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2025-01-27

Staffs

Dr Salman Ijaz

salman.ijaz@nottingham.edu.cn

Director of Control System Lab
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Control of Aerospace Systems
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=77HGe2UAAAAJ&hl

Salman Ijaz received the PhD Degree in Control Sciences and Control Engineering from Beihang University (BUAA) Beijing in 2018. He then joined Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) to pursue his post-doctoral studies where he worked for two years. He is currently serving as Assistant Professor in University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His area of interest includes modeling and fault tolerant control of aircraft system, sliding mode control, robust control, and unmanned aerial vehicles. He has six years of teaching experience in different public and private sector universities.

Dr Adam Rushworth

Adam.Rushworth@nottingham.edu.cn

Deputy Director of Control System Lab
Associate Professor in Materials and Manufacturing, PGCHE
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
Advanced Intelligent Manufacturing Research Group
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XvRnzQYAAAAJ&hl

Dr Adam Rushworth obtained his MEng in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics in 2011 from the University of Nottingham (UK), where he subsequently completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He conducted research as a Research Fellow as part of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in On-platform Repair and Manufacturing Technology, focusing on topics such as robotics for in-situ inspection, manufacture and repair, mechatronics and machining.

Adam has experience in the simulation, design, modelling, construction and control of robots and mechatronic systems for in-situ inspection and repair, parallel kinematic machine tools and surgical robots. He has developed a number of novel machines, including a new type of 3D printer for metals based on Droplet on Demand technology.

Major research interests:

Robotics
Mechatronics
Advanced Manufacturing Techniques
Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)
Laser Ablation
Metal Materials

Dr Chiew Foong Kwong

Chiew-Foong.Kwong@nottingham.edu.cn

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DiX0phAAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao

Dr Richard Amankwa Adjei

Richard-Amankwa.Adjei@nottingham.edu.cn

Assistant Professor of Aerospace Aerodynamics
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
Fluids and Thermal Engineering Research Group
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TshunUEAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao

Richard A. Adjei is an Assistant Professor at the School of Aerospace, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Prior to his appointment in 2022, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Turbomachinery Laboratory, Tsinghua University. He received his PhD in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics at Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2020. His research involves aerodynamic design and optimization with focus on the development of intelligent systems and models for aircraft and gas turbine design. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and associate member of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO).

Dr Donglei Sun

Donglei.Sun@nottingham.edu.cn

Assistant Professor of Aerospace Aerodynamics
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
Advanced Intelligent Manufacturing Research Group
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=C4EmdWMAAAAJ

Dr Ahmed Nasr Abdelwahed

Ahmed.Abdelwahed@nottingham.edu.cn

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=9cCVF5cAAAAJ

Research Students

Mengshen Yang

Mengshen.Yang@nottingham.edu.cn

PhD Student, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
DTP with Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Tianyi Chen

Tianyi.Chen@nottingham.edu.cn

PhD Student, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

Fuhua Jia

Fuhua.JIA@nottingham.edu.cn

PhD Student, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
DTP with Zhejiang University Ningbo Innovation Center.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Zz2ccJ4AAAAJ&hl

Junlin Xiao

junlin.xiao@nottingham.edu.cn

PhD Student, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

Liming Li

Liming.Li@nottingham.edu.cn

PhD Student, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
DTP with Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

He received the B.Eng. degree from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2020, and the M.Res. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023. From 2023 to 2025, he worked as a primary researcher with intelligent signal processing in iFlytek Research. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering with the University Nottingham Ningbo China.