Mien Van

Co-Lead of the Early Career Researcher Group

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. He is an associate editor for several reputation journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Scientific Reports, and IJCAS (springer). He is currently leading a strong research team robotics and intelligent control with more than 10 members.

His research interests include robust control, intelligent control and its application for robotics for extreme environments.