Malarvizhi K. Chinnathai is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Westminster. She is the module leader for Industrial Decision Support Systems, Simulation Modelling, Big Data Analytics, and deputy module leader for Database Systems. She previously worked as a Research Fellow in the Brunel Innovation Centre, Brunel University before which she worked as a Project Engineer (Digital Manufacturing) in the Automation Systems Group (ASG) at the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick. She graduated from the University of Warwick with a PhD in Engineering (2021) and an MSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering (2015). She has submitted numerous peer-reviewed conference proceedings and journal articles, and is performing research in the areas of manufacturing system design, electric vehicles (EV), EV battery assembly, applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, machine vision, image analysis, mathematical optimization, and operations research. She has worked as a researcher on various internationally teamed EPSRC and Innovate-UK funded projects such as: AI6S, ATTIC, AMPLiFII, H1PERBAT, DIGIMAN, etc. She is a member of IEEE and reviewer in multiple journals such as Elsevier Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and MDPI Machines.