Yuanbo Nie

Member of the Future Mobility Grand Challenge Research Committee

Yuanbo Nie is a Lecturer in Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology, an MSc in Advanced Computational Methods from Imperial College London, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics from Imperial College London, awarded in 2021.

Yuanbo’s previous roles include working at the Institute of System Dynamics and Control at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) between 2012 and 2013, and serving as a post-doctoral research associate at the Rolls-Royce Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering University Technology Centre from 2021 to 2022.

His research focuses on developing efficient and reliable numerical methods for solving dynamic optimization problems, applying these methods to nonlinear model predictive control, and exploring their applications in aerospace engineering.