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Mien Van – ECR Group Co-Lead

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.

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Visakan Kadirkamanathan – Management Board Member

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.

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Karl Henrik Johansson – Chair Advisory Board

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).

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Giuliano Punzo – Clean Growth Committee

Giuliano Punzo is a Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He earned his PhD at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and held postdoctoral appointments, at the University of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Sheffield.

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.

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Constantinos (Kostas) Theodoropoulos – Co-Chair Clean Growth

Constantinos (Kostas) is Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Systems Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering (CE).

He received his BSc in Mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and his MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. He then worked as a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University.

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Mehmet Mercangoz – Clean Growth Committee

Mehmet Mercangöz is the ABB Reader in Autonomous Industrial Systems within the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2007, focusing on distributed model predictive control and real-time optimization of process systems. Following his graduate studies, Mehmet joined ABB Corporate Research in Switzerland, where he held key positions, including Senior Principal Scientist, Group Leader for Control and Optimization, and Technology Manager for Artificial Intelligence.

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Seán McLoone – AI and Data Committee

Seán McLoone is Professor of Applied Computational Intelligence in the Energy, Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC) Research Centre within the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests are in computational intelligence techniques, machine learning and data analytics with applications in advanced manufacturing, robotics and power systems. His research has a strong application focus, with many projects undertaken in collaboration with industry in areas such as process monitoring, control, optimisation, time series prediction, and in-line sensor characterization.

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James Pickering – ECR Committee

James E. Pickering is a Lecturer in Control Engineering at Aston University, Birmingham, where he is part of the Department of Mechatronics Engineering. He pursued his PhD part-time while teaching control engineering at Coventry University, completing his doctorate as an external student at the University of Wolverhampton in 2020. In 2022, James was appointed to his current academic role at Aston University, Birmingham.

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Alessandra Parisio – Chair Clean Growth

Alessandra Parisio is a Professor of Control of Sustainable Energy Networks, in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at the University of Manchester, where she is PGT Director for the department. She has been principal or co-investigator on research projects supported by UKRI, European Commission, and industrial partners in the areas of building climate control and distributed optimisation and control for flexibility service and grid support provision, totalling nearly £7 million as University of Manchester share.

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Marcio Lacerda – EDI Committee

Marcio Lacerda is a Reader in Control Engineering and Cyber-Physical systems at London Metropolitan University. Before joining London Metropolitan, he was with the Federal University of São João del-Rei, Brazil (2016-2023). He held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at, the University of Minnesota, USA.

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Nabil Aouf – Chair AI and Data

Nabil Aouf obtained his PhD from McGill University in 2002, specializing in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He currently holds the prestigious position of Professor of Autonomous Systems and Machine Intelligence at City University of London.

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James Whidborne – AI and Data Committee

James Whidborne is Professor of Control Engineering in the Centre for Aeronautics at Cranfield University where he is Head of the Dynamics Simulation and Control Group. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of control systems, prior to joining Cranfield University in 2004 he was a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kings College London.

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