RiTA 2020

shapingthe direction of research programmes and co-ordinating multi-organisation teams (from QinetiQ, Dstl, BAE Systems, Thales UK, the Military and Academia) and multi-disciplinary teams. In his current role Jon leads the ambitious multi-million pound Cardiff School of Technologies development, to further establish Cardiff Metropolitan University as a world leader within the tech industry. Teaching and research will focus on areas such as data science, cyber security, mobile computing, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems engineering. Jon holds a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bradford, an MSc in Aerosystems Engineering and a PhD in Self organising fuzzy logic, both from Loughborough University. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a member of both the Institution of Measurement and Control and the International Council on Systems Engineering.

Pengcheng Liu received the B.Eng. degree in measurement and control and the M.Sc. degree in control theory and control engineering from Zhongyuan University of Technology, China, in 2007 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics and control from Bournemouth University, UK, in 2017. He is currently a Lecturer (Tenured Assistant Professor) at the Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK. Before joining York, he has held several academic positions including a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, a joint Research Fellowship at Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (LCAS) and Lincoln Institute of Agri-Food Technology (LIAT), University of Lincoln, UK, a Research Assistant and a Teaching Assistant at Bournemouth University, UK, and a Lectureship at Zhongyuan University of Technology, China. He also held academic positions as a Visiting Fellow at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.