Dr. Somtochukwu Godfrey Nnabuife received his B.Sc. degree in
chemical engineering from Anambra State University, Uli, Nigeria, in 2009,
M.Sc. degree in petroleum and gas engineering from the University of Salford,
Salford, UK, in 2012, and Ph.D. degree in energy from Cranfield University,
Cranfield, UK, in 2019. He is a chartered engineer with extensive offshore oil
and gas expertise as a flow assurance/process engineer. He is experienced in
interfacing with and integrating across various disciplines (topsides, subsea,
subsurface, and geotechnical) and delivering systems and process designs
(topsides and subsea) for a wide range of development types, such as
deep-water, gas storage, heavy oil, gas condensate, and HP/HT. His research
interests include signal processing, process optimization, multiphase flow,
sustainable energy, machine learning, and data analytics.
Dr. Boyu Kuang is an IEEE member. He received a B.E. degree in aircraft propulsion
engineering from the Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China, an M.Sc.
in thermal power, and a Ph.D. in computer vision from Cranfield University,
UK, in 2014, 2017, and 2022, respectively. He currently works as a research
fellow in computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) for an Airbus-funded
project (ONEHeart) entitled Autonomous Aircraft Ground Refuelling (AAGR)
project at the Center of Computational Engineering Science (CES) at Cranfield
University. He is identified as a professional reviewer for prestigious
journals and conferences, e.g., IEEE Transactions journals, Elsevier Expert Systems With Applications, Sensors, Mathematics, IEEE/ASME AIM conference, etc. His research interests include, but
are not limited to, neural networks, computer vision, image processing, digital
signal processing, robotics, aeronautics, and Metaverse. His experience involves
semantic segmentation, image generation, 3D reconstruction, industrial
cybernetics, and data mining.
Dr. Xiaoxiao Sun is a lecturer at the Low Emissions Gas Turbine Combustion
Centre for Propulsion and Thermal Power Engineering, Cranfield
University. She completed her PhD in 2018, which focused on the
preliminary design of an aero engine low emissions combustor using a
multi-fidelity modelling approach with analyses of fuel injection, heat
transfer, emissions, and other combustor performance characteristics. She
has since led numerical and experimental research on the
development of hydrogen micromix combustion technology within the EU
H2020 ENABLEH2 project. She currently serves as the work package lead
for CleanSky 2 UTOPEA project, which aims to assess the feasibility of
developing a dual fuel combustor and a novel hydrogen combustor for
future aero engine applications. She also collaborates with Siemens
Energy on the numerical modelling and experimental validation of liquid
fuel spray characteristics.
Karl W Jenkins is a Professor of Computational Engineering and Head of Centre for Computational Engineering Sciences, Cranfield University. He gained a PhD from the University of Manchester, which focused on computational and experimental water waves breaking interacting with coastal structures. This expertise in CFD and high-performance computing was extended in a post-doctoral position at Cambridge University as the Sir Arthur Marshall Research Fellow, where he studied turbulent combustion using direct numerical simulation. He has published over 100 papers and has won the Gaydon prize for the most significant paper contribution at a leading symposium on combustion held in Chicago. He is a member of the United Kingdom Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows (UKCTRF). He has been invited to give numerous international and domestic seminars and to participate as a discussion panel member at international HPC DNS/LES conferences in the US.
