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Biography

Education

• Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching, Â鶹Íø, UK (2009)
  
• PhD Mechanical and Marine Engineering, , UK (2004)
• MSc Electrical Engineering, , Saudi Arabia (2001)
• BE Electrical Engineering, , Pakistan (1999)

• Senior Lecturer, Energy, Power and Intelligent Control, QUB (2016 to date)
• Lecturer, Intelligent Systems and Control, QUB (2007 to date)
• Research Fellow in Autonoums Vehicle Control, School of Engineering, University of Plymouth, UK (2005 - 2007)
• Research and Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia (1999 - 2001)
• Research and Development Engineer, Laser Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd., Pakistan (1998 - 1999)

• Control algorithms development for unmanned systems including robotics
  
• Collision avoidance strategies for unmanned aerial and marine vehicles with emphasis on standardised procedures
• System identification and modelling of electro-mechanical systems

• Principle Investigator, InnovateUK funded project, Robust MAchine eXecutable Colregs for Marine Autonomous Systems (MAXCMAS), August 2015 (£1.27m) in collaboration with Rolls Royce, Atlas Electronik UK, Lloyd’s Register and Warsash Maritime Academy, Southampton Solent University
  
• Co-Investigator, EPSRC funded project, "", December 2012 (£124,539, EP/K029371/1)
• Principle Investigator, EPSRC funded project, "" February 2011 - September 2012 (£101k, )

• Member, EPSRC Peer Review College
• Member, IFAC T7.2 Technical Committee on Marine Systems
• Local Organising Chair, , Belfast, Aug/Sep 2016.
• Member IET (MIET)
• UK Publications Chair and IPC Member, (ICSEE) Conference, Shanghai, China, September 2012
• Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Committee member, IEEE SMC Chapter, Ireland
• Foreign Editor, Asian Journal of Engineering Science and Technology
• UK Publications Chair and IPC Member, , China, September 2010
  
• UK Publications Chair and IPC Member, , China, September 2010
• Steering and programme committee member of the since 2008
• Reviewer for International Journal of Control
• Reviewer for IMechE Proceedings
  
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  
• Reviewer for International Journal of Systems Science
• Chaired a session in the IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Ancona, Italy in 2006
  

• Michael Richey medal by the for authoring the best journal paper published in the Journal of Navigation in 2007 ()
• Denny Medal by the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) for authoring the best journal paper published in the Journal of Marine Science and Environment in 2004.
  
• Fully funded EPSRC studentship to pursue a PhD program at the University of Plymouth
• Fully funded by IMarEST, UK to present an invited paper at the World Maritime Technology Conference in San Francisco in 2003
• Research and Teaching Assistantship at KFUPM

• (Marine Collision Avoidance)
  
• (Cooperative Control of Robotic Manipulators)
  
• aka Lesley (Formation Control Algorithms for Unmanned Vehicles)
  
• Ziqi Yang aka Wallace

Past Students

• Aolei Yang aka Bert (Formation Control Algorithms for UAVs)
• Okechukwu Ihemadu aka Okey (Intelligent Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping)