Leadership Team
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,
Allahyar Montazeri is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering at Lancaster University. Before this, he was appointed as Assistant Professor in Control and Electronics Engineering with the Engineering Department at Lancaster University.
Anton Selivanov is a Lecturer in Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He earned his PhD from St. Petersburg University, Russia, in 2014, followed by postdoctoral research positions at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Antonis Papachristodoulou is the Statutory Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Oxford. He was previously EPSRC Fellow and Director of the EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral training in Synthetic Biology. He obtained the MA/MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the
Asiya Khan is an Associate Professor of Multimedia Communication & Intelligent Control at the University of Plymouth and recently seconded to DSIT Science and Technology Fellowship (AI Risk Adviser). She received her BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from University of Glasgow, MSc in
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
Boli Chen is a Lecturer in Control Engineering at University College London, where he has been a faculty member since September 2019. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 2015 and continued his research there as a postdoctoral researcher until 2019.
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
Daniel Auger is Professor of Electrification, Modelling and Control at Cranfield University, where he is a member of the Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre. He completed his MEng(Hons) and his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Before taking up an academic appointment, he worked for BAE
Daniel Coca is Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems with over 25 years’ experience in the field of engineering and higher education. Before joining Newcastle as Head of School of Engineering, he was Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the
Eric Kerrigan is Professor of Control and Optimization at Imperial College London, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics.
Francesca Boem received the MSc degree (cum laude) in Management Engineering in 2009 and the PhD degree in Information Engineering in 2013, both from the University of Trieste, Italy. She was Post-Doc at the University of Trieste with the Machine Learning Group from 2013 to
Fulvio Forni is a Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he has been a faculty member since October 2015. He earned his PhD from the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ in 2010. Following his doctorate, he conducted postdoctoral research at the
Gianmario Rinaldi is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering (Education & Research) at the Department of Engineering in the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy. He is also the Faculty Advisor and the Academic Lead of the Formula Student Project. His research expertise is in control,
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,
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
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
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
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,
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
Kostas Margellos (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, in 2012. He spent 2013, 2014, and 2015 as a Postdoctoral Researcher
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
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
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.
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
Mike Chappell is a Professor within the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick where he heads the Systems and Information Engineering Discipline Stream that includes much of the Biomedical Engineering activity within the School. He is also a former Co-Lead for the University’s
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
Morgan Jones is a Lecturer in Machine Learning and Control Theory at the University of Sheffield. He earned his PhD from Arizona State University, USA, in 2021 and Mmath in Mathematics from The University of Oxford, England in 2016.
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.
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.
Ross Drummond is Lecturer in Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He completed his MEng degree from Imperial College London and his DPhil from the University of Oxford. His research aims to improve our understanding of systems described by feedback loops
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
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
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
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
Daniel Auger is Professor of Electrification, Modelling and Control at Cranfield University, where he is a member of the Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre. He completed his MEng(Hons) and his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Before taking up an academic appointment, he worked for BAE
Zehor Belkhatir is a Lecturer in the School of Electronics and Computer Science and Programme Leader for BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southampton (UoS). She is also a member of the Institute of Life Sciences at UoS.
Ziwei Wang is a Lecturer in Robotics at Lancaster University, leading the Advanced Robotic Teleoperation Lab at the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre (LIRA). He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, China. Prior to joining Lancaster University,