Academic Visitors

Interests

Nick Munro is interested in the design of products which deliver sustainability through elegance in form, efficiency in function and relevance in purpose. This applies to items ranging from new technology cutlery for airlines to innovative air quality monitoring systems for hospitals, hotels and commercial buildings.

Research

Aidan's research focuses on using deep learning to capture head-related transfer functions and, more generally, spatial acoustics and immersive audio. Aidan's research interests include speaker diarization and statistical signal processing for audio applications. More information about his current research projects can be found at: www.aidanhogg.uk.

Research

Pengfei endeavours to translate innovation from research achievement into impactful application with the spirit of enterprise, through collaboration with UK and international partners. Pengfei also directs and delivers Design Engineering seasonal schools, highlighting DE expertise in Extended Learning.

Research

Ali’s research includes the development and design of novel materials for additive manufacturing used in soilless cultivation, tissue engineering, medical implants and cancer biology. His research also includes the optimisation and design of advanced additive manufacturing techniques and technologies such as bioprinting and stereolithography.

Research

Laura's research focuses on integrating the support of basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) in technology design processes to foster user wellbeing and technology acceptance. She works closely with industry partners to improve their current design processes. Laura is also interested in understanding how basic psychological need frustration in technology interaction can lead to mental harm. Specifically, she is working on tools that can be applied by developers to assess whether their technologies can cause mental harm, for example by hindering users’ need for autonomy.

Research

Project Title:
Materials selection in the professional appliances industry

Interests:
- Materials Selection
- Materials Experience
- Sensory analysis test
- University–industry collaboration

Research

Project Title:
Study and development of novel soft robots for dexterous manipulation and grasping

Interests:
- Kinematics and Robot Design
- Manipulation
- Geometric Registration

Research

Project Title:
Towards Soft Interaction: Active Haptic Perception in Soft Continuum Robots

Interests:
- Robotics
- Dynamics
- Control Engineering 
- Morphological Computation

Research

Antony's research focuses on developing deep learning approaches to accelerate chemical imaging methods, like X-ray powder diffraction computed tomography, for operando experiments of functional materials and devices, using self-supervised neural networks for data reconstruction, denoising, super-resolution, and fast analysis.

Responsibilities

Yuan is a visiting researcher at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. Her studies focus on creativity, design cognition and neurocognition, product design, health intervention, and human-computer interaction.

Research

Haoyu is a visiting researcher in Dyson School of Design Engineering. His research interests include data-driven design, design theory and HCI.