People

Academic staff

Professor Hongming Xu

Professor Hongming Xu

Chair in Energy and Automotive Engineering
Head of Vehicle and Engine Technology Centre

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Hongming Xu is Professor of Energy and Automotive Engineering and Head of the Vehicle Technology Research Centre. He is Director of Birmingham CASE Automotive Research and Education Centre.

He has 6 years of industrial experience with Jaguar Land Rover and Premier Automotive Group of Ford. He researches synergies between fuel, propulsion and after-treatment technologies for cleaner road vehicles.

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 4153
Email
h.m.xu@bham.ac.uk

Professor Huw Williams

Professor Huw Williams

Honorary Professor of Automotive Engineering

School of Engineering

Huw Williams is an Honorary Professor in Automotive Engineering. He is a very well-known leader in the field of automotive engineering with wide industrial experience and significant contribution to research and development of new vehicle technology. Huw is a Fellow and past Vice President of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and he is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical ...

Email
h.williams.5@bham.ac.uk

Dr Quan Zhou

Dr Quan Zhou

Assistant Professor in Automotive Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Quan Zhou is Assistant Professor in Automotive Engineering at the University of Birmingham and leads the research on Connected and Autonomous Systems for Electrified Vehicles (CASE-V). He obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2019. He is the sole recipient of the Ratcliffe Prize in 2019 which is awarded by UoB for the best postgraduate research in ...

Email
q.zhou@bham.ac.uk

 Professor Mike Richardson

Research staff

Lihui Ji

Lihui Ji

Doctoral Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Lihui Ji is an urban geographer with wide-ranging interests in issues related to urban transformation. Her research focuses on gentrification, neighbourhood change, socio-spatial inequality, and urban tourism, particularly how changing urban spaces are experienced, influenced, and imagined in the digital age.

Email
lxj351@student.bham.ac.uk

Dr Ji Li

Dr Ji Li

Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of CASE Automotive Group
Manager of Birmingham CASE Automotive Research and Education Centre

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Ji Li is an Assistant Professor in Control and Automation, Deputy Head of CASE Automotive Group and Manager of Birmingham CASE Automotive Research and Education Centre. Prior to being appointed to this position, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and one year as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

His research vision centralizes on the critical ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 3476
Email
j.li.1@bham.ac.uk

Ph.D. Students

  • Mr Zeyu Sun – Battery thermal management
  • Mr Cetengfei Zhang - Online optimal Energy Management Control for Hybrid vehicles
  • Miss Hua Min, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-time Control of Electrified Vehicles
  • Mr Xu He, Control Optimization of Extended-Range Electric Vehicles
  • Mr Fanggang Zhang – Energy Management of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
  • Mr Chengqing Wen, Improvement of Energy Management System for Electric Vehicles

Alumni

Recent graduate PhD students/Reseach Fellows

  • Dr Bin Shuai – PhD project: CAV and reinforcement learning based control – offer pending
  • Dr Yinglong He – PhD project: vehicle platoon control and optimization - Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Cambridge
  • Dr Ji Li - PhD project: man-machine system in electrified vehicles – Research Fellow at UoB
  • Dr Ziyang Li – PhD project: GDI engine control and optimization – Project Manager at China National Petroleum Corporation
  • Dr Quan Zhou – design and control optimization of off-highway vehicles – Assistant Professor at UoB
  • Dr Scott Cash – PhD project: HEV modelling and control – Engineer at Mclaren
  • Dr Yunfan Zhang – PhD project: Calibration and optimization for dual-loop EGR system – Software engineer at JLR
  • Dr Cheng Tan – PhD project: Model based control for diesel engines - Senior Consultant at Altran

Previous research fellows

  • Dr Haoye Liu – Advanced Fuel and Engine Combustion - Associate Professor at Tianjin University
  • Dr Guoxiang Lu – Engine Production Development – Director at BYD Auto Ltd
  • Dr Wei Zhang – HEV energy management – Engineer at AVL
  • Dr He Ma – optimal Feedback control for engines – Engineer at Ricardo