External collaborators:

  • BAE Systems
  • Swarm Systems
  • Roke Manor
  • Dstl
  • Cranfield University
  • Manchester University
  • Surrey University
  • Cardiff University
  • Strathclyde University
  • Newcastle University
  • Jiangsu University
  • Southeast University

External roles and appointments:

  • Visiting Professor at Jiangsu University (2017-)
  • Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (2016-)
  • Member of Steering Committee of EPSRC Network in Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems (2016-)
  • Associate Editor or member of editorial board: Industrial Artificial Intelligence. Springer ( 2022-); IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (2019-); Unmanned Systems (2016-);  Systems Science & Control Engineering. Taylor and Francis (2026-).
  • Member of IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Control.
  • Member of Autonomous Systems National Technical Committee, technology strategic board.
  • Advisory roles: Panel member for EU Framework Programme projects; Research proposal reviewer for The Israel Science Foundation, Romania National Council for Development and Innovation, and the Ministry of Education of China; Proposal reviewer for the Royal Society and the UK Space Agency
  • International conference organisation: Involved in organising about 30 international conferences in the last 5 years (e.g.  General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics. Loughborough, March 2023; .Associate Editor, the 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). June 4-7, 2024, Crete, Greece; Member of IPC, The 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) (IEEE IV 2024), June 2-5, 2024, Jeju Island, Korea, and  IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC 2023), Austin, USA;  Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics (IECON), 2023, Singapore.)
  • Invited lectures: Invited talks in UK universities (e.g. Cambridge University, Sheffield, Oxford, Warwick, Southampton, Liverpool, and Lancaster), and international universities (e.g. University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Technology, Keio University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beihang University, Southeast University, Northeastern and Jiangsu).
  • Regular Reviewer for all the major journals in control engineering including Automatica; ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control; European Journal of Control; International Journal of Control; Proceedings of IMechE: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering; International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technologies; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEE Proceedings Part-D: Control Theory and Applications; International Journal of Systems Science; IEEE/ASME Transactions of Mechatronics; IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Control Engineering Practice
  • Collaborative Research: closely work with BAE Systems and the European Space Agency (ESA).
  • Member of UK Research and Innovation Talent Peer Review College (PRC) (7/02/2023-)