Visakan Kadirkamanathan

Member of the Management Board

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.

His research is focussed on the areas of system identification, signal processing and control with applications that span from engineering in aerospace and manufacturing sectors to life science and healthcare. His research received the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize for best paper in Applied Sciences and has received funding from the UK research sponsors, the EPSRC, BBSRC, NERC, MRC and the InnovateUK for a number of projects. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Systems Science and has served as a General Chair of national and international conferences.