School seminars
We hold regular seminars in the school to discuss a wide range of exciting and thought-provoking research topics.
Speakers include both members of staff and invited guests. If you are interested in attending one of our seminars, please contact enginresearch@cardiff.ac.uk stating the date and title of the event, and why it interests you.
| Date | Event | Guest speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 October 2023 11:00 | Engineering Net Zero | Professor Meysam Qadrdan | Engineering Net Zero (MSc) at Cardiff University. Open to home and international students. |
| 26 April 2023 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series 2023 | Professor Cathy Holt Cardiff University School of Engineering | Experience with REF2021 review panel UoA 12 Panopto link |
| 19 April 2023 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series 2023 | Professor Philip Bowen Cardiff University School of Engineering | REF: requirements for impact Panopto link |
| 30 March 2023 11:00 to 13:00 | CREWE | Professor Yi-Bing Cheng Foshan Xianhu Laboratory, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China. Professor Agustin Valera-Medina Centre of Excellence on Ammonia Engineering, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK | Seminar on Ammonia Energy Applications |
| 28 March 2023 11:00 to 12:00 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series 2023 | Professor in Earth Science, Director of Research, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Experience with REF2021 review panel UoA 7 Panopto link |
| 22 March | ENGIN Research Seminar Series 2023 | Mrs Jennifer Hulin Senior Planning Advisor, Cardiff University | Introduction to the Research Excellence Framework Panopto link |
09 March 2023: 12:00 to 13:00 | HVM | Dr Lucas Hof, PhD École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada | Towards intelligent circular manufacturing process: Circular Manufacturing 4.0 |
| 22 February 2023 15:30 to 16:30 | HVM | Dr Carolina Guerra Figueroa Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile | Advantages of producing materials with smart properties by additive manufacturing |
| 22 February 2023 10:30 | HRC | Professor Songdong Shao Dongguan University of Technology, China | Development of Engineering Software for Industrial Applications |
| 15 February 2023 13:00 | CHFE | Dr Jung Han Choi Fraunhofer Institute (Heinrich-Hertz Institute), Berlin, Germany | Recent high-speed RF Researches for optical communications at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute |
| 01 February 2023 13:00 | CHFE | Professor Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino, Italy | Sustainability challenges in radio access networks |
| 16 November 2022 12:00 to 13:00 | GRC | Professor Rao Martand Singh Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NTNU, Norway | Geothermal energy pile foundations for heating & cooling buildings |
| 02 November 2022 5:00 to 16:00 | RAIM | Dr Yuanchang Liu (UCL) | Advanced autonomy for marine robots |
| 19 October 2022 | GRC | Joanne Kwan Senior Research Manager, CIRIA | Extreme weather events and contaminated land – current and future Challenges |
| 28 September 2022 | IROHMS | Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad SMIEEE, SMOPTICA | Activity Understanding based on Vision and Sensors: Some Healthcare Perspectives |
| 10 August 2022 | GRC | Professor Deyi Hou School of Environment in Tsinghua University, China | Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Soil: Past, Present, and Future |
| 13 July 2022 | TPMSM | Cardiff University | The future of construction materials: durability and sustainability |
| 06 July 2022 | CHFE | Professor Kangwoo Cho Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | Environmental Electrochemistry for water treatment and energy harvesting |
| 24 June 2022 | RESCOM | Professor Tomoya Nishiwaki and Tomoya Asakawa | 3D printing and THz spectroscopy in Concrete @ Tohoku University |
| 16 June 2022 | HRC | Clay Walden and Daniel Carruth Mississippi State University, USA | Off-Road Autonomy Research at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University |
| 16 June 2022 | IROHMS | Professor Ah-Hwee Tan Professor of Computer Science, Singapore Management University | Cognitive computing: Theories, models and applications |
| 15 June 2022 | TPMSM | Professor Gao Min Magnetics & Materials, Cardiff School of Engineering | Developing High Performance Thermoelectric Materials for Thermal Energy Harvesting |
| 15 June 2022 | CHFE | Centre for High Frequency Engineering, Cardiff School of Engineering | Macromolecular engineering of synthetic cells using an integrated microfluidic platform |
| 09 June 2022 | IROHMS | Professor George Huang Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Hong Kong | Cyber-Physical Internet (CPI) for Cross-Border Logistics of Manufactured Products |
| 07 June 2022 | IROHMS | Dr Rob Deaves Robotic System Architect, Dyson UK | Horizon in Autonomous Robotics |
| 18 May 2022 | TPMSM | Dr Samuel Bigot Robotic System Architect, Dyson UK | Machine Learning & Advanced Manufacturing – A Personal Perspective |
| 04 May 2022 | TPMSM | MedEng, Cardiff School of Engineering | Towards Multi-Physical Additive Manufacturing |
| 20 April 2022 | TPMSM | Adriana and Johanna Colombian School of Engineering Julio Garavito, Colombia | Evaluation of the effect of adding iron oxide to an Al-Mg-Si alloy in microstructure and hardness: a novel aluminum-iron oxide composite from industrial by-products |
| 13 April 2022 | IROHMS | Reda Mansy Cardiff University, Computer Science | Human-Robot Interaction: Libraries in Human Detection and Object Recognition |
| 8 June 2022 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series | Royal Academy of Engineering-Sêr Cymru Research, Fellow Hydro-environmental Research Centre, Cardiff University, UK | How do logjams slow the flow? Prediction of logjam-generated upstream backwater rise and flow redistribution Panopto link |
| 9 March 2022 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series | Professor David Wallis Institute for Compound Semiconductors, School of Engineering, Cardiff University | Gallium Nitride: A Green Semiconductor |
| 9 February 2022 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series | Dr Lorenzo Morini Applied and Computational Mechanics Research group, School of Engineering, Cardiff University | Vibration control and wave filtering using quasicrystalline phononic structures Panopto link |
| 12 January 2022 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series | Dr Daniel Zabek Magnetics and Materials Research Group, School of Engineering, Cardiff University | Ferroelectric and Ferromagnetic Smart Materials and Fluids Panopto link |
| 8 December 2021 | IROHMS | Cardiff University | Using EEG brain signals to facilitate a collaborative human-robot assembly |
| 17 November 2021 | ENGIN Research Seminar Series | Dr Ameya Rege Institute of Materials Research, German Aerospace Center Cologne. | Computational multiscale modelling of nanostructured porous materials Panopto link |
| 21 July 2021 | IROHMS | Dr Ze Ji Cardiff University | Robot learning and active sensing |
| 07 July 2021 | CHFE | Dr Tommaso Cappello University of Bristol | Improving the linearity-efficiency trade-off in RF sub-systems |
| 23 June 2021 | IROHMS | Dr Emmanuel Senft University of Wisconsin-Madison | Designing robotic technologies for natural interactions with humans |
| 16 June 2021 | IROHMS | Professor Daniel Polani University of Hertfordshire | Empowerment: Theme and Variations |
| 9 June 2021 | IROHMS | Dr Jos Elfring TomTom | Mapping, localisation, and world modelling in automated driving |
| 2 June 2021 | IROHMS | Dr Cristian Vergara KU Leuven | Chorrobot: Challenging Operations using Reactive ROBOT control |
| 2 June 2021 | IROHMS | Joanneum Research | I4RC (Illumination for Robotic Control): The potential of visible light communication, positioning and sensing in the robotic domain. |
| 26 May 2021 | IROHMS | University College London (UCL) | Shared Control for Assistive Robotics and Brain-Machine Interfaces |
| 12 May 2021 | Cardiff School of Engineering | Motion Planning for Multipurpose Autonomous Systems | |
| 11 May 2021 | Cardiff TWS | Dr Bing Zhang Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS) | Composites delamination suppression and prediction |
| 5 May 2021 | CHFE | Prof George Dimitrakis Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham | Dielectric spectroscopy; a viable tool for process monitoring and optimisation of processes |
