Our Researchers

Imelda graduated with a PhD from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2018. She previously completed a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2014, with an industrial placement as a Manufacturing Engineer at B/E Aerospace (now Collins Aerospace).…

Andrew completed his PhD in 2022 from Queen’s University Belfast after previously obtaining Master of Mechanical Engineering also from Queen’s. His PhD project titled ”Deep Learning for Boundary Representation CAD Models” focussed on using neural networks for learning from B-Rep…

Simon studied Ecology at Bachelors level at RHBNC London, before moving to York to complete an MSc in Biological Computation in 1994. His research project led to an EPSRC-funded position as a research associate in computer vision, which was the…

Paul graduated with a PhD from the school of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough in 2015 having previously completed an MEng in Mechanical Engineering. His PhD focused upon cost estimation for remanufacturing, using techniques including case-based reasoning and…

Edgar completed his PhD in 2019 from the University of York in the Department of Electronics. His PhD focused upon the fault-tolerance in foraging robotics swarms. After completing his PhD, Edgar worked as Research Associate in the Autonomous Robotic Evolution…

Zhiwei graduated with a PhD from college of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2022. His major is aerospace manufacturing engineering, and his PhD project titled “Deformation control method driven by deformation force monitoring data…

Thomas studied for his Master’s and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast, completing in 2022. His PhD project was entitled “A Feature-Mapping Optimisation Framework for CAD Based Design”, where he explored the potential of integrating topology optimisation frameworks…

Naeem Iqbal received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Computer Engineering Department at Jeju National University, Republic of Korea, in 2023. He has been awarded the best academic achievement award (Presidential Award) for outstanding research in his doctoral course.…

Matt joined the RIED team in July 2023 as a research associate within the Multifunctional Materials and Manufacturing lab of the Wolfson School. His research focus is the cyber-physical validation of porous structures, and his other interests include additive manufacturing…