Dr Qingping Yang - Dr QingPing Yang is currently the Group Director for Brunel Quality Engineering and Smart Technology (QUEST) Research Group and Robotics and Automation Research Group.
Dr Yang joined the Brunel Centre for Manufacturing Metrology (BCMM) in 1988 with a visiting scholarship awarded by the AVIC, after his graduation in Instrumentation and Measurement Technology from Chengdu Aeronautical Polytechnic in 1983 and subsequent 4 years’ research experiences at an Aircraft Structure Research Institute (AVIC, Xi’an) and admission to an MSc Programme in Robot Control and Intelligent Control at Northwestern Polytechnical University. In 1989, he was awarded an ORS Award and a PhD Studentship from British Technology Group to develop a patented smart 3D high precision probe system for CMMs, and he received his PhD degree in October 1992.
Since then he has been working as a Research Fellow, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader (Associate Professor) at СʪÃÃÊÓƵ London. He has actively participated in 18 (16 as Principal Investigator) research projects funded by the UK government, EU and industrial companies, with a total funding of about £2.7 million as Principal Investigator and £1.2 million as Co-Investigator. Through more than 30 years dedicated research, he has developed a unique and coherent research field broadly integrating three research areas of sensor/measurement systems, quality engineering and smart technologies (including AI and robotics) with rigorous theoretical foundation, addressing the core science and technology underpinning these areas. He has published more than 120 journal/conference papers, 5 book chapters and 3 patents (one patent successfully assigned for commercial exploitation in 2004) in these areas. He has supervised (as the 1st supervisor) 23 PhD and 4 MPhil students with successful completion as well as 11 visiting academic staff / PhD students, and he is currently supervising 6 PhD students.
Dr Yang has received numerous prizes and awards for outstanding academic and work performance in the past (including three performance bonuses in СʪÃÃÊÓƵ). He has been a member of IEEE and IET. He was profiled in the 15th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World (1998) and the 5th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (2000).