Research

Research Interests

• Mechanical engineering: Design for additive manufacturing; Computer-aided tolerance design; Intelligent manufacturing; Product data representation; Product design, manufacturing, and measurement.
• Computer technologies: Artificial intelligence; Machine learning; Computational intelligence; Optimisation; Decision analysis; Ontology; Knowledge graph; Fuzzy sets; Aggregation operators; Category theory.

Research Funding

• 03/2025 – 03/2027: Royal Society International Exchanges Grant, IES\R3\243180, Design for additive manufacturing: An automatic concurrent approach, £12k. (Principal Investigator)
• 09/2024 – 08/2031: EPSRC Manufacturing Research Hub for a Sustainable Future, EP/Z53285X/1, The Future Advanced Metrology Hub for Sustainable Manufacturing, £12m. (Core Researcher)
• 03/2017 – 02/2024: EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub, EP/P006930/1, Future Advanced Metrology Hub, £11m. (Core Researcher)
• 06/2018 – 05/2022: EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship, EP/S001328/1, A semantic infrastructure for advanced manufacturing, £483k. (Core Researcher)