Matt Greenhalgh is Product Development Manager at Siemens Motion Control. With nearly 15 years of experience in the field of drives and controls, he is dedicated to driving new developments at Siemens Motion Control. His background in power electronics has been instrumental in the development of Siemens SINAMICS G series industrial drives.
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Bilal A. Mubdir is a Lecturer in Electrical and Control Engineering at Sulaimani Polytechnic University and a PhD researcher in Aerospace Control Engineering at the University of Leicester. His doctoral work focuses on energy optimization and control strategies for rotary-wing UAVs, emphasizing efficient trajectory generation and advanced control techniques.
William Heath is Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangor University and Chair of the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council. He was previously Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. He received his BA and MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and his MSc and PhD in Systems and Control from UMIST.
Hector Figueiredo is a Chartered Engineer and Capability Lead at QinetiQ specialising in Autonomous Systems. He leads research teams in diverse autonomy related technologies being developed both in-house and externally which includes application of Systems Engineering principles to underpin research, development and exploitation. Commendations for his work have been received from DSTL, QinetiQ Innovation award and whilst at BAE Systems: Chairman’s Awards for Innovation, Silver and Bronze awards.
Relevant Technical expertise includes Autonomous systems, Crewed-Uncrewed teaming, Human autonomy teaming, aircraft design and performance.
At QinetiQ he has recently been the Task Lead on a Human Autonomy Teaming for Adaptive Systems project and previously, Solution architect and Technical oversight on the Crewed – Uncrewed Teaming project. A key research area is the evaluation and assurance of Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) enable autonomy functionality for next generation uncrewed systems. Hector also sits on the Trusted Autonomous Systems Steering Group, several academic Steering Groups developing ML/AI enabled autonomy technologies and is leading the QinetiQ project on assurance of ML/AI systems.
Kate Kelly is the Research Programme Manager for the Automatic Control Engineering Network.
Kate has over 10 years of research project management experience and has a proven track record of successfully planning, managing, and delivering transdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder programs funded by UKRI within the Higher Education sector. She is deeply committed to fostering collaborative partnerships and driving impactful, positive change for both people and the planet. Her work spans a diverse range of stakeholders, including the private sector, government and policy organizations, NGOs, and local community groups, both nationally and internationally.
Dr Rory Adams leads the UK Customer Success Engineering team at MathWorks, where he partners with academics enabling them to achieve success their research and teaching goals, by taking advantage of the full capabilities of MATLAB and Simulink.
Wasif Naeem BEng, MSc, PhD is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at QUB and is also a member of the Centres for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems and Energy, Power and Intelligent Control. His doctoral and postdoctoral research were both part of EPSRC-funded academia-industry collaborative projects to develop autonomous marine vehicles.
Min Pan is a Professor and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She joined the department as a Lecturer in 2016. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Bath in June 2012 for research into fluid-borne noise control in digital hydraulic systems. After graduation, she continued at Bath as a postdoctoral researcher working on the efficient fluid power control project in the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control. She worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2014 and 2015. Prof Pan has been awarded prestigious Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering (2019-2021), The Leverhulme Trust (2020-2022) and the UKRI.
An aerospace engineer by training, after leaving the industry, Giuliano’s interests grew in the broad area of control theory and complex systems. His current research aims at understanding complex dynamics at the interface between social and technical systems. These include the use of public services such as transportation or water systems, how these impact the demographic and the resilience of both the infrastructure and the community they serve.
Mien Van is a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast with longstanding experience in Robotics and Intelligent Control. Dr. Van has been PIs and Co-Is of many projects (~£1.5M in total) funded by the EPSRC, NERC, Royal Society, ONR Global, Innovate UK and Dstl/MOD to advance control theory, control engineering, and robotics technologies. He has published over 80 journal (first authors of over 40 journal papers) and conference articles, receiving citations over 3300 and a h-index of 31. He received 3 best paper awards.
Visakan is Director of the Rolls-Royce supported University Technology Centre in Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering and a Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a past Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at Sheffield and a past Chair of the UK Automatic Control Council (UKACC). His undergraduate and PhD degrees are from the University of Cambridge.
Karl Henrik is a fellow of IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer, Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor (rådsprofessor), IEEE Control Systems Society Vice President for Diversity, Outreach & Development, past President of the European Control Association, Member of the IFAC Council and past member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors (2009,2016-2018).