Category: Delegate

Dr Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahim is an Associate Professor and the Director of UTM International Office Department, UTM Kuala Lumpur. He is an associate lecturer at Graduate School of Business Administration, Meiji University Japan since 2011. He is also an invited lecturer at Beifeng University of Nationalities, China as well as Far Eastern University, the Philippines. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and B.Sc. in Engineering Management from University of Evansville (USA) in 1988. He obtained his MSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Warwick University (United Kingdom) in 1991 and his PhD from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2006. He also received a Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health in Manufacturing Industries from Worksafe Western Australia in 1998 as well as Train the Trainers Certificate for Safety and Officer Program from NIOSH.

He is a member of American Society for Quality (ASQ), associate member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), associate member of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, member of IEEE, member of MyTRIZ, graduate member of IEM, member of International Society of Horticultural Science, member of International Society of Applied Intelligence and a member of National Geographic Society. He is currently involves in a Strategic Management project with Ministry of Human Development and Labour, Khartoum State and High Level Academy Aviation (HLAA), Sudan. His area of expertise is in Occupational Safety and Health, Industrial Engineering as well as Entrepreneurship.

Professor Parkin gained a BSc in Engineering Science from Leicester University and a PhD from Leicester Polytechnic (De Montfort University). He is a leading figure in the international field of Mechatronics and has published in excess of 400 journal and conference papers. In 31 years as a career academic he has graduated 45 PhD students.

He is a Chartered Engineer being a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Engineering & Technology and the Royal Society of Arts & Commerce. The majority of his research has involved industry partnerships and he has served as Managing Director of 3 spin-out companies, winning 2 DTI SMART awards and 2 HEIF Enterprise Fellowships. He has worked at De Montfort and Loughborough Universities served as a non- executive director of the MTC (www.the-mtc.org) before joining Bradford.

Robert is an invited member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences, Leipzig, Germany and a Visiting Professor of Chongqing UPT and Hohhot Forestry University PRC. He was a founder member of the UK Mechatronics Forum and led the Mechatronics Research Centre at Loughborough University before becoming Dean of the Wolfson School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering in 2007.

During his leadership the School doubled its student applications and trebled its research portfolio. The School’s performance was instrumental in the University being awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for High Value Manufacturing in 2013 and a QS World University 5 stars rating in 2014.

Professor Jing Na is currently also a Marie Curie IIF Research Fellowship holder from European Commission Research Executive Agency and affiliated with the Department of Engineering at the University of Bristol.

He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain in 2008, and a Joint PhD Student at the University of Bristol, U.K from October 2008 to September 2009. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the ITER Organization (France) from 2011 to 2013. He has published more than 80 papers obtained more than 500 citations since 2010. His H-index is 13. He is serving as a Principle Investigator (PI) for one EU project (Marie Curie Fellowship), two national natural science foundation of China (NSFC) projects, one Royal Society-Newton Mobility Grant jointly supported by NSFC of China and Royal Society of UK, and several other research projects. His current research interests include adaptive control, neural networks, parameter estimation, nonlinear control and applications.

Dr John Steele is Business Partnerships Manager at the University of Bradford and has over 20 years’ experience in senior technical roles in the chemical, polymer and related industries.  He has a Ph.D in organic chemistry, an MBA and is author of 10 published patents.

Professor Hu Shougen (born in Sep.1959) is member of Chinese Communist Party and the current President of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He is professor, supervisor of PhD, expert enjoying the special government allowance and member of Shanghai municipal political consultative conference (CPPCC).

Participating in work in Sep. 1976, Hu Shougen served as director of rural working group in ji’an county Committee Organization Department of CPC Jiangxi province. From Feb. 1978 to Aug. 1987, he studied at Shanghai Jiao Tong University majoring in Ship and Ocean Engineering and won bachelor and masters and PhD degrees in engineering; From Aug. 1987 to May 2004, he worked at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and successively acted as vice director of Department of fluid mechanics of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (formerly Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering), deputy dean and executive vice president in school of energy and power engineering, director of academic affairs office, vice president of USST. From May 2004 to Jan. 2013, he held the post of president of Shanghai Second Polytechnic University.

From Feb. 1991 to Oct. 1992, Hu Shougen was a guest researcher at Mechanical engineering research institute of National Research Council of Canada，Ottawa. In 1994, he was promoted to professor and get doctoral tutor qualification in 1995. He was engaged in teaching and scientific research work in fluid mechanics, fluid machinery and fluid power engineering and made significant contributions in the fields of Ship propeller modification design and calculation, Polymer drag reduction and jet cutting, cavitating water jets, underwater high pressure water jet, and pipeage.

He was successively awarded “Shanghai New Expedition Shock Worker” “The National Outstanding Mechanical Teachers”  “The Cross Century Academic Leader of the Original Mechanical Department” “National Key Talents Project on the First and Second Level Candidate”.

Dr Yanguang Shan is the Vice Director of the Centre for Faculty Teaching Development. He works with university faculty on enhancing teaching and pedagogical development. He is also a professor with the School of Energy and Power Engineering at USST. Professor Shan received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto in 2004. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Advanced Coating Technologies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the study of transport phenomena in thermal spraying and material synthesis, the dynamics of the droplet trajectory and vaporization, and the drying of complex fluids.

Dr Morris is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Oxford. He is also a consultant to NOHAZ (Neurons on Hybrid AlgorithmZ, www.nohaz.co). NOHAZ is an R&D laboratory that applies human and machine intelligence to innovation, problem solving, and product development. Finally, when asked, he is a sporadic lecturer here in the University of Bradford’s Faculty of Engineering & Informatics.

Peet spends most of his time thinking about thinking. His interests are broadly: Deep Learning; Computational Linguistics; Computational Neuroscience; Experimental Psychology; plus Software Engineering – because in the end, it all needs to be built fit-for-purpose. Previously, he co-founded, built, and then sold, a successful software house in the UK, and prior to that he was a Senior Developer at Microsoft.