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Computational Engineering and Design Group

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We're a centre for multidisciplinary engineering simulation and design, and combine a range of analytical, computational and experimental techniques.

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Our 3 main research themes are:

  • design search and optimisation
  • applied computational modelling
  • computational methods

The strength of our research is based on combining engineering methods with industrial applications. For example, we are developing grid-based, problem-solving services for academia and industry. Our research has many applications, and our activities include:

  • using computational methods for studying design and related problems in fluids, structures, control systems and biomechanics
  • evolutionary optimisation
  • constructing advanced cost-prediction systems
  • optimising metamodelled, approximate or noisy systems and analysis of robustness

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People, projects and publications

People

Dr Jennifer Forrester

Design Consultant

Research interests

  • Geometry representation for machine learning
  • Robust design and uncertainty propagation
  • Structural design with composites

Email: jennifer.forrester@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

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Dr Jie Yuan FHEA, CEng, MRAeS

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Computational methods for complex dynamical systems
  • Dynamic control using novel functional material and interface
  • Non-deterministic approaches for robust optimisation and identification

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.yuan@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

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Dr Leran Wang

Senior Research Fellow

Email: leran.wang@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

Dr Mehmet Erbil

Principal UAV Engineer Soton UAV THU

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: ma.erbil@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

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Professor Michele Meo

Professor of Applied Mechanics

Email: m.meo@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

Dr Ondrej Hovorka

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Nanorobotics for biomedicine
  • Computational nanomagnetism
  • Data science and machine learning

Email: o.hovorka@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

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Dr Philip Basford MEng PhD MIET

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Sensor Networks
  • µCT scanning for Biomedical applications

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: p.j.basford@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

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Dr Sergio Araujo-Estrada BEng, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Control and Robotics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.araujo-estrada@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

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Professor Simon Cox

Head of Department

Research interests

  • My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science.His team in the Computational Engineering and Design Group is applying and developing high performance and cloud computing in a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary computational science and engineering projects. These include:
  • High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed computing - which led to a spin out companyApplied computational algorithms Computational electromagnetics– which led to the formation of a spin-off company.New algorithms such as meshless methods and fast solvers.Data Management Simon is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing where he demonstrates why, where and how current and future Microsoft tools and technologies can be exploited to enable engineering and scientific research to deliver faster, cheaper and better results.

Email: s.j.cox@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

Dr Stephen Prior CEng, MIMechE

Readership in Unmanned Air Vehicles

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.d.prior@soton.ac.uk

Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, SO16 7QF

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I manage a number of research programmes sponsored by BAE systems, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and the EPSRC.
Professor James Scanlan
Professor of Design
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