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Schemes for Engineers in Research and Development
Global Research Awards
Awardees
Professor Stuart Burgess (University of Bristol)
Biologically Inspired Mechanisms for Autonomous
Robotic Vehicles
Secondment to Liberty University, USA
Dr Alberto Castellazzi (University of Nottingham)
SiC-Based Electrical Power Conversion
Secondment to Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Ruchi Choudhary (Cambridge University)
Uncertainty Analysis of Building Simulation Models
at the City Scale
Secondment to Statistical and Applied Mathematical
Sciences Institute, USA
Dr Pier Dragotti (Imperial College London)
Sparse Sampling: Theory and Algorithms Secondment to
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Dr Philip
Harrison (University of Glasgow) Forming of Tailored
Thermoplastic Composites
Secondment to Institute of Mechanical Engineering
and Industrial Management, Portugal
Dr Tim McDonald (University College London)
TriSWACH Design and Hydrodynamics
Secondment to Center of Innovative Ship Design,
Cardock Division, US Naval Sea Systems Command
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Dr Khellil Sefiane (University of Edinburgh)
Energy Transport During Evaporation and Wetting
Phenonema: Use of Statistal Rate Theory (SRT) and
Adsorption x-Isotherm
Secondment to Toronto University, Canada
Dr Su Taylor (Queens University Belfast)
Structural Health Monitoring of FlexiArch Under
Seismic Loading Using Optical Sensors
Secondment to University of California, USA
Professor Fu Chen Zheng (University of Reading)
Relay Transmission in Cellular Networks: Its Impact
on Energy Efficiency
Secondment to Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Dr Hussain Al-Khalid (University of Liverpool)
‘Application of surface energy principles to
characterise asphalt cracking properties including
damage due to moisture ingress’
Secondment to Texas A&M, USA
Dr Andrew Adams (University of Reading)
’Privacy and Data Protection in the Global Village:
Anglo-Japanese and Euro-Asian Comparisons’
Secondment to Meiji University, Japan
Annual Research Forum Poster 2008
Dr Paola Amaldi-Trillo (Middlesex University)
’An Investigation into System Safety Defenses: The
Case of Air Traffic Management in the European Air
Space’
Secondment to Eurocontrol Experimental Centre,
France
Annual Research Forum Poster 2008
Professor Tim Baines (Cranfield University)
‘Organising for services growth and productivity
within Manufacturing’
Secondment to Caterpillar Inc., USA
Dr Russell
Beale (University of Birmingham)
‘Intelligent AIR - Intelligent Ambient Information
Representation: Managing Increasing Data’
Secondment to University of Cape Town, South Africa
Annual Research Forum Poster 2008
Innovation & Research Focus Article February 2010
Dr
Volfango Bertola (University of Edinburgh)
‘Experimental Investigation of Cryogenic 2-Phase
Flows’
Secondment to Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Dr Andrea Cardoni (University of Glasgow)
‘Vibration Behaviour of Plate Transducers for
Macrosonic Applications’
Secondment to Instituto de Acustica, Spain
Dr Alessandra Carriero (Imperial College London)
‘Fracture mechanics of brittle bones treated with
stem cells’
Secondment to University of California, Berkeley,
USA
Mr William Carson (Cambridge
University)
’Analysis, Design and Optimisation of Iterative
Detection and Decoding Systems’
Secondment to University of Porto, Portugal
Dr Alistair Clark (University of the West of England, Bristol)
‘Industrial Extensions to Production Planning and
Scheduling’
Secondment to University of São Paulo and
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Professor Nicholas Dodd (University of
Nottingham)
’Beach Engineering: Field Validation of a
Morphodynamical Stability Model’
Secondment to Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Dr Gwenaël Doërr (University College London)
’Interoperable Digital Rights Management’
Secondment to Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
Dr Venketesh Dubey (University of Bournemouth)
’Design of a Gravity Balancing Upper-Arm Orthosis
for Older People’
Secondment to University of Delaware, USA
Profile
Dr Ian Eames (University College London)
’The Effect of Phase Change on Dispersed Turbulent
Multiphase Flows National Technical’
Secondment to University of Athens, Greece
Annual Research Forum Poster 2007
Professor
William Easson (University of Edinburgh)
’Investigation of low-Reynolds number two-phase
particle-fluid modelling with particular reference
to cell migration in large arteries’
Secondment to University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Ahmed Elsheikh (University of Dundee)
’Corneal Biomechanics and their Effect on
Intra-Ocular Pressure Measurement’
Secondment to University of New South Wales,
Australia
Annual Research Forum Poster 2007
Dr Matt Folley (Queen’s University Belfast)
’An Investigation of Wave Powered Desalination’
Secondment to Instituto Technologico de Canarias,
Spain
Innovation & Research Focus Article February 2007
Dr Wolf-Gerrit Früh (Heriot-Watt University)
’Turbulence Modelling for Wind Turbines’
Secondment to University of Hanover, Germany
Annual Research Forum Poster 2007
Innovation & Research Focus Article May 2007
Dr Nuno Gil (University of Manchester)
‘The Effects of Private Equity Involvement in New
Infrastructure Development: Playing the UK
Experience against an International Setting’
Stanford University, USA
Innovation & Research Focus Article February 2009
Dr Jon
Gudnason (Imperial College London)
‘Speech Analysis for High Performance Phoneme
Recognition’
Secondment to Columbia University, USA
Dr Peter Hall (University of Bath)
‘Describing Dynamic Textures’
Secondment to University of Amsterdam, Holland
Annual Engineering Forum
Poster 2009
Profile
Dr Matthew Halsall (University of Manchester)
’Nitride Semiconductor Devices for THz electronics’
Secondment to University of California, USA
Profile
Professor William Harwin (University of Reading)
‘System identification of mechanical parameters in
the elbow and wrist as a measurement of neurological
and muscular skeletal recovery in stroke’
Secondment to University of New Brunswick, Canada
Howell Istance (De Montfort University)
‘Gaze and Gaming: enabling people with motor
disabilities to take part in online games and
communities’
Secondment to University of Tampere, Finland
Profile
Dr Dragan Jovcic (University of Aberdeen)
’Advanced Converter Systems for Tyristor-based
Multiterminal HVDC’
Secondment to McGill University, Canada
Profile
Dr Jinsheng Kang (Brunel University)
‘Life-Like Virtual Human and Crowds for Product and
Environmental Design’
Secondment to University of Pennsylvania, USA
Annual Engineering Forum
Poster 2009
Innovation & Research Focus Article November 2009
Annual Engineering Forum
Poster 2009
Hristo Kostov (Rinicom Plc.)
’Horizon: Investigation and Development of Advanced
Video Compression Technique for Airbourne Video
Surveillance’
Secondment to St Petersburg State University of
Aerospace Instrumentation, Russia
Dr Ian Leslie (University of
Leeds)
‘Edge Loading of Metal-on-Metal Hip Surface
Replacements’
Secondment to University of California, Los Angeles,
USA
Professor Chun-Qing Li (University of Greenwich)
’Development of Risk Assessment Models for Corrosion
Affected Reinforced Concrete Infrastructure’
Secondment to University of Newcastle, Australia
Darren Lumbroso (HR
Wallingford Ltd)
‘Research into the use of hydrological nowcasting
techniques to improve emergency response planning
and response to floods
Secondment to Laboratoire Central de Ponts Chaussèes,
France
Professor
Xiaoyu Luo (University of Glasgow)
’Developing a New Dynamic Model for Mitral Valves’
Secondment to New York University, USA
Annual Research Forum Poster 2008
Professor Sheila MacNeil (University of
Sheffield)
‘Development of international research networks in
surface engineering and computational modelling’
Secondment to Swinburne University, Australia, and
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Catherine Manders (University of Southampton)
’Combining Musculoskeletal and Finite Element
Analysis to Assess the Effects of Total Hip
Replacement on Hip Joint Biomechanics’
Secondment to Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Peter Matthews (University of Durham)
‘Agent Meta-Learning for Uncertain Domains’
Secondment to University of Amsterdam, Holland
Profile
Andrew McCalister (University of Cambridge)
‘Evolving Evaluation’
Secondment to heyZap, USA
Professor Jin Ooi (University
of Edinburgh)
’Applications of Discrete Element Modelling to
Industrial Handling of Particulate Solids’
Secondment to University of New South Wales,
Australia
Mr
Duncan Payne (University of Sheffield)
’Digitisation and 3D Modelling of Drosophila Sperm
Curves’
Secondment to Institut für System Dynamik,
Stuttgart, Germany
Mr Tuck Poon (BBC Research and
Development)
‘Developing a High Capacity MIMO System’
Secondment to Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Japan
Professor Mark Price (Queen’s University
Belfast)
‘Advanced Aircraft Design Methodologies’
Secondment to Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Annual Engineering Forum
Poster 2009
Dr Li Ran (Durham University)
’Investigating Flywheel Energy Storage of a Doubly
Fed Induction Machine Configuration’
Secondment to Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA
Dr Paolo Remagnino (Kingston University)
’Ambient Intelligence Methods and Human-Robot
Interaction’
Secondment to Saitama University and Toshiba Corp.
R&D, Japan
Dr Joseph Robson (University of Manchester)
’Exploiting Ultra-Light Magnesium Alloys in
Structural Applications’
Secondment to Saitama Auckland University of
Technology, New Zealand, and Deakin University,
Australia
dr mc
schraefel (University of Southampton)
’Supporting Exploratory Search via the Semantic Web’
Secondment to Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
University of Maryland and University of Texas, USA
Professor Stefaan Simons (University College
London)
‘Accelerating the Transition to a Low Carbon Future:
Open Innovation and Disruptive Technologies’
Secondment to University of Melbourne, Australia and
University of California, USA
Innovation & Research Focus Article May 2010
Dr Michael Smith (British
Energy)
‘Synthesing Residual Stress Measurements and
Modelling for Welds’
Secondment to Australian Nuclear Science and
Technology Organisation, Australia
Professor
Roger Smith (Loughborough University)
‘Modelling Sputter-Deposited Zirconia Coatings’
Secondment to Rossendorf Institute, Germany
Dr Mervyn Smyth (University of Ulster)
‘Solar Energy in the Wine Making Industry’
Secondment to Domaine Carneros, USA
Michael Strickland (University
of Southampton)
’Development of Kansas Knee Simulator Computational
Model’
Secondment to University of Kansas, USA
Dr Ben Thornber (Cranfield
University)
‘Development of Very High-Order Accurate ILES
Methods for Turbulent Lean Premixed Combustion’
Secondment to University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Gui Tian (Newcastle University)
‘Global research and robin tests on magnetic
non-destructive evaluation’
Secondment to Tsinghua University, China, Iowa State
University, USA and University Michigan State, USA
Professor Haifeng Wang (Queen’s University
Belfast)
’Laboratory Experiment of Renewable Generation and
Supply Network by FACTS Control’
Secondment to Wuhan University, China
Dr
Jennifer Williams (University of Edinburgh)
‘The Orientated Fabrication of Metal Organic
Framework Thin Films’
Secondment to University of Munich, Germany
Profile
Dr Joab
Winkler (University of Sheffield)
‘A New Method of Solving High Degree Polynomial
Equations that allows Design Freedom in Geometric
Modelling’
Secondment to City University of New York, USA
Dr Junjie Wu (Durham University)
‘Age and Vision: Combating Sight Loss’
Secondment to Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Texas A&M University, USA
Professor Song Yan (University of Bedfordshire)
‘Intractability Study of Number
Theoretic/Cryptographic Algorithms and Cryptanalysis
of RSA’
Secondment to Harvard University, USA
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