Staff and students from the Centre would like to congratulate Dr Paul Danny Anandan and Dr Melanie Zimmer on their recent graduation and wish them all the very best in their future careers.
Paul is currently employed as a Research Associate in the Chemical Engineering department at Loughborough University where he works on a collaborative EPSRC project called ARTICULAR, focussing on implementing AI techniques to control pharmaceutical manufacturing processes without sacrificing critical quality attributes of the final product. His research involves reinforcement learning to control crystallisation processes, which could eventually replace traditional PID and model predictive controllers.
Melanie currently works in the Intelligent Automation Centre as a Research Assistant on the Digital Toolkit for Optimisation of Operators and Technology in Manufacturing Partnerships project (DigiTOP), which is a £1.9m EPSRC funded research project that aims to develop a Toolkit to optimise productivity and communication between human workers and robots.