Group Members

We are always looking for new students (PhD and MSc/MEng) and post-docs to join the team (see openings)

Director

Prof. Wen-Hua Chen

w.chen@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Professor in Autonomous Vehicles
    Expertise: Unmanned vehicle, situational awareness, decision making, disturbance observer, model predictive control
    Links: Homepage, View Google Scholar profile


Centre Academic Member

Dr. Matthew Coombes

m.j.coombes@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Lecture in Autonomous Vehicles
    Expertise: Autonomous vehicles which include unmanned aerial system forced landing, situational awareness, autonomous taxiing, mission planning optimization
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Jingjing Jiang

j.jiang2@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles
    Expertise: Shared-Control (i.e. Human-machine interactions), development of advanced driver assistant system (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, traffic control
    Links: Homepage

Dr. James Knowles

J.A.C.Knowles@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Senior Lecturer in Dynamics and Control
    Expertise: Applications of Numerical Continuation to investigations of engineering systems, mathematical modelling and analysis of dynamical systems, vehicle dynamics
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Chengyuan Liu

c.liu10@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Lecturer in Safety-Critical Control
    Expertise: Safety-critical control and intelligent control for autonomous vehicles and robots
    Links: Homepage

Prof. Cunjia Liu

c.liu5@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
    Expertise: Novel perception and decision algorithms for robotic and autonomous system and their applications in security, industry and agriculture domains
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Georgios Mavros

g.mavros@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Reader in Intelligent Mobility and Vehicle Dynamics
    Expertise: Thermo-mechanical and structural tyre modelling, tyre testing and model parameter identification, vehicle dynamics and control
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Thomas Steffen

t.steffen@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Reader in Control of Energy Systems
    Expertise: Electrification and control of hybrid vehicles, and the integration with the connected/autonomous vehicle
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Jun Yang

j.yang3@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Reader in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles
    Expertise: Disturbance observer, motion control, visual servoing, nonlinear control, and autonomous systems
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Yuanjian Zhang

y.y.zhang@lboro.ac.uk

    Title: Lecturer in Intelligent Electric Vehicles
    Expertise: New generation clean propulsion control and optimisation, digital modelling and simulation, intelligent transportation system and artificial intelligence (AI) in engineering practice.
    Links: Homepage


Research Associates

Dr. Shengkai Guo

s.guo2@lboro.ac.uk

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Dr. Rohit Nanavati

r.nanavati@lboro.ac.uk

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Dr. Pramod Pashupathy

p.pashupathy@lboro.ac.uk

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Dr. Guoqiang Tan

g.tan@lboro.ac.uk

    Education: PhD in
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Dr. Shuoyuan Xu

s.xu2@lboro.ac.uk

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Dr. Yuefei Zuo

y.zuo@lboro.ac.uk

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PhD Students

Edward Cefai

e.cefai@lboro.ac.uk

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Mal Fazliu

m.fazliu2@lboro.ac.uk

    Education: BA, MSc, MRes in
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Tim Glover

t.glover@lboro.ac.uk

    Education: BA, MSc, MRes in
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Zijian Ge

z.ge@lboro.ac.uk

    Education: MEng in
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Siyuan Li

s.li8@lboro.ac.uk

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Yimeng Li

y.li12@lboro.ac.uk

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Ben Marshall

b.sullivan@lboro.ac.uk

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Ben Sullivan

b.sullivan@lboro.ac.uk

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Siyang Tang

s.tang@lboro.ac.uk

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Tianxiao Yang

t.yang@lboro.ac.uk

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Yalei Yu

y.yu2@lboro.ac.uk

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    Research: Dual control for exploitation and exploration with applications on industrial robots.
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Zheyu Zhang

z.zhang8@lboro.ac.uk

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Alumni

Xinming Wang

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Dr. Xuefang Wang

Lecture in control engineering

    Education: PhD in control theory and control engineering
    Current Institute: University of Leicester
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Yang Liu

Lecture Lecturer in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

    Education: PhD in control science and engineering
    Current Institute: University of Huddersfield
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Callum Rhodes

Research associate

    Education: PhD in automotive engineering
    Current Institute: Imperial College London
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Dr. Yunda Yan

Lecture in robotics and AI

    Education: PhD in control science and engineering
    Current Institute: University College London
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Zhongguo Li

Lecture in robotics, control, communication and AI

    Education: PhD in electrical and electronic engineering
    Current Institute: University of Manchester
    Links: Homepage

Dr. Hyondong Oh

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    Current Institute: Ulsan National Institue of Science and Technology
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Dr. Sujit Baliyarasimhuni

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Dr. CRistiano Premebida

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Dr. Andy Pickering

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Dr. Bowen Lu

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Dr. Fanlin Meng

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Dr. James Dunthorne

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Dr. William Eaton

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Dr. Runxiao Ding

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Dr. Shuo Liu

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Dr. Jean Smith

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Dr. Michael Hutchinson

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Dr. Pawel Ladosz

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Dr. Yali Xu

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Prof. Yunfeng Cao

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Dr. Songyin Cao

Associate Researcher

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Dr. Zhenhua Zhao

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Dr. Hao Lu

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Prof. Zhengping Feng

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Dr. Kang Wu

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