Meet the experts

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Professor Wen-Hua Chen

Professor in Autonomous Vehicles, ESPRC Established Career Fellow

Expertise: Unmanned vehicle, situational awareness, decision making, disturbance observer, model predictive control

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Dr Matt Best

Senior Lecturer in Vehicle Dynamics and Control

Expertise: Driver modelling, vehicle dynamics, vehicle control, vehicle riding and handling, system identification

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Dr Matthew Coombes

Lecture in Autonomous Vehicles

Expertise: Autonomous vehicles including unmanned aerial system, forced landing, situational awareness, autonomous taxiing, mission planning optimization

Dr Sarah Dunnett

Reader in Systems Reliability

Expertise: Risk and Reliability generation methods, Modelling Service Support System, Reliability modelling of phased missions, Vehicle Safety and new hazard analysis technologies

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Professor Kambiz Ebrahimi

Professor of Advanced Propulsion

Expertise: Dynamics and Control, Electric Hybrid Propulsion

Dr Miguel Martínez García

Senior Lecturer in Machine Intelligence

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Statistical Learning, Complex Systems, Non-linear time series analysis, Human-machine Systems

Professor Lisa Jackson

Professor of Risk and Reliability; Head of the Department

Expertise: reliability of engineering systems, system safety and enhanced service provision.

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Dr. Jingjing Jiang

Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles

Expertise: Shared-Control (i.e. Human-machine interactions), development of advanced driver assistant system (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, traffic control

Dr. James Knowles

Senior Lecturer in Dynamics and Control

Expertise: Applications of Numerical Continuation to investigations of engineering systems, mathematical modelling and analysis of dynamical systems, vehicle dynamics

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Dr. Chengyuan Liu

Lecturer in Safety-Critical Control

Expertise: Safety-critical control, intelligent control, autonomous vehicles and robots

Prof. Cunjia Liu

Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Expertise: Novel perception and decision algorithms, robotic and autonomous system, Applications in security, industry and agriculture domains

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Dr. Georgios Mavros

Reader in Intelligent Mobility and Vehicle Dynamics

Expertise: Thermo-mechanical and structural tyre modelling, tyre testing and model parameter identification, vehicle dynamics and control

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Dr. Thomas Steffen

Reader in Control of Energy Systems

Expertise: Electrification and control of hybrid vehicles, connected/autonomous vehicle

Dr. Jun Yang

Reader in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles

Expertise: Disturbance observer, motion control, visual servoing, nonlinear control, and autonomous systems

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Dr. Eve Zhang

Senior Lecturer in Digital Engineering

Expertise: Condition Monitoring & Fault Diagnosis of Industrial Systems; Data-driven & Grey-box Modelling Data Mining, Pattern Recognition & System Identification & Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Yuanjian Zhang

Lecturer in Intelligent Electric Vehicles

Expertise: New generation clean propulsion control and optimisation, digital modelling and simulation, intelligent transportation system and artificial intelligence in engineering practice.