Meet the team

Iveta Eimontaite is a lecturer in Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors at Cranfield University. Her work mainly focuses on behavioural and cognitive aspects of Human-Technology Interaction with a particular interest in user needs and requirements for the successful integration of technology within the workplace and social environments. Furthermore, she is interested in assessing technology comfort and psychological safety via the use of physiological and neural data. [Read more]

Fahad Khan is a Research Assistant in Intelligent Automation at Cranfield University. He graduated from Cranfield University in Robotics Engineering and undergraduate in Mechatronics Engineering. His area of interests are Human Robot Collaboration, Industrial Automation, Robotics Control and Artificial Intelligence. [Read more]

Anne-Marie studied Cultural Anthropology (MA) and Social Informatics (PhD) at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining Cranfield University in April 2020, Anne-Marie held research positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, and the Rathenau Institute in The Hague. Anne-Marie’s work has been supported by a range of funders including the European Commission (FP7, H2020), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the University of Oxford’s Fell Fund. She held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship exploring e-democracy technologies and the problem of public trust (2007-2009).… [Read more]

Professor Angela Daly PhD SFHEA is an international leader in the regulation and governance of new (digital) technologies, and in the theory and practice of knowledge exchange. She is Professor of Law & Technology in the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science and Dundee Law School. She works across data protection, intellectual property, competition law, network industry regulation and human rights law from transnational socio-legal perspectives. She is the author of Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap (Hart 2016), Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution (Palgrave 2016) and is co-editor of the open access book Good Data… [Read more]

Dr Riccardo Vecello Segate is an international legal researcher and policy advisor specialised in complex law & technology problems and transnational disputes, with a focus on the EU, China, and India. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Engineering (Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science) and a fixed-term Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Dundee. [Read more]

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Dr. Cong Niu is a project Research Associate based in University of Strathclyde in the Department of Design Manufacturing & Engineering Management.  Dr. Cong Niu has worked as Research Assistant for multiple robotic related projects including Quadcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Rovers, and Industrial robotic arms. He has 7 years of experience as a Researcher during and after his graduation of his Ph.D. [Read more]

Professor Darek Ceglarek is EPSRC Star Recruit Research Chair at WMG, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (UK) and a CIRP Fellow. Previously, he was Professor with tenure in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA in 1994. His research focusses on smart manufacturing, closed-loop quality control; and data mining/AI for root cause analysis across design, manufacturing, and service.  He has mentored numerous post-doctoral fellows, and PhD and master’s students.   Several of his former post-doctorate fellows and graduated PhD students are professors… [Read more]

Dr Pasquale Franciosa is Associate Professor and Head of Laser Beam Welding Applications Lab at WMG, the University of Warwick. Published 90+ papers (H-Index 20) and 3 patents, received five best-paper awards and one industrial award. He is regular reviewer of major international journals in smart manufacturing systems, engineering design and optimisation, sensors and laser material processing. Member of the editorial board of the ASTM Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Journal. PI/co-I for several funded projects (both industry, UKRI and EU), which created trust and reputation in solutions for laser beam welding. He is currently focusing on integrating Industry 4.0 tools and robotics technology for autonomous laser beam… [Read more]

Dr. Dan Dai is a machine learning researcher at the Digital Lifecycle Management Group. Her core expertise is data analysis and mining, designing models to feature learning for different tasks. She currently joins the EPSRC project 'MSI - Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial Robotics'. The main role is to utilize machine learning, cloud computing, real-time optimization for the temporal signals and spatial data, make quality control in the assembly process, create a closed-loop in-process digital twin, augmented and virtual reality technologies for the decision studio for HRC system. [Read more]