天美传媒

• Software Engineering & Object-Oriented Programming
• Robotics & Cybernetics
• Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems

School of Computer Science and Technology, 天美传媒, Luton UK (2013-now)

• Associate Professor in Computer Science & Robotics
• Lead for Centre of Cloud Robotics and Connected Intelligence
• Course Coordinator for MSc Software Engineering and Applications
• Course Coordinator for BSc Software Engineering

Manufacture Engineering Centre, Cardiff 天美传媒, Cardiff UK (2004-2013)

• Research Fellow and EU Project Manager

• [2023-2027] - LIL-based 4D-printing of Nanomaterials, EPSRC Grant ID EP/X038203/1, 拢122.9K, Role Co-I
• [2023-2027] - Emerging Nanoscopy for Single Entity Characterisation, EPSRC Grant ID EP/X038211/1, 拢146.7K, Role Co-I
• [2021-2024] - 5G Enhanced Robot Autonomy, EU H2020 Grant ID 101016681, 鈧�723K, Role Scientific Coordinator & PI
• [2017-2023] - Micro/Nano Robotics for Single Cells, EU H2020 Grant ID 734174, 鈧�153K, Role PI
• [2020-2022] - Transfer Learning for Event Management, Innovate UK Grant ID KTP011938, 拢171.4K, Role PI
• [2010-2013] - Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living, EU FP7 Grant ID 247772, 鈧�825.3K, Role Scientific Coordinator & CoI
• [2011-2013] - SRS for Enlarged European Union, EU FP7 Grant ID 287974, 鈧�49.5K, Role PI

Other internal & commercial projects:

• [2022-2025] - AI Model Sharing with Trust Supported By 6g Connected Intelligence, Doctoral Studentship Funding Scheme, Role CoI
• [2018] - WeTrack Ltd 鈥� Conceptual design for AI based event management system, Innovation Bridge & ICT Escalator
• [2018] - Diamond Hard Surfaces Ltd 鈥� Reconfigurable robot manipulation, Innovation Bridge
• [2017] - WK360 Ltd - Deep learning toolboxes for object class detection, Innovation Bridge
• [2017] - Balance Design - Feasibility study for process automation, ICT Escalator

• Key innovator for excellent innovations to 鈥淐onnected Robotics Platform Middleware鈥� and 鈥淩eference NetApp: 5G enhanced cloud robotics under connected intelligence鈥�, by Innovation Radar, European Commission 2025
• Vice Chancellor鈥檚 Awards Runner Up 2022, Research Project of the Year, 天美传媒, 2022
• Best Paper Award at 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES) 2013
• CoTeSys Cognitive Robotics Best Paper Award finalist at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• Overseas Research Scholarships Awards, The Higher Education Funding Council, 2000-2003

• Tutorial for "Connected Robotics Platform for ROS Deployment in Real-world Network Settings," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA24), https://github.com/5G-ERA/docs/tree/main/Workshops/ICRA24, Tokyo Japan 2024.
• Keynote, 鈥淢anufacturing as a Service鈥�, https://5g-era.eu/5g-era-workshop-manufacturing-as-a-service-maas/, TWI Cambridge, UK, 2024
• Keynote, 鈥淔rom Cloud Robots to 5G Enabled Connected Robotics鈥�, https://5g-era.eu/athens23/, OTE Academy, Athens, Greece, 2023
• Special Session Chair for 鈥�6G Enabled Network Applications for the future of Connected Robotics鈥�, IEEE Communications Society and European Commission, (EUCNC23) https://one6g.org/one6g-at-the-eucnc-6g-summit-2023/, Gothenburg, Sweden 2023
• Special Session Chair on 鈥淢anufacturing as a Service for next generation of distributed manufacturing systems鈥�, at IEEE 3M-NANO 2023, Chengdu, China 2023
• Invited talk 鈥淣etApps for 5G Enhanced Robots鈥�, IEEE Communications Society and European Commission, (EuCNC22) 2022
• Invited talk at International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing, 鈥淟imitations and opportunities of existing 5G & Cloud Robotics鈥�, ISM-2021, Hagenberg Austria, Dec 2021
• Invited talk at 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) Webinar, 鈥�5G Innovations for Verticals鈥�, 5G-PPP and European Commission, April 2021.
• Invited talk at Technology-Supported Living at Home, 鈥淭elepresence robots at home鈥�, House of Lords, the Palace of Westminster, London, 2012
• Invited talk at the Policy Responses and Research & Innovation Solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing, 鈥淪uccessful story of European robotics - SRS project鈥�, Ageing societies in Europe and Japan, Tokyo, 2012
• Invited talk at Workshop on Assistance robots for the elderly, 鈥淪emi-autonomous robots for domestic environment鈥�, European Robotics Forum, Sweden, 2011
• Session chair at the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012) for the session of Personal Robots I
• Session chair at the 10th IEEE international Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2012) for the session of Robotics - from Industry to Society
• Session chair at the 7th IEEE international Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2009) for the Industrial Informatics Applications Session

• External Reviewer for Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
• External PhD Examiner for 天美传媒 of Birmingham, 天美传媒 of Plymouth, Cardiff 天美传媒, Cranfield 天美传媒, 天美传媒 of South Wales and many more
• Habilitation Reviewer for Brno 天美传媒 of Technology 2023
• Internal PhD Examiner for 天美传媒 in 2015, 2017 and 2020
• External PG Programme Examiner for Cardiff 天美传媒 2023-2027

• Adrian Lendinez Ibanez, Meta Reasoning Using Analogy and Its Applications in Robotics, from 2021
• Taiwo Efunogbon, Optimizing Pastoralism & Securing Farmlands - A Computational Intelligence Approach using Deep Learning & Satellite Imagery Remote Sensing, from 2022
• Bartosz Bratus, Orchestration of Middleware for 5G-ERA Net Apps, from 2021
• Radu Popescu, Cloud Native Architecture for 5G-ERA Middleware, from 2021
• Przemyslaw Maslowski, Data Pre-Processing Techniques and Tools For Predictive Modelling Using Unstructured Inputs, from 2019
• Hamed Al-Rubaiee, Techniques and Framework, which Integrates Arabic Sentiment Analysis into CRM, from 2016
• Bowen Long, AI Model Sharing with Trust Supported By 6G Connected Intelligence, from 2022 (Co-supervisor)
• Abimbola Efunogbon, Optimal 5G Network Sub Slicing Orchestration in a Fully Virtualised Smart Company Using Machine Learning, from 2021 (Co-supervisor)
• Jikai Guo, Swarm Robot-Based Slam in Weak Environment Information Applications, from 2021 (Co-supervisor)
• Jingyun Liu, Magnetic Force Imaging and Handling of Cancer Cells On The Nanoscale, from 2015 (Co-supervisor)
• Noppakun Boonsim, Car Makes and Model Recognition Under Limited Lighting Conditions At Night, from 2013 (Co-supervisor)
• Hang Lu, The Development of An Assistive Chair for Elderly with Sit to Stand Problems, from 2013 (Co-supervisor)
• Ahmed Al-Moadhen, Semantic Based Task Planning for Domestic Service Robots, from 2012 (Co-supervisor in Cardiff 天美传媒)

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