Meet the team

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]

Anand Mohan is a CAE simulations and VR/AR researcher at the Digital Lifecycle Management Research Group. His core research focus is multi-physics FEM/CAE simulation, process monitoring, closed loop control, real-time simulation and VR/AR technology. Currently, he is working on the EPSRC funded project which aims to advance smart manufacturing by eliminating barriers and accelerating widespread use of collaborative robotics technology [Read more]