeter
Prof George Weiss – Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL
Power quality control systems for grid integration of renewable wave energy capture systems

Prof Said Boussakta – Newcastle University
Prof Abbas Jamalipour –University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Biologically-inspired technologies towards the evolution of mobile communication networks

Assoc Prof Yunfei Chen – University of Warwick
Prof Norman C Beaulieu –University of Alberta, CANADA
Cognitive radio

Dr Jinsheng Kang – Brunel University
Prof John D Rasmussen – Aalborg University, DENMARK
Cutting edge technology in computational biomechanics

Dr Brad Karp – University College London
Prof Michael Mitzenmacher – Harvard University, USA
Optimisation of antenna beam patterns to improve capacity in wireless networks, and applications of coding to wireless networking

Dr Eric Mackay – Heriot-Watt University
Emeritus Prof Terje Ostvold – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY
Prediction of mineral scale precipitation under oilfield conditions. Reactive transport simulation for oilfield applications

Dr Gopal Madabhushi – University of Cambridge
Prof Bruce Kutter – University of California, USA
Earthquake geotechnical engineering

Prof Athanasios Mantalaris – Imperial College London
Prof Peter I Lelkes – Drexel University, USA
Lung tissue engineering

Prof Alan Mycroft – University of Cambridge
Prof R K Shyamasundar – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, INDIA
Programming paradigms and programming languages. Cyber Security; Embedded Systems; IT applications

Dr Linda Newnes – University of Bath
Prof Peter Sandborn –University of Maryland, USA
Cost management (Management of the extended supply chain and problems encountered for long life systems such as defence and aerospace products)

Dr Tony Parry – University of Nottingham
Prof Susan Tighe – University of Waterloo, CANADA
Novel transport infrastructure asset management tools

Dr Mathini Sellathurai – Queen’s University Belfast
Prof Simon H Haykin – McMaster University, CANADA
Cognitive dynamic systems including radio communications, cognitive radar and cognitive energy systems

Professor Constantinos Soutis – The University of Sheffield
Prof Victor Giurgiutiu – University of South Carolina, USA
Structural health monitoring with piezoelectric wafer active sensors

Professor Gui Yun Tian – University of Newcastle
Prof Sergey Y Yurish – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, SPAIN
Smart sensor systems integration

Professor Hong Wang – The University of Manchester
Prof Tianyou Chai – Northeastern University, CHINA
Innovative automation technologies

Professor Zidong Wang – Brunel University
Prof James Lam – University of Hong Kong, CHINA
Comprehensive analysis and design for wireless networked control systems

Dr Stephan Weiss – University of Strathclyde
Prof Aggr Andrea Tonello – Universita’ di Udine, ITALY
Power line communications on filter bank based multicarrier modulation, synchronisation and equalisation and smart grid technologies

Dr Dagou Zeze – Durham University
Prof Vladimir Dubrovskii – St Petersburg Academic University (and IOFFE Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), RUSSIA
Fabrication of functional nanowire probes for application in nanoelectronics and at the biological and physical sciences interface

Dr Jovisa Zunic– University of Exeter
Prof Reinhard Klette – The University of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Computer vision and image processing tools in a spectra of applications including Environment Perception and Driver Assistance

2009 – 2010

Round 2

The deadline for the second round of applications was 31st October, 2009.

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

Dr Ana Cavalcanti – University of York
Prof Marie-Claude Gaudel – Université de Paris-Sud 11, FRANCE
Checking models, proving programs, and testing systems

Prof T W Clyne – University of Cambridge
Prof Ke Lu – Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
Nanostructured materials (metals and alloys). Amorphous alloys

Dr P S Fennell– Imperial College London and Dr J S Dennis– University of Cambridge
Prof E J Anthony – CANMET Energy Technology Centre, Natural Resources, CANADA
Energy and CO2 capture

Dr Patrick J Foster – University of Exeter, Camborne School of Mines
Prof Jim Joy – University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Assessing and improving the safety culture maturity at mines and quarries

Dr Tim Kelly – University of York
Prof John C Knight – University of Virginia, USA
Assurance based development. Safety argument patterns

Dr Furong Li – University of Bath
Prof Xifan Wang – Xi’an Jiaotong University, CHINA
Renewable Energy: The scale, issues and solutions with mega wind power generation and transmission

Prof Wayne Luk– Imperial College London
Prof Ruby B Lee – Princeton University, USA
Security-aware systems

Prof R Ajit Shenoi – University of Southampton
Prof Robert F Beck – University of Michigan, USA
Nonlinear wave loads and manoeuvering in a seaway

Prof J Christos Vassilicos and Dr B van Wachem, Prof J Gibbon and Prof X Wu – Imperial College London
Prof William K George – Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN
The role of initial and upstream conditions in turbulence

Prof Fu-Chun Zheng– The University of Reading
Prof Ping Li – City University of Hong Kong, CHINA
Wireless Communications: Interleave division multiple access (IDMA) and distributed MIMI systems

Prof Zi-Qiang Zhu – University of Sheffield
Prof Thomas Anthony Lipo – University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Wind power direct drive permanent magnet generation systems

Round 1

The deadline for the first round of applications was 30th June, 2009.

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

Prof Khalid Al-Begain– University of Glamorgan
Prof Alexander Dudin– Belarusian State University, BELARUS
Survivability Modelling and Quantification

Dr M Sergio Campobasso – University of Glasgow
Prof Charles L M Merkle – Purdue University, USA
Novel CFD technologies for aeromechanical design

Dr Baixin Chen – Heriot-Watt University
Dr Peter G Brewer– Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA
CO2 capture and storage and environmental sciences

Prof Jan Cilliers - Imperial College and Dr Neil Rowson - University of Birmingham
Prof James Andrew Finch – McGill University, CANADA
The motion of hydrophobic and hydrophilic particles in froths

Prof Stefan Dimov – Cardiff University
Prof Kornel F Ehmann – Northwestern University, USA
Micro and nano manufacturing

Dr Ian Eames – University College London
Dr Jan-Bert Flor – Laboratoire des Écoulements Geophysiques et Industrielles (LEGI), FRANCE
Fluid mechanics and modelling of natural ventilation and air quality in buildings

Prof Jim Hall – Newcastle University
Prof Yakov Ben-Haim – Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL
Info-gap theory and its applications. Uncertainty representation and decision making in engineering systems

Richard Jones – University of Kent
Prof J Eliot B Moss – University of Massachusetts, USA
Concurrency and transactional theory

Dr Harshinie Karunarathna – University of Glasgow
Prof Dr Willi H Hager – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Tsunami and impulse wave run-up on the shoreline and their potential for damage

Dr Kang Li – Queen’s University Belfast
Prof Shiji Song – Tsinghua University, CHINA
Computational intelligence in control for sustainable development

Dr A Nallanathan – King’s College London
Associate Prof Moe Win – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ultra-wideband wireless communications

Prof Maria Petrou – Imperial College London
Prof Aggelos K Katsaggelos – Northwestern University, USA
Computer vision and smart environments

Dr Aldo Rona – The University of Leicester
Prof Alexander Ramm – Kansas State University, USA
Wave refraction through a medium with small embedded particles for the design of a new class of acoustic materials

Prof Sarah Spurgeon – University of Kent
Prof Bijnan Bandyopadhyay – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA
Nonlinear sliding surface design for enhanced engineering system performance and the development of fast output sample based control implementations

Prof Victor Starov – Loughborough University
Prof Volodymyr I Kovalchuk – National Academy of Sciences, UKRAINE
Formation of thin nano-structured films/coatings during wetting/dewetting processes

Dr Matthew Turner– The University of Leicester
Dr Sophie Tarbouriech – LAAS-CNRS (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes ), FRANCE
Control of systems subject to sensor saturation

Prof Song Y Yan – University of Bedfordshire
Prof Ronald Rivest – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Fuzzy characterization of feasible and infeasible computations in cryptography

Dr Paul Young – University of Kent
Prof Ke Gong – Tianjin University, CHINA
Mini antenna design and channel measurements in satellite and mobile communications

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 dynamicss.

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 Ibarraa – 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 systemss.

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 characterisationn.

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 Wilsonn - 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 McLeann – 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 Reidd – 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 soilss

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 Marshalll – 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.

 

 

Updated April 2013

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