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Rossi Setchi FLSW, FIMechE, FIET, FBCS, SMIEEE

Professor Rossi Setchi

FLSW, FIMechE, FIET, FBCS, SMIEEE

Professor in High-Value Manufacturing and Director of the Research Centre for AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS)

School of Engineering

Email
Setchi@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 75720
Campuses
Queen's Buildings - South Building, Room S/2.41, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Overview

Professor Rossi Setchi is Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and Professor of High-Value Manufacturing at the School of Engineering. She is Director of the Research Centre in AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS) and Co-Director of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Cardiff (CAMSAC).

Rossi has a distinguished track record of research in a range of areas including AI, robotics, systems engineering, additive manufacturing, industrial sustainability, Cyber-Physical Systems and Industry 4.0, and, in particular, has built an international reputation for excellence in knowledge-driven symbolic AI, computational semantics and human-machine systems. Her edited books on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing are among the top Springer publications that address important United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Over a period of 20 years, Professor Setchi has contributed over 270 peer reviewed publications including 15 edited books and over 110 journal articles, secured external grant support totalling more than £25 million and supervised to successful completion 27 PhD students. She has collaborated with over 20 UK and 30 overseas universities, 15 research organisations and 30 industrial companies from more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Australia. She has provided research leadership on over 30 collaborative projects funded by UK and overseas funding bodies, including the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, EPSRC and the European Commission. She has completed research projects with many UK-based companies including Airbus, BAE Systems, Bosch UK, Brass Bullet, Carlisle Brake and Friction, Celsa,  Continental Teves, Costain, Ford, Highways England, Primasil Silicones, Panalpina, Qioptiq, Renishaw, Sandvik Osprey and The Royal Mint as well as a number of companies from Europe including Schneider Electric, SAP, Siemens, neuroConn, and Meytec from Germany, Robotiker and Robotnik from Spain, Centro Ricerche Fiat, FIDIA S.p.A., Stile Bertone and Hewlett Packard from Italy, Smart Brain from Norway, Pertimm from France and many more. Her FP7 project SRS on remotely-controlled, semi-autonomous robots to support elderly people at home was highlighted in the annual UK Department of Health R&D report and included in another report by Kay Swinburne MEP as an example of a high-impact project (the only one from Wales). It has been presented at high-profile events in the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster and an EU-Japan Conference in Tokyo.

Professor Setchi has contributed invited keynotes at prestigious conferences including 3DP 2022, Singapore, CJUMP 2022, Jinan, China, HCIS 2020, Split, Croatia, IC3A 2020, Lucknow, India, IWAMA 2019, Plymouth, UK, GCSM 2018, Lexington, USA, SDM 2018, Gold Coast, Australia, ISSE 2017, Tsu, Japan, KES 2015, Singapore, IJSS 2015, Sapporo, Japan, IIUM Engineering Congress 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and delivered invited lectures at many world-class universities in Colombia, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, UK and the USA.

Professor Setchi is Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional, and European Engineer. She is Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the British Computer Society, and Senior Member of IEEE. Rossi is member of IFIP Technical Committee on Computer Aided Innovation (WG5.4), IFAC Technical Committee on Human-Machine Systems (WG4.5) and IEEE Task Force on Human-like Intelligence of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 

For many years she was a trustee of Engineering Education Scheme – Wales (EESW), a charity which encourages sixth form students to study engineering, and is currently a member of the Tech Valleys Strategic Advisory Board (2018-2023). She has acted as a judge on a number of occasions (e.g. since 2015 on Made in Wales Awards and “We Made It!” Competition) and often contributes as panellist and speaker to public events and debates such as the Financial Times Manufacturing Summit in 2019. In 2021 she chaired a roundtable on the Future of AI and IP, organised in collaboration with IPO in response to Government’s consultations on the need for changes to the existing IP frameworks.

Professor Setchi has considerable experience at national and international level in evaluating research quality and impact. She is a member of the EPSRC Pier Review College since 2003 and has chaired many EPSRC Panels. She was the only university representative on a panel of nine experts from Europe involved in the mid-term evaluation of the Private-Public Partnerships in Horizon 2020. She has assisted the European Institute of Innovation and Technology with policy advice on Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) in Added-Value Manufacturing. Professor Setchi currently serves as External Examiner at The University of Hong Kong and a member of the REF2021 Panel for Engineering (UoA 12).

Honours and awards

  • 2019: Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shandong University, China
  • 2017: Visiting Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
  • 2017: Tan Chin Tuan Senior Fellowship in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • 2015: Award for Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge Engineering Systems, awarded at KES 2015, Singapore.
  • 2004: Donald Julius Groen Prize awarded by IMechE for a journal paper in the area of digital manufacturing and overall contribution to manufacturing.
  • 1999: Literati Club Award awarded for a journal paper on computational modelling and robotics.

In addition, papers co-authored with her PhD students and Research Associates have received Best Paper Awards at IEEE LifeTech, Kyoto, Japan, SDM 2016, Chania, Greece, KES 2016, York, UK, KES 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan, and KES 2012, San Sebastian, Spain.

Technical Committees and Advisory Boards

  • 2018-present:TechValleys Strategic Advisory Board; I-Form Scientific Advisory Committee, UCD, Ireland.
  • 2017-present: MIEEE Task Force on Human-like Intelligence of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
  • 2016-present: IFIP Technical Committee on Computer Aided Innovation (WG5.4) and IFAC Technical Committee on Human-Machine Systems (WG4.5)
  • 2013-present: Chair of the KES Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Society with more than 500 members world-wide.
  • 2010-present: Executive Board of KES International. The KES association is a community consisting of several thousand research scientists working in three key areas: Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Renewable Energy and Sustainability, and Knowledge Transfer and Innovation.

Management and advisory board positions

Data Innovation Research Institute

Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Cardiff (CAMSAC)

Research Centre for AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems

Tech Valleys Strategic Advisory Board

SFI Research Centre for Advanced Manufacturing (I-Form), Ireland

Research Expert Advisory Group (REAG), Intellectual Property Office (IPO)

Publication

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Articles

Book sections

Books

Conferences

Monographs

Research

Research theme: Mechanics, Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

Recent Contracts

Over a period of 20 years, Professor Setchi has been able to secure, with colleagues, external grant support totalling more than £25 million. She has collaborated with over 20 UK and 30 overseas universities, 15 research organisations and 30 industrial companies from more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Australia. She has provided research leadership on over 30 collaborative projects sponsored by UK and overseas funding bodies. See Professor Setchi's recent contracts in the table below.

List of Recent Contracts 

Setchi, R., Wang, P.

Title: Architectural microstructure-modification mechanisms and the microstructure-performance optimization for SLM Aluminium matrix composites

Sponsor: The Royal Society

Value: £12,000, Duration: 31/03/22 – 30/03/24

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Setchi, R., Evans, S. E.

Title: Transforming Foundation Industries Hub (TransFIRe), led by Cranfield University

Sponsor: UKRI

Value: £345,810 (for Cardiff), Duration: 1/07/21 - 30/06/23

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Setchi, R., Allen, S., Jones, D.

Title: Research Centre in AI, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS)

Sponsor: WEFO and Cardiff University

Value: £5.4m; Duration: 1/04/19 – 01/01/23

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Setchi, R., Naim, M. and Weeks, I.

Title: ASTUTE 2020

Sponsor: Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO)

Value: total £4,762,654 (for Cardiff), external funding £3,168,181, 60% for ENGIN; Duration: 1/07/15 – 30/09/22

Partners: Welsh manufacturing companies, Welsh Universities

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Setchi, R., Naim, M. and Weeks, I.

Title: ASTUTE 2020 - EAST

Sponsor: Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO)

Value: total £4,249,716 (for Cardiff), external funding £2,049,315, 60% for ENGIN; Duration: 1/10/17 – 30/09/22

Partners: Welsh manufacturing companies, Welsh Universities

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Setchi, R.

Title:  Carlisle Batch Assembly Collaborative Robot

Sponsor: WEFO through ASTUTE and Industry

Value: £105,160 including £55,100.00 from Carlisle Brake and Friction; Duration:  1/1/20 - 1/9/20

Partner: Carlisle Brakes and Friction

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Setchi, R., Ji, Z., Evans, S.

Title: Deep Learning Enabled Wing Box Inspection (DEWI)

Sponsor: Endeavr/Industry

Value: £61,791

Duration: 1/07/19 – 31/09/19

Partner: Airbus

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Setchi, R., Spasic, I.

Title: AI-assisted Prior Art Search

Sponsor: BEIS/Industry

Value: £88,200

Duration: 21/01/19 – 20/10/19

Partner: IPO

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Setchi, R.

Title: Design and Additive Manufacturing of a New Composite Al-Calamine Material Through a Bilateral Collaboration Between Colombian and UK Industry and Academia

Sponsor: Royal Academy of Engineering

Value: £21,600

Duration: 15/04/19 – 14/04/21

Partner: Colombia

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Ji, Z., Setchi, R., Bigot, S.

Title: 3D Reconstruction and Characterisation of Spattering Behaviours in SLM Processing by Fusing Rroi-Based Images from Multiple Cameras

Sponsor: Industry and Cardiff University

Value: £39,986 including 50% match contribution from Cardiff University

Duration: 01/04/19 - 31/03/20

Partner: Renishaw

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Setchi, R. (PI), Evans, S.L., Brousseau, E.

Title: The Upgrade of High Strength Crack-Free Hastelloy X Powder for Additive Manufacturing

Sponsor: WEFO through ASTUTE and Industry

Value: £77,473 including £39,500 from Sandvik

Duration: 01/06/18 – 31/05/19

Partner: Sandvik Osprey Ltd.

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Weeks, I. (PI), Setchi, R., Gumbleton, M., Westwell, A., Naim, M., Sloan, A.

Title: ACCELERATOR East and West

Sponsor: WEFO

Value: £3,200,650

Duration: 01/06/18 - 31/05/21

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Ji, Z., Setchi, R.

Title: Pushing the Boundary of Vision-Based 3D Surface Imaging

Sponsor: Industry and Cardiff University

Value: £40,000 including 50% match contribution from Cardiff University

Duration: 01/04/18 - 31/03/19

Partner: Renishaw

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Setchi, R., M. Ryan

Title: Lightweight Tooling for Concentric Collet Drilling Templates and Leading Edge Flags

Sponsor: WEFO through ASTUTE and Industry

Value: £811,706 including £600k from Airbus and £211,706 from WEFO

Duration: 28/03/18 – 27/03/20

Partner: Airbus

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Setchi, R., Z. Ji

Title: Additive Manufacturing and Robotics to Support Improved Response to Increased Flexibility

Sponsor: WEFO through ASTUTE and Industry

Value: £884,673 including £652,661 from Continental and £232,012 from WEFO

Duration: 02/02/18 – 01/02/19

Partner: Continental Teves UK

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Setchi, R.

Title: Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab, Care-O-Bot 4.0

Sponsor: Cardiff University through RIF, DIRI, ENGIN, COMSC

Value: £440,000

Duration: 1/05/17 – 31/07/18

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Setchi, R., Soe, S.

Title: Additive Manufactured Cellular Lattice Design for Shock Isolation

Sponsor: WEFO through ASTUTE and Industry

Value: £131,327.11 including £70,181 from Qioptiq and £61,146.71 from WEFO;

Duration: 31/12/17 – 31/12/18

Partner: Qioptiq

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Gosling J., Naim, M., Thomas R. and Setchi, R.

Title: Project Memories

Sponsor: Industry

Value: £36,000 (25% for ENGIN); Duration: 1/01/17 – 31/12/17

Partners: Highways England, WSP Parsons-Brinckerhoff, Costain

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Lacan F, Setchi R

Title: Combine advanced supply chain solutions with 3dp expertise

Sponsor: Panalpina World Transport, KTP

Value: £113,966; Duration: 01/12/2015 - 30/09/2017

Partner: Panalpina

Teaching

Professor Setchi is Director of the MSc degree course in Advanced Mechanical Engineering. Her teaching is based on a reflective, reasoned and innovatory approach and on total commitment to the highest quality.

She works closely with industry and has supervised a large number of UG and MSc projects with industrial companies such as including Airbus, BAE Systems, Bosch UK, Orange Box, Qioptiq, Panalpina, Renishaw and Royal Mint. Her teaching responsibilities include ENT636 Advanced Mechanical Case Study, ENT604 Measurement Systems and ENT605 Case Study. Modules taught in the past: EN3033 Materials and Manufacturing, EN2909 Product Design and Systems Integration, EN2008 Computing 2, EN3905 Computer Controlled Manufacture and more.

Biography

Professor Rossi Setchi received her Double Honours degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (first class, Summa Cum Laude) from Moscow Technological University in Russia, and her PhD from Cardiff University, UK. She joined the School of Engineering as a Lecturer in 2000; she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007 and Personal Chair in 2011. She was a member of the REF2021 Panel for Engineering (UoA 12).

Education

  • PhD in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
  • Dipl. Eng. in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, double Honours degree (first class), MEng in Automation and Robotics, Moscow Technological University, Moscow, Russia.

Scientific Leadership: International Conferences

  • 2022: Invited Chair of a Special Session at KES 2022, Verona, Italy and two Invited Sessions at SDM 2022, Split, Croatia. Member of the International Scientific Committee of Global Conference on 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Valencia, Spain. Honorary Chair of the 8th Int Conf on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing SDM-22, Split, Croatia.
  • 2021: Invited Chair of a Special Session at KES 2021, Szczecin, Poland. Honorary Chair of the 7th Int Conf on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing SDM-21, Split, Croatia.
  • 2020: Member of the International Scientific Committee of DESIGN 2020, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Honorary Chair of the 7th Int Conf on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-20), Split, Croatia, Invited Chair of 2 Special Sessions at KES 2020, Verona, Italy.
  • 2019: Honorary Chair of the 6th Int Conf on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-19), Budapest, Hungary, Member of International Program Committee of 17th CIRP Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM), Shanghai, China, the 14th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IEA Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems, Tallinn, Estonia, 22 International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’19), Delft, The Netherlands, and 8th International Congress on Sustainability Science & Engineering (ICOSSE ’19), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • 2018: Member of the Scientific Committee of  16th CIRP GCSM, Lexington, USA, DESIGN 2018, Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • 2017: Honorary Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-17), Bologna, Italy. Member of the Programme Committee of 6th International Congress on Sustainability Science & Engineering (ICOSSE ’17), Barcelona, Spain, 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’17), Vancouver, Canada, and 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence(IEEE CIHLI' 17), Hawaii.
  • 2016: General Co-Chair of the 3rd Int Conf on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing(SDM-16), Chania, Crete, Greece. Honorary Chair of the 20th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES2016), 5-7 September 2016, York, UK. Member of the Programme Committee of DESIGN 2016, Dubrovnik, Croatia, the 13th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems (HMS), Kyoto, Japan and 5th International Congress on Sustainability Science & Engineering (ICOSSE ’16), Suzhou, China.
  • 2015: General Chair of the 2nd Int  Conf on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-15), Seville, Spain, Member of the Programme Committee of ICED 2015, Milan, Italy and SEKM’15, Vancouver, Canada. Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering, Balatonfured, Hungary. Invited Chair of a Special Session on Knowledge Engineering in Medical Informatics of the me International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC’15), Hong Kong.
  • 2014: General Chair of the Int Conf on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-14), Cardiff, UK. Member of the Programme Committee of IEEE SMC 2014, San Diego, USA, KSS14, Sapporo, Japan, DESIGN 2014, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Invited Chair of a Special Session on Knowledge Engineering in Medical and Healthcare Informatics of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC’14), San Diego, USA.
  • 2013: Member of the Programme Committees of ICED13, Seoul, Korea and CENTERIS 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • 2012: Member of the Programme Committees of KSS12, Ishikawa, Japan, DESIGN 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • 2011: Member of the Programme Committees of CENTERIS 2011, Algarve, Portugal, ICED11, Copenhagen, Denmark, IADIS Collaborative Technologies’11, Rome, Italy and NLDB’11, Alicante, Spain.
  • 2010: General Chair of the 14th Int Conf on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2010), Cardiff, UK. Member of the Program Committee of I*PROMS’10, Cardiff, UK, KEER’10, Paris, France, NLDB, Cardiff, UK, MCCSIS’10, Freiburg, Germany, CENTERIS’10, Viana do Castelo, Portugal and S3T, Varna, Bulgaria. Member of the Organising Committee of NLBD, Cardiff, UK. Invited Co-Chair of a Special Track on Collaborative Knowledge Management (CKM) at KGCM, Orlando, FL, USA.
  • 2009: Member of the Programme Committee of KES’09, Santiago, Chile and I*PROMS’09, Cardiff, UK. Invited Chair of a Special Session on Service Computing at DET’09, Hong Kong, China.
  • 2008: Chair of a Conference Session at CIRP ICME’08, Naples, Italy. Member of the Program/Scientific Committee of ISOMA’08, Hawaii, USA, ROBTEP’08, Novy Smokovec, Slovakia, CHER21’08, Sozopol, Bulgaria, and I*PROMS’08, Cardiff, UK.
  • 2007: Chair of Conference Sessions at KSEM’07, Melbourne, Australia, AI’07, Gold Coast, Australia, and CISE’07, Bangkok, Thailand. Member of the Programme Committees of CHER21’07, Sozopol, Bulgaria, I*PROMS’07, Cardiff, UK and ICED'07, France.
  • 2006: Keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference 21st Century Challenges in Higher Education and Research (CHER21), Sozopol, Bulgaria. Chair of a Special Session at ISFA’06, Osaka, Japan. Member of the Programme Committee of ROBTEP’06, Kosice, Slovakia, ISOMA’06, Budapest, Hungary, and CHER21, Sozopol, Bulgaria. Member of the Programme and Organising Committees of I*PROMS’06, Cardiff, UK. Reviewer for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
  • 2004: Member of the IEEE INDIN’04 Programme Committee, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2003: Member of the Scientific Committee of Business Excellence’03, Guimaraes, Portugal.
  • 2001: Member of the Programme and Organising Committees of NCMR’01, Cardiff, UK.
  • 1995: Member of the Organising Committee of AMTECH’95, Rousse, Bulgaria.
  • 1993: Member of the Organising Committee of AMTECH’93, Rousse, Bulgaria.

Scientific Leadership: Editorial Work

  • 2021-2023: Associate Editor of Digital Manufacturing Technology
  • 2018 - 2020: Associate Editor of IEEE Access
  • 2008 - 2018: Associate Editor of the International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS)
  • 2003 - 2022: Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS).
  • 2017: Special Issue on Sustainable Manufacturing for the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
  • 2017: Special Issue on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing for the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
  • 2016: Special Issue on Semantic Technologies for Decision Making of the International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS).
  • 2015: Special Issue on Knowledge Management for Sustainability of the International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS).
  • 2015: Special Issue on Decision Support for Sustainable Design and Manufacturing of the Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering.
  • 2012: Special Issue on Service Computing and Service Oriented Enterprise Systems in Design, Manufacturing and Supply Chain of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
  • 2011: Special issue on Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Management and Imagination of the International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS).
  • 2006: Special Issue on Innovative Production Machines and Systems of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
  • 2002: Special Issue on Intelligent Product Support Systems of the International Journal of Systems Science.
  • 2000-present: Reviewer for the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, International Journal of Systems Science, Integrated Computer Aided Engineering, IMechE Proceedings - Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Knowledge Based Systems, Technovation, Journal of Engineering Design, Computers in Industry and others.

Refereeing for research councils and scientific programmes: UK

  • 2015 - 2022: EPSRC/DST Panel Chair for Resilient Solutions NetworkPlus (2022), EPSRC Panel Chair for Responsive Manufacturing (2021), EPSRC/AI Turing Institute Fellowships (2020), Centres for Doctoral Training (2018), Portfolio grants (2017), Prosperous Nation (2017), Design the Future 1 (2015). Thank you letters in Recognition of significant contribution to EPSRC Peer Review (2019, 2021).
  • 2012 - 2021: ESRC Panel member for Manufacturing Made Smarter NetworkPlus Panel (2021). EPSRC Panel member for Programme Grants (2020), Manufacturing Hubs (2018), Design by Science (2016), Design the Future 2 (2015), Capital Funding for Centres for Doctoral Training (2014), Centres for Doctoral Training (2013), and Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (2012). ESRC Panel member for Manufacturing Made Smarter NetworkPlus (2021).
  • 2010: Reviewer for the Royal Society; research area: semantic-based systems.
  • 2010: Reviewer for the Levelhulme Trust; research area: information technology, AI.
  • 2006: DTI Assessor of collaborative research project proposals (Spring 06 Technology Programme Competition for Funding); research area: ICT: data, scientific and medical visualisation for innovative products and services.
  • 2002 -  present: member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, UK.

Refereeing for research councils and scientific programmes: European Research Programmes

  • 2021: Evaluation expert for Horizon TWIN-OPEN, TWIN-TRANSITION and EIC PATHFINDER.
  • 2018-2020: Evaluation expert for H2020 FETOPEN, DT-ICT, Digital Transformation calls. Project reviewer for DIGICOR, DigiCor and openMOS projects.
  • 2017: Policy adviser at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology; innovation area: Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) in Added-Value Manufacturing.
  • 2016: Evaluation expert and Panel member at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology; innovation area: Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) in Added-Value Manufacturing. Evaluation expert for Horizon 2020 Factory of the Future; research area: digital manufacturing and the Internet of Things.
  • 2015: Evaluation expert for Horizon 2020 ICT for the Creative Industries; research area: ICT, design, creativity. Evaluation expert for Horizon 2020 Factory of the Future; research area: robotics, manufacturing.
  • 2014: Evaluation expert for FET Horizon 2020; research area: cognition beyond problem solving.
  • 2012, 2013: Evaluation expert and rapporteur for the Research for SMEs and Research for SME Associations programme within Framework 7 of the European Commission.
  • 2012: Evaluation expert for the CoFUND programme within Framework 7 of the European Commission – evaluation of Marie Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes (COFUND).
  • 2009: Evaluation expert for the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) programme within Framework 7 of the European Commission – evaluation of Integrated Projects (IP), Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP), Networks of Excellence (NoE) and Coordinating Actions (CA); research area: intelligent information management.
  • 2009: Evaluation expert for the Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme of the EU; research area: Mechanical, Systems and Manufacturing Engineering.
  • 2006 - 2009: Expert evaluator of proposals for the Leonardo da Vinci programme of the European Commission; research area: e-learning and e-training.
  • 2003 - 2006: Expert reviewer for Framework 6 of the European Commission; evaluating projects in the area of robotics and web-based applications.
  • 2002 - 2006: Evaluation expert for the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme within Framework 6 of the European Commission – evaluation of Integrated Projects (IP) and Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP) proposals in the area of e-government, e-business and networked organisations.
  • 2003 - 2006: Invited project reviewer (FP6 IST).

Refereeing for research councils and scientific programmes: Overseas Research Councils

  • 2020: Panel member for Singapore's Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Programme.
  • 2019: Proposal evaluator for the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore, Slovakian Research Agency
  • 2018: Proposal evaluator for the the Research Foundation – Flanders, Reviewer of the SMACC Centre, VTT and TU Tampere, Finland
  • 2017: Policy adviser at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology; innovation area: Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) in Added-Value Manufacturing. Evaluation expert of Horizon 2020 5.ii. Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing; H2020 mid-term review. Focus: Private-Public Partnerships.
  • 2016: Proposal evaluator and Panel member for the Austrian Research Council FFG; research area: Manufacturing Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems.
  • 2012 - 2014: Proposal evaluator for Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT), the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; research area: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems.
  • 2007 - 2010: Proposal evaluator for the National Science Fund of Bulgaria; research area: ICT.
  • 2007 - 2012: Proposal evaluator for the Georgian National Science Foundation; research area: IT, AI, e-learning.
  • 2006: Proposal evaluator for the Slovak Research and Development Agency; research area: intelligent robotics.

Honours and awards

  • 2017: Visiting Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
  • 2017: Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University
  • 2015: Award for Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge Engineering Systems, awarded at KES 2015, Singapore
  • 2004: Donald Julius Groen Prize awarded by IMechE for a journal paper in the area of digital manufacturing and overall contribution to manufacturing
  • 1999: Literati Club Award awarded for a journal paper on computational modelling and robotics

Papers co-authored with her PhD students and Research Associates have received Best Paper Awards at SDM 2016, Chania, Greece, KES 2016, York, UK, KES 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan, and KES 2012, San Sebastian, Spain.

Professional memberships

  • 2017 - present: Member of the IEEE Task Force on Human-like Intelligence of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
  • 2016 - present: Member of IFAC Technical Committee on Human-Machine Systems (WG4.5).
  • 2015 - present: Member of IFIP Technical Committee on Computer Aided Innovation (WG5.4).
  • 2014 - present: IEEE Senior Member.
  • 2013 - present: Chair of the KES Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Society with more than 500 members. Member of the KES Executive Board (since 2010).
  • 2013-2015: Member of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force of the W3C Working Group on Protocols and Formats (PFWG).
  • 2011 - present: Member of the Institute of Leadership and Management; Awards in Practical Leadership for University Management (2013), and Leadership and Management for Research Team Leaders (2011).
  • 2010 - present: Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). Committee member of the Manufacturing and Management Section, East South Wales branch. IET Technical Assessor supporting the IET Registration and Standards Committee.
  • 2009 - present: Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE). Industrial Advisor appointed by the Professional Review Committee to help with assessment of applications. Member of the Panel of Assessors supporting the Academic Assessment Committee (AAC) and the Qualifications and Membership Board (QMB). Interviewer of CEng and FIMechE candidates (2010-2014).
  • 2007 - present: Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS).
  • 2006 - present: Chartered IT Professional (CITP).
  • 2004 - present: European Engineer (Eur.Ing.) chartered by FEANI, member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG).
  • 2003 - present: Chartered Engineer (CEng)

External Examiner

  • 2013 - 2018: External Examiner of 10 MSc programmes at Warwick Manufacturing Group, Warwick University: E-Business Management, Engineering Business Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, International Technology Management, Management for Business Excellence, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Process Business Management, Programme & Project Management, Service Management & Design, Supply Chain & Logistics Management.
  • 2012 - 2017: External Examiner of 3 MSc programmes at Brunel University: MSc Advanced Engineering Design, MSc Advanced Manufacturing Systems and MSc Packaging Technology Management.
  • 2009 - 2014: Award and Subject External Examiner of AS programmes (Mechanical, Mechanical and Manufacturing, and Marine Engineering) at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
  • 2005 - present: External Examiner of PhD students at the University of Lorraine, France (2017), Brunel University (2016), University of Reading, UK (2015), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (2014), Strasbourg, France (2014), Anna University, India (2015, 2012, 2011 and 3 in 2013), Bath University, UK (2012), Griffith University, Australia (2012), Deakin University, Australia (2010, 2009 and 2008), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2012, and 2 more in 2009), University of Rousse, Bulgaria (2009), Open University, UK (2007) and University of Seville, Spain (2006).

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

  • Additive layer manufacturing (metal)
  • AI and Robotics
  • Human-machine systems
  • Computational semantics

Supervised PhD Students: Current

  • Sijie Yu, Additive Manufacturing of Soft Magnetic Materials
  • Shuping Kang, Transfer of Skills for Ultrasound Examinations from Humans to Robots
  • Mumin Biyiklioğlu, Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Multi-Functional High Temperature Magnetic Alloys
  • Tong Tong, Human Intention Recognition and Prediction
  • Benjamin Mason, Postprocessing for Metal Additive Manufacturing
  • Awn Harbi Alghamdi, Decision Support for Remanufacturing.
  • Xiaodan Wang, Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction in Unstructured Environments

Past projects

Previous PhD students have successfully completed projects in Additive Manufacturing (2022, 2020, 2019 and 2017), Clinical Decision Support (2021, 2020, 2017 and 2015), Product Change Management (2017), Design for Intuitive Use (2016), Heterogeneous Networks (2016), Situational Awareness (2016), Human-Computer Interaction (2015), Decision Support for Sustainability (2015), Trademark Similarity Assessment (2015), Fit Manufacturing (2014), AI (2013), Diagnostic Support (2013), Semantic Clustering (2013), Reminiscence Support (2013), Risk Management (2013 and 2009), Semantic Retrieval (2012), Knowledge Engineering (2007), Information Retrieval using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (2006), and Machine Learning (2005).

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Semantics
  • Manufacturing engineering
University staff and alumni named as Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales

University staff and alumni named as Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales

08 May 2023

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ASTUTE 2020+ contributes £541 million to the Welsh economy

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Cardiff supports Foundation Industries green recovery research consortium

Cardiff supports Foundation Industries green recovery research consortium

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