Professors
PWH Chung
BSc (Eng) (Imperial College, London University, PhD, (University of Edinburgh), ACGI, FBCS
Professor of Computer Science
Dean, School of Science
Research Leader, Modelling and Reasoning Research Group
Appointments
- Member, EPSRC Peer Review College, 1995-1996, 2000-2005
- Committee Member and Treasurer, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2001-2004
- Editorial Board
- Member, Editorial Board: International Journal of Applied Intelligence, 1991-present
- Member, Editorial Board: Knowledge-based Systems Journal, 2001 - present
- Chairman, International Programme Committee, International Conference on Industrial Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 2003
- Invited keynote speaker for:
- International Open Forum, Advanced System for Safety and Loss Prevention of Industrial Complex, Okayama, Japan, January 2005
- Second International Conference on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations, Salford University, July 2001
- 8th International Workshop of the European Group for Structural Engineering Applications of AI, Loughborough University, July 2001
- Technical Director, Hazid Technologies Ltd, from 2002
- External Examiner, PhD, University of Nottingham, 2005
- External Examiner, PhD, Aberdeen University, 2004
- External Examiner, PhD, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2004
- External Examiner, PhD, Leeds University, Dept of Chemical Engineering, 2000
- External Examiner, PhD, York University, 2000
- External Examiner, PhD, Portsmouth Univeristy, 1999
- External Examiner, PhD, Murdoch University, Australia, 1996
- Member, EPSRC Peer Review College, 1995-1996, 2000-2005
- Panel Member, EPSRC, Basic Technology Research Programme, August 2003
- Committee Member, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2001-2004
- Member, BCS Membership Professional Review Panel 1993-2005
- External Assessor, Reader Appointment, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2005
- External Assessor, Chair Appointment, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2004
- External Assessor, Chair Appointment, Napier University, 2002
- External Assessor, Chair Appointment, VTT, Finland, 2000
- External Assessor, Reader Appointment, Staffordshire University, 2000
- Member, Editorial Board: International Journal of Applied Intelligence, 1991-present
- Member, Editorial Board: Knowledge-based Systems Journal, 2001-present
- Chairman, International Programme Committee, International Conference on Industrial Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 2003
- Chairman, Organising Committee, Workshop on Representing Design Rationale, Artificial Intelligence in Design 1994
- Chairman, International Programme Committe, International Conference on Industrial Engineering Applications on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 1993
- Member, International Programme Committee, International Conference on Industrial Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001.
- Referee, Expert Systems Conference, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
- Invited Fellow, Okayama University, Japan, July 2000
- Invited Keynote Speaker, International Open Forum, Advanced System for Safety and Loss Prevention of Industrial Complex, Okayama, Japan, January 2005
- Invited Keynote Speaker, Second International Conference on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations, Salford University, July 2001
- Invited Keynote Speaker - 8th International Workshop of the European Group for Structural Engineering Applications of AI, Loughborough University, July 2001
- Invited Keynote Speaker, Chinese Automation and Computer Science Conference in UK, 2000
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 2004
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Department of Computer Science, Nottingham University, 2002
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Imperial College, Centre for Process Systems Engineering
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Leeds University, Dept of Chemical Engineering
- Invited Seminar Speaker, York University
- Invited Seminar Speaker, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Queens University, Belfast
- Invited Seminar Speaker, Staffordshire University
- External Examiner, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2004/2005-2006/2007
- External Examiner, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, 2004/2005-2006/2007
- External Examiner, Department of Computer Science, Salford University, 2000/2001-2003/2004
- Short-term consultant, KBS Project, Advantica Tech 2001
- BSI Prolog Standardisation Group, 1987-1991
RJ Dawson
BSc, MPhil (Nottingham), CEng, FBCS, CITP
Professor of Knowledge Management
Deputy Head of Department
Associate Dean Teaching, School of Science
Member of the Knowledge Management Research Group
Type of Role
- Keynote Seminar: "Knowledge Management Implementation Problems and How to Overcome Them," Software Quality Management conference (SQM), Stafford, March 2007
- External Advisor, London South Bank University Review of Computer Science, 2007
- Invited Guest Lecture, Future Challenges for Records Management in the Public Sector, Interactive Business Events, London 2007
- Conference Committee, International E-Commerce Conference, Barcelona, 2006
- Conference Co-Chair, Software Quality Management conference, SQM2007
- External Advisor, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, Review of Project Based Learning in the Department of Systems Innovation and Informatics, 2006
- External Advisor, Keele University, Quality Audit of Computer Science, 2006
- Invited research seminar, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, 2006
- Invited lectures and project organiser, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, 2006
- Fellow of the British Computer Society from 2005
- Conference Co-Chair for the Software Quality Management conference, SQM2006
- Panel Chair and Session Chair, Software Quality Management conference, SQM2005
- External Examinar for MPhil at Keele University, 2005
- Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Annual Conference of the Information Resource Management Association (2005-2006)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for VINE: The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (since 2003)
- Conference co-chairman for the Software Quality Management conference, SQM 2001
- External Examiner MSc by Research, Limerick Institute of Technology, (2001)
- Member of Computing and IT Consultative Committee, Loughborough College (since 1998)
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Empirical assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE (since 2002)
- Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Software Quality Management Conference, SQM (since 1998)
- Member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Conference of Software Process Improvement, Research and Education, INSPIRE, since 1998
- Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Annual Conference of the Information Resource Management Association (2002-2003)
- External Moderator, Access course in Computing and Information Systems, Loughborough College (1998-2001)
- Invited speaker, DARP Workshop, 2003
- Invited speaker at the Psychology of Programming Interest Group 1st postgraduate workshop, 1997
- Member of Nottingham University Standing Committee of Convocation (1987-1996)
- Session chair, Business Innovation in the Knowledge Economy (2003). Panel chair, panel member and session chair at the Software Quality Management conference, SQM 2000
- Session chair at the Psychology of Programming Interest Group 1st postgraduate workshop, 1997
- Session chair a the Psychology of Programming Interest Group workshop, PPIG'99
- Session chair at the Software Quality Management conference, SQM'99
- Session chair at the International Conference of Software Process Improvement, Research and Education INSPIRE'98 and INSPIRE'99
CJ Hinde
BSc (Bristol), PhD (Brunel), MACM
Professor of Computational Intelligence
Leader of the Intelligent and Interactive Systems Research Division (IIS)
- Keynote speaker at 6th International Workshop on Intuitioniostic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets, October 5th, 2007, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- Keynote speaker at 7th International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generlized Nets, October 5th, 2008, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- Keynot speaker at 8th International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets, October 16th, 2009, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 2009
- External Examiner PhD, Nanyang University, Singapore (2005)
- External Examiner, BSc, Management and Information Technology, Hull University (1998-2002)
- External Examiner, PhD, University of Bristol, Department of Engineering Mathematics (2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006*2)
- External Examiner, PhD, University of Warwick, Department of Manufacturing Systems (2002, 2003)
- External Examiner, EngD, University of Warwick, Department of Manufacturing Systems (2003, 2005)
- External Examiner, MSc, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, School of Business Systems (2003, 2005)
- External Examiner, PhD, University of Nottingham at Trent, Department of Computer Science (2004)
- External Examiner, PhD, Derby University, Department of Computer Science (2004*2)
- External Examiner, PhD, Glamorgan University (2004, 2006)
- External Examiner, MSc, University of Warwick, Department of Manufacturing Systems (2005)
- External Examiner, MSc, Swinburne University, Australia (2006)
- External Examiner, PhD, Essex University (2006)
- External Examiner, PhD, Warwick University (2006)
- External Examiner, PhD, Warwick University (2007)
- External Examiner, MSc, Warwick University (2007)
- External Examiner, MSc, Birkbeck University (2008)
- External Examiner, EngD, Warwick Universtiy (2008)
- External Examiner, BSc, Keele University (2009-)
- External Examiner, PhD, Anglia-Ruskin University (2010)
- External Examiner, PhD, Aberystwyth University (2010)
- External Examiner, PhD, Bristol University (2010)
- External Examiner, PhD, De Montfort University (2010)
- External Examiner, PhD, Aberystwyth University (2011)
- External Examiner, PhD, Portsmouth University (2011)
- External Examiner, PhD, Warwick University (2011)
- External Examiner, PhD, Cranfield University (2011)
- External Examiner, MSc, Tanta University, Egypt (2011)
- External Examiner, PhD, Essex University (2012)
- Internal Examiner, PhD, Loughborough University*2 (2007)
- Internal Examiner, PhD, Loughborough University*3 (2008)
- Internal Examiner, PhD, Loughborough University*4 (2009)
- External Validator, BSc, all 7 Undergraduate Computer Science Degrees, Luton University (2002)
- External Validator, MSc, Computer Science, Luton University (2002)
- Programme co-chair, IEA/AIE 2003
- Member Programme Committee UKCI 2003
- Member Programme Committee UKCI 2004, 2005
- Member Programme Committee IEA/AIE2005
- Member Programme Committee AI-2008, 2008
- Member Programme Committee IEA/AIE2009, 2009
- Member Programme Committee IASTED ASC-2009, 2009
- Member Programme Committee AI-2009-2010 (2009-10)
- Member Programme Committee NCTA/IJCCI-2010 (2010)
- Member Programme Committee IASTED ASC-2009 (2010)
- Member Programme Committee IASTED ASC-2010 (2011)
- Member Programme Committe NCTA/IJCCI-2011 (2011)
- Member Technial Committee FUZZIEEE, 2007
- Member Technical Committee IPMU, 2008
- Member Technical Committee WCCI, 2008
- Session Chair, Knowledge Based Computer Systems, KBCS200, Mumbai, India
- Session Chair, UKCI 2003
- Session Chair at the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Chair UKCI 2004
- External Validator, MSc Computing, University of Central Lancashire (2003)
- External Validator, MSc Computer Networks, University of Central Lancashire (2003)
- Invited Speaker, Advanced Computing Research Centre, Bristol University (2002)
- Member EPSRC peer review college 2003-2005
- Member EPSRC peer review college 2010 - (2010)
- Visiting Fellow, Engineering Mathematics, Bristol University (2002-2003)
- Guest Editor Special Issue of International Journal of Applied Intelligence Member Programme Committee IEA/AIR200
Referee for
- Knowledge Based Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- Computer Journal
SH Yang
BSc, MSc (Petroleum, China), PhD (Zhejiang, China), FinstMC, CEng, Senior Member IEEE
Professor of Networks and Control
Leader of the Networks, Communications and Control Systems Research Division
(NCCS)
Research Co-ordinator
Visiting Professorships
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2005-present
- Central China Normal University, China, 2001-present
Awards/Prizes
- Received the Creativity Award at the 2005 International Exhibition Contest on DSP Creative Designs held in Taiwan for the research project 'Remote Monitoring and Control of Intelligent Home Environments'
Editorial Board/Editor of Journals
- Associate Editor: International Journal of Systems Science http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/00207721.html
- Associate Editor: International Journal of Automation and Computing http://www.ijac.net/
- Editorial Board Member: Journal of the Institute of Measurement and Control
- Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Information and Computer Security http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE+ijics
- Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijamechs
- Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Process System Engineering
- Special Issue Editor: International Journal of Information Technology, 2006
- Special Issue Editor: International based control for the Journal of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 28(1), 2005
- Special Issue Editor: Mobile agent technologies applied to remote control for the Journal of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 38(10), 2005
Professional Bodies Memberships
- Apointed Senior Member of the IEEE
- Appointed Fellow of the Institute of Measurement & Control
- Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, 2006-2009
- Member of the Advisor College of British Council Higher Education Link Programme, 2001-2004
- Chairman of the East Midlands Section of the Institute of Measurement & Control
- Member of the Executive Committe (since 2000). Selected President (2005-2006) of the Chinese Automation & Computer Society in the UK (CACSUK)
Conferences Organised
- Member of the Programme Committee of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Taiwan, October 2006
- Member of the Programme Committee of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Florida, USA, April 2006
- Member of the Programme Committee of 2006 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Los Angeles, USA, April 2006
- Member of the Programme Committee of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, Xi'an, China, December 2005
- Member of the Programme Committee of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Hawaii, USA, October 2005
- Member of the Programme Committee of the 9th International Conference on Internet & Multimedia Systems & Applications, Hawaii, USA, August 2005
- Member of the Programme Committee of the 7th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications on Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Canada, May 2004
- Web-chair of the 6th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Loughborough, UK, May 2003
- Chair of the research student workshop on measurement and control technologies of East Midlands six universities, Loughborough, May 2003
- Member of the Programme Committee of the 1st workshop on Internet based robot, Reading, May 2003
- General Chair of the 6th Chinese Automation & Computer Science Conference in the UK, Loughborough, September 2000
External Examining
- PhD External Examiner, Leeds University, 11/2002
- MPhil External Examiner, Essex University, 7/2003
- PhD External Examiner, Liverpool John Moore University, 6/2005
- PhD External Examiner, Leeds University, 6/2005
- PhD External Examiner, King's College, 8/2005
- MSc by Research External Examiner, Cranfield University, 11/2005
Paper Reviews
- International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
- International Journal of Information and Computer Society
- IEE Proceedings Communication
- IEE Proceedings Science, Measurement & Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- IEEE Transactions on SMC Part A, Part B, Part C
- Software Experience & Practice
- Knowledge based systems
- International Journal of Automation and Computing
- International Journal of Information Technology
- International Journal of Systems Science
- Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Asian Journal of Control
- Transactions of the IChemE
- Transactions of the InstMC
- Control Engineering Practice
- Computers & Chemical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering Science
- Journal of Loss Prevention in the Industrial Processes
Book Review
- "Java Internet Computing by Example," Springer-Verlag, 2004
Keynotes and Invited Seminars
- Control over the Internet and Control of the Internet, University of California, Irvine, USA, 8/2005
- Internet based control systems, Petroleum University, China, 2/2005
- Real-time software remote maintenance, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, 1/2004
- Model based predictive control over the Internet, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 7/2003
- Real-time Internet, 12th National Conference on Networking, Wuhan, China, 12/2002
Readers
HE Bez
BSc (Wales), MSc, DPhil (Oxford)
Reader in Geometric Computation
Leader of the Theoretical Computer Science Research Divison
Co-Director of the the Parallel Algorithms and Architectures Research Centre (PARC)
- Best paper prize for: Bez, H.E. and Wetzel, T.J., ''Constructive Path Algebra - A Tool for Design, Parametrisation and Visualisation'' , Proceedings of Eurographics UK , IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002, pp. 97-104, ISBN: 0-7695-1518-5.
- Co-editor of proceedings, local organiser and session chair for: IMA Conference Series, Mathematics of Surface XI, Sept 2005.
- External assessor for new MSc in Computing at Portsmouth University 2003
- External assessor for new BSc in Computing and Information Systems at Portsmouth University 2004
- PhD examiner, Cranfield University 2004
- External Examiner, PhD, De Montfort University
- External Examiner, MSc, De Montfort University
- External Examiner, MSc, TU Bielefeld, Germany
- External PhD Supervisor for the Open University
Dr EA Edirisinghe
BSc Eng (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka), MSc (Loughborough), PhD (Loughborough), M.I.E.E.
Reader in Digital Imaging
Head of Department
- Member, EPSRC College of Peers, 2003/2004
- IPC Member of the following IASTED International Conferences: Signal & Image Processing 2002, Circuits, Signals & Systems 2003, Visualization, Imaging & Image Processing 2003
- Member of the IASTED technical committee on Image Processing 2001-2004
- Session Chair, Image & Video Coding Applications & Implementation, IEEE, ICICS 2001 Conference, Singapore
- Member of the International Program Committee for the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP-2002)
Senior Lecturers
Dr PA Lawson
BSc, PhD (Leicester)
- Postgraduate Supervisor in 'Computing for Commerce and Industry', the Open University
Dr CHC Machin
BSc, PhD, MBCS, CEng, CITP
Senior Lecturer
- Governor, RNIB College, Loughborough, 2000-present
- Associate Governor and Member of Audit Committee, Loughborough College, 1999-present
- External Examiner (MSc), University of Wales, Swansea, 2000-2004
- Member of Doctoral Thesis Committee, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherland, April 2010
Dr IW Phillips
BSc, PhD (Manchester), MACM, FBCS, CEng, CITP
Senior Lecturer
- Reviewer for Sirocco 2004
- Session Chair at ASMTA 2005
- Session Chair at Creativity and Cognition 2002
- Session Chair at UKCI 2004
- Reviewer IEE Proceedings on Communications
- Reviewer Software Practise and Experience
- Invited seminar at UCL, London, 2004
- Invited seminar at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, 2003
- Invited talk at RIPE49 Workshop (RÈseaux IP EuropÈens), Manchester, Sept 2004
- External Examiner, Buckingham (MPhil)
- External Examiner, Kingston University (PhD)
- External Examiner Oxford Brookes (PhD)
- External Examiner Salford University (MPhil)
- External Examiner BME Budapest (PhD)
- Reviewer IEEE IM99 Conference
- Reviewer IEEE NONS2000 Conference
- Reviewer IEEE IM01 Conference
- Reviewer IEEE ICNSC 06 Conference
- Reviewer ISMICT08
- Reviewer and Co-Chair PMECT07 and 08
- UK representative on the Management Committee for EU COST Action 295 Dynamo
Lecturers
A Sălăgean
MSc, Bucharest (Romania), PhD, Linz (Austria)
Lecturer
Appointments
- Programme Committee Member for IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding (2005, 2007)
- External Examiner at Royal Holloway University of London (BSc and MSc degrees), 2007-ongoing
- External Examiner (PhD), De Montfort University
- Reviewer for ESPRC
- Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
- Referee for the journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Discrete Mathematics, AAECC, The Computer Journal, Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, International Journal of applied Intelligence, and for the Conference AAEECC-15
- Invited seminar speaker at Royal Holloway University of London, University of Kent at Canterbury, University of Leicester, University of Limoges (France)
- Member of: London Mathematical Society (LMS)
