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Faculty of Engineering and Technology November 2019 FET RESEARCH NEWSLETTER EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS SECURED (THRESHOLD: £10K) ARI Dr. Owen McAree. EPSRC GCRF Global Research £460k allocated to LJMU, ‘Probing the Cosmological Translation Awards, October 2019 – March 2021. Universe with Lensing, CMB and 21cm Data, Dr. BEST . STFC Ernest Rutherford Joachim Harnois-Deraps US $600k allocated to LJMU, Development of non- Fellowship, 2020-2025. invasive diagnostic tool for lymphatic filariasis £575k allocated to LJMU, Using drones to protect microfilariae detection Dr. Patryk Kot (PI), Prof. Andy biodiversity and spur economic growth in Madagascar, Shaw and Dr. Magomed Muradov. FET as Co-I in a Prof. Steve Longmore (PI), Dr. Paul Fergus, Dr. Carl total grant $1.3m, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Chalmers, Dr. Fred Bezombes, Prof. Serge Wich and Medicine. Gates Foundation, 2019-2022. AWARDS/PRIZES/KEYNOTE ADDRESSES (AT RECOGNISED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES) (APM/PROTECT) Prof. Paulo Lisboa (APM) and Dr. Nanotechnology”. Dr. Kolivand also delivered a keynote Hoshang Kolivand (PROTECT) both delivered speech at International Conference on Engineering keynote presentations at the Developments in eSystems Technology & Applied Sciences entitled “Current and Engineering (DeSE) conference, Kazan, Russia, 7-10 Future of New Immersive Technology”, Dubai, October 2019. Prof. Lisboa’s address was titled “A September 18th -19th 2019 UAE, 2019. Machine Learning in Sports Analysis” and Dr. Kolivand’s (LOOM) Prof. Jin Wang delivered a keynote address presentation was titled “A Glimpse of Future Immersive “Risk-based decision making in design and operation of Technologies using Virtual and Augmented Reality”. large engineering systems under uncertainties” at the 11th (PROTECT) Dr. Hoshang Kolivand delivered a International Conference on Information Management keynote speech at International Nanotechnology and and Engineering (ICIME 2019) & 2019 2nd International Nanoscience Conference (OLC Nanotechnology-2019), Conference on Information Hiding and Image Chicago, USA September 23-24, 2019 entitled “Current Processing (IHIP 2019), British Computer Society, and Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality in London, 19-21 September 2019. RESEARCH IMPACT GENERATING ACTIVITIES (ARI) Dr. Claire Burke was an invited speaker at ‘New The event took place at the ExCel in London, 15th-18th Scientist Live’, a major event in public engagement for October. STEM subjects, to talk about "Using drones for good". REF UPDATE An internal review of research outputs is taking place in • UoA 11 Computer Science and Informatics (Prof. Qi November 2019. If you have any questions, please Shi) contact your relevant UoA coordinator: • UoA 12 Engineering (Prof. Jin Wang) • UoA 13 Architecture, Built Environment and • UoA 9 Physics (Prof. Paolo Mazzali) Planning (Prof. Andy Shaw). EXTERNAL COLLABORATION (EEE) Dr. Qian Zhang welcomed Zhi Yuan of Wuhan In September 2019, Prof. Qi Shi welcomed three visitors University of Technology School of Navigation, China, from Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam: Phai for a twelve month research visit. Vu Dinh, Dr. Tran Nguyen Ngoc and Tu Tran Tuan. (GERI) Dr. Guangming Zhang is hosting three visitors Dr. Thar Shamsa hosted Dr. Asad Khattak of Zayed from University Malaysia Perlis. Dr. Rita Mohd Said, Nur University, UAE, for a collaborative visit in October Syahirah Mohamad Zaimi and Marliza Binti Mostapha 2019. will work with GERI until the end of 2019. Dr. Hoshang Kolivand organized the first international (PROTECT) Dr. Rajen Vohra of Data Analytics & conference on Applied computing to support industry: Machine Intelligence Research Group, India, has Innovation and technology (ACRIT 2019), September commenced a twelve month collaborative visit hosted by 15th – 16th, 2019, Ramadi, Iraq as co-chair of the Prof. Abir Hussain. conference. NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS (ARI) Burke, C., McWhirter, P., Veitch-Michaelis, J., selectors,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 40, No. 8, McAree, O., Pointon, H., Wich, S. and Longmore, S. pp.1269-1272, DOI. (2019) "Requirements and Limitations of Thermal (GERI) Jamal, M., and Morgan, M.N. 2019. Drones for Effective Search and Rescue in Marine and ‘Characterisation of Material Properties Based on Inverse Coastal Areas", Drones, 2019, 3(4), 78, DOI. Finite Element Modelling’, Inventions, 4(3), 40, DOI. (EEE) Chai, Z., Zhang, W., Hatem, F., Zhang, (LOOM) Wan, C., Yan, X., Zhang, D., Qu, Z. and Freitas, J. F. P., Marsland, J., et al. (2019) Yang, Z. (2019) “An advanced fuzzy Bayesian-based “Dependence of switching probability on operation FMEA approach for assessing maritime supply chain conditions in GexSe1-x ovonic threshold switching risks, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 125, pp. 222-240, DOI. OTHER ITEMS (PROTECT) Dr. Alessandro Raschella is organizing, (LOOM) Dr. Dimitrios Paraskevadakis and LOOM as Guest Editor, a Special Issue of the journal Computer PGR Gbako Shekwoyemi delivered an invited Networks, “Special Issue in Smart Spectrum and Radio presentation at the Port of London on 26th September Resource Management for Future 5G Networks”. The The presentation was titled “Current research in the field call is open for submission. of Inland Waterways Transport and Logistics”, and formed part of the EU project ST4W UK study day. Volume 5, Issue 6 FET Research, Scholarship & Knowledge Transfer (November 2019) Committee Faculty of Engineering & Technology (Contact: [email protected]) Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK Faculty of Engineering and Technology September 2019 FET RESEARCH NEWSLETTER EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS SECURED (THRESHOLD: £10K) BEST £120k allocated to LJMU, development of an innovative flexible manufacturing product life cycle £25k allocated to LJMU, Corrosion Biokiln, Dr. Ana management (PLM) system, Armada Bras. Institution of Civil Engineers Dr. Rob Darlington, Dr. Research and Development Enabling Fund, 2019-2020. Thar Baker (PROTECT), and Dr. Mark Taylor (PROTECT). Innovate UK KTP with AMF Precision LOOM & MEMARC Engineering, 2019-2021. £90k allocated to LJMU, Correlating manufacturing GERI strategies to material performance in Laser Powder Bed €170k allocated to LJMU, ReACTIVE Too: Reliable Fusion of Titanium 6Al-4V, Dr. Sam Tammas- Electronics for Tomorrow’s Active Systems, Williams. US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Prof. 2019-2022. Dave Harvey. H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE), 2019-2023. AWARDS/PRIZES/KEYNOTE ADDRESSES (AT RECOGNISED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES) (EEE) Prof. E. Levi has been appointed as a Guest Prof. Jian Zhang has been appointed as an honorable Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), professor at the Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University. Harbin, China. Prof. Levi delivered an Invited Keynote, “Understanding lifetime prediction methodology for titled "Electric vehicle charging technologies" at the In0.53Ga0.47As nFETs under Positive Bias Temperature IEEE Int. Conf. on Smart Technologies EUROCON, Instability (PBTI) condition” by Dr. Zhigang Ji, Xiong held in Novi Sad, Serbia, in July 2019. He also delivered Zhang, and Prof. Jian Zhang was selected as the best an Invited Keynote, "Charging options for electric paper by IEEE 26th International Symposium on the vehicles," at the Int. Conf. on Electric Machines and physical and failure analysis of integrated circuits 2019. Systems ICEMS, held in Harbin, China, in August 2019. RESEARCH IMPACT GENERATING ACTIVITIES (EEE) Dr. Obrad Dordevic has established Prof. Jian Zhang, Dr. Rui Gao, Dr. Zhigang Ji, and collaboration with LION Smart GmbH, Munich, Prof. Weidong Zhang have delivered an invited tutorial Germany, through consultancy work on the project: at the IEEE 26th International Symposium on the “Demonstration of BIPED for aerospace applications”. physical and failure analysis of integrated circuits July The project value is £13k, duration 6 months. 2019. IMPORTANT ITEMS FOR POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERS INCLUDING PHD COMPLETIONS AND RESEARCH INITIATIVES AT FET The Doctoral Academy are currently building a bespoke October 2019, most of the paper-based forms (RD9R research student progression system, eDoc. From through to RD45), will be replaced by an online approval process. It will mean that postgraduate research records their training portfolios, to set up and record supervisory will be easily accessible by all those involved with the meetings and to review goals and timelines. project, saving time and reducing the risk of uncoordinated records in different systems. eDoc will also enable researchers and their supervisors to create INTRODUCTION TO NEWLY APPOINTED RESEARCH ACTIVE MEMBERS (BEST) Dr Tina Marolt Cebasek is a Lecturer at CETIC where he led the capacity-building programme of Department of Civil Engineering. She worked as Cyber Incident Response. He is the founding member of Research Fellow at University of Leeds and as Research NESSI (Network European Software and Services Associate at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh where Initiative) and was Vice President and Board Member of she worked on full scale laboratory testing of ballasted ISSA-BE (Information Systems Security Association – and concrete slab track for high speed trains, and Brussels European Chapter). Syed is currently a Subject numerical modelling of geosynthetic and preforms Matter Expert (Cyber Security Technologist) at British systems for railway track geo-structures. Dr. Marolt was Computer Society (BCS)