People
Professor George Panoutsos
George Panoutsos, head of the CIS laboratory, is a postgraduate of the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield. He completed the MSc degree in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering in 2003 and obtained his PhD in 2007 after studying Computational Intelligence theory and process modelling. His PhD research work led to a number of international journal publications and an international patent in the field of Granular Computing, and was followed by a two-year appointment as a post-doctoral researcher in the same Department. He started his career as a full-time academic in ACSE as a Lecturer in 2010, and since January 2019 promoted to Professor of Computational Intelligence (Personal Chair).
His research focus is on Computational Intelligence systems theory, with applications on advanced manufacturing processes (modelling, optimisation, autonomous systems, machine learning, fault detection), as well as biomedical systems (modelling, process monitoring, data-mining, real-time decision support). He is a member of the University’s manufacturing research board and has been on research secondment to the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (supported by EPSRC IAA). He currently is Deputy Head of Department in ACSE; he has over 60 research publications, is PI/CI in active research awards relevant to manufacturing with over £2M apportioned funding; main awards: EPSRC MAPP-Powder Manufacturing £10M 2016-2023, EPSRC/InnovateUK TACDAM-Additive Manufacturing £1M 2017-2018, EU H2020, Factories of the Future (optimisation of laser-based manufacturing processes) 2015-2018 €3.48M, InnovateUK: Data Analytics in Rail Manufacturing 2014-2016 £0.44M. Projects include direct industrial funding linked to high profile commercial products in the aerospace, automotive and rail manufacturing sectors (TWI Ltd. UK – Boeing 747, Embraer Legacy 500, TATA Steel - Long Products Europe – UK/EU rail manufacturing, Nestle - Global, Hidria Automotive - European Operations - PSA Peugeot Citroën automotive parts).
ACSE departmental webpage: Academic Profile
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr Bo Luo (Machine Learning, advanced manufacturing, current projects: ATI DAM, ATI AIRLIFT)
Dr Scott V Notley (Interpretable machine learning, advanced manufacturing, current projects: EPRC MAPP Hub, H2020 INTEGRADDE)
Atakan Sahin (Soft Computing, current projects: advanced manufacturing: VULCAN Innovate UK)
PhD researchers
Mr Zhen Xi (machine learning, interpretable deep learning, soft computing, advanced manufacturing systems)
Mr Kai Eivind Wu (multi-objective optimisation, advanced manufacturing systems, metallic 3D printing)
Mr Hesham Yusuf (machine learning, soft computing, advanced manufacturing systems, friction welding and phased array ultrasonics)
Mr Mohamed Atwya (soft computing, advanced manufacturing systems, metallic 3D printing, thermography)
Mr Muhammad Zaiyad Muda (soft computing, advanced manufacturing systems)
Mr Guy Harding (joint supervisor, multiobjective optimisation for design of experiments)
Mr Jordan Pannell (joint supervisor, Dept. Civil and Structural Eng., machine learning for modelling blast dynamics)
Mr Muhammad S Aftab (joint supervisor, model-based process control for advanced manufacturing)
UG and PGT students
2018-2019 BEng/MEng project students
Mr Fady Rezk (feature selection and data-driven modelling for clinical decision support)
Mr Ricardo Dominguez Olmedo (reinforcement deep learning for advanced manufacturing processes)
Mr Stephane Moreau (Signal processing and visualisation for human body motion capture)
Mr Tom Robbins (model-based fault detection for steel making manufacturing processes)
Mr Omar Labib (Machine Learning for process quality control in advanced manufacturing)
2018-2019 MSc project students
Mr Shaopeng Cai (model-based process operating windows in metal laser powder-bed fusion)
Mr Chuang Ma (model-based process monitoring in Selective Laser Melting)
Miss Asrheen Mir (model-based process monitoring in electron-beam melting)
Mr Adam Rose (Machine Learning for process quality control in metal laser powder-bed fusion
Mr Lingxiao Yang (model-based process monitoring in electron-beam melting))
Alumni
Dr Adrian Rubio Solis (PhD 2014, post-doctoral researcher 2014-2018 in Soft Computing, projects: EPSRC MAPP, Innovate UK TACDAM)
Dr Adnan Hamad (post-doctoral researcher 2016-2017 EPSRC IAA and EU H2020 COMBILASER, model-based fault detection, process optimisation)
Dr George Tzagkarakis (post-doctoral researcher 2015-2016 EU H2020 COMBILASER, manufacturing process modelling)
Dr Ali Mustafa Baraka (PhD 2017 Soft-computing and human-centric approaches for modelling of complex manufacturing systems, 2016-2017 post-doctoral researcher )
Dr Julio Cesar De Alejandro Montalvo (PhD 2015 Interpretability-oriented data-driven modelling of bladder cancer via computational intelligence)
Dr Alicia Adriana Rodriguez Gonzalez (PhD 2014 Multiscale model-based search for optimal process operating windows in Friction Stir Welding )
Dr Kirsten Sinclair (post-doctoral researcher 2012 EPSRC IAA, software researcher, friction stir welding tool GUI)