Browse research from the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics.
Submissions from 2025
Enhancing offshore wind resource assessment through neural network-based HF radar data analysis, Nikolas Martzikos, Matthew Craven, David Walker, and Daniel Conley
Comparison of floating offshore wind and tidal range for green hydrogen production and storage for industrial decarbonization, D. Pegler, R. Rawlinson-Smith, S. Michele, D. Coles, and D. Greaves
Carbonation for enhancement of fine recycled aggregate applied to mortar, Henrique Comba Gomes, Augusto Cesar da Silva Bezerra, Conrado de Souza Rodrigues, Flavia Spitale Jacques Poggiali, and Boksun Kim
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Composites: limitations on decision making for composite [environmental] sustainability, John Summerscales, Badr Moutik, Alexander Besinis, Jasper Graham-Jones, and Richard Pemberton
Scale Model and Ship Simulator Towing of the IEA 15 MW Wind Turbine on the UMaine VolturnUS-S Platform, Adam Roberts, Frédéric Le Pivert, Saied Kazemi, Tom Tosdevin, Adán López-Santander, Matthew J. Craven, and Lars Johanning
A Comparison of a Hyper-Heuristic and an EA on the Portfolio Optimisation Problem, Matthew Craven, Rahul Soni, and David Walker
Investigating Techniques to Optimise the Layout of Turbines in a Windfarm Using a Quantum Computer, James Hancock, Matthew Craven, Craig McNeile, and Davide Vadacchino
Multi-objective Optimisation of Floating Offshore Wind Farms based on a Real-World Case Study, Pawel Manikowski, David Walker, and Matthew Craven
From Age Estimation to Age-Invariant Face Recognition: Generalized Age Feature Extraction Using Order-Enhanced Contrastive Learning, Haoyi Wang, Victor Sanchez, Chang Tsun Li, and Nathan Clarke
A comprehensive review of frugal artificial intelligence: challenges, applications, and the road to sustainable AI, Nancy Girdhar, Deepak Sharma, Aditya Raj, Vinay Singh, Antoine Doucet, and Matthias Renz
Relativistic quantum kinetic theory: Higher order contributions in assisted Schwinger pair production, James P. Edwards, Naser Ahmadiniaz, Sebastian M. Schmidt, and Christian Kohlfürst
Real-Time Temperature Estimation of the Machine Drive SiC Modules Consisting of Parallel Chips per Switch for Reliability Modelling and Lifetime Prediction, Tamer Kamel, Olamide Olagunju, and Temitope Johnson
A Survey of Image Forensics: Exploring Forgery Detection in Image Colorization, Ki-Hyun Jung, Saurabh Agarwal, Deepak Sharma, Nancy Girdhar, and Cheonshik Kim
Low-energy multi-photon scattering at tree-level and one-loop order in a homogeneous electromagnetic field, Ivan Ahumada, Patrick Copinger, and James P. Edwards
A comparative study of word embedding techniques for classification of star ratings, Craig McNeile, Malgorzata Wojtys, and Hesham Abdelmotaleb
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Composite: limitations on decision making for composite environmental sustainability, John Summerscales, Badr Moutik, Alexander Besinis, Jasper Graham-Jones, and Richard Pemberton
Hadronic Vacuum Polarization for the Muon g-2 from Lattice QCD: Long-Distance and Full Light-Quark Connected Contribution, Alexei Bazavov, Claude Bernard, David Anthony Clarke, Christine Davies, Carleton DeTar, Aida X. El-Khadra, María Elvira Gámiz Sánchez, Steven Gottlieb, Anthony V. Grebe, Leon Hostetler, William Jay, Hwancheol Jeong, Andreas Kronfeld, Shaun Lahert, Jack Laiho, Gerard Lepage, Michael Lynch, Andrew Lytle, Craig McNeile, ETHAN NEIL, Curtis Peterson, James Simone, Jacob W Sitison, Ruth S. Van de Water, and Alejandro Vaquero Avilés-Casco
SPH Simulation of Isothermal Sloshing in a Circular Tank: A CCP-WSI Blind Test Study, Jiaxin Chen, Yong Yang, Martyn Hann, Robert Rawlinson-Smith, Munira Raji, and Deborah Greaves
Worldline modeling of ultra-intense lasers for N-photon scattering processes, P. Copinger, I. Ahumada, J. P. Edwards, and K. Rajeev
Advancements in mooring systems for the OE35 wave energy converter: Dynamic design and validation, Chenyu Zhao, Faryal Khalid, Tony Lewis, Sean Barrett, Brian McSwiney, Rémy CR. Pascal, Bernardo Kahn, and Lars Johanning
RL-SCAP SigFox: A Reinforcement Learning Based Scalable Communication Protocol for Low-Power Wide-Area IoT Networks, Raghad Albalawi, Fatma Bouabdallah, Linda Mohaisen, and Shireen Saifuddin
Mesoscale modelling for investigating the thermo-mechanical behaviour of geopolymer concrete, Feiyu Shi, Long yuan Li, and Shanshan Cheng
Analytical modelling of chloride diffusion in circular section concrete columns with binding effects, Long yuan Li and Zaiwei Li
CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 5: Numerical Investigation of Isothermal Sloshing in a Circular Tank Using OpenFOAM, Scott Brown, Vivek Francis, Stuart Colville, Deborah Greaves, and Ignacio Pregnan Johanessen
Developing Human-Autonomy Teaming Strategies for Maritime Cyber Security Resilience in Uncrewed Autonomous and Remote Surface Vessel Operations, Juan Palbar Misas, Kimberly Tam, and Kevin Jones
On the sensitivity of short design waves for semi-submersible wind platforms, S.A. Brown, T. Tosdevin, M. Hann, and D.M. Greaves
On the development and application of short design events for the prediction of extreme responses of floating offshore wind turbines, T. Tosdevin, S. Brown, F. Fàbregas Flavià, M. Hann, D. Simmonds, R. Rawlinson-Smith, R. Wigg, and D. Greaves
An Efficient NSGA-II-based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning, Ashley Foster, Mario Gianni, Amir Aly, and Hooman Samani
Bubble Image Velocimetry application to flow characterization for incipient overtopping events@ challenges and opportunities, Corrado Altomare, Xuexue Chen, Alison Raby, Xavier Gironella, and Tomohiro Suzuki
Energy-Based Trajectory Tracking for Underactuated Mechanical Systems: Velocity-Free and Disturbance Rejection Methods, Najmeh Javanmardi, Pablo Borja, Arjan van der Schaft, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, and Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen
Two-Step Estimation Procedure for Parametric Copula-Based Regression Models for Semi-Competing Risks Data, Qingmin Zhang, Bowen Duan, Małgorzata Wojtyś, and Yinghui Wei
Hadronic vacuum polarization for the muon g-2 from lattice QCD: Complete short and intermediate windows, Alexei Bazavov, David Anthony Clarke, Christine Davies, Carleton DeTar, Aida X. El-Khadra, María Elvira Gámiz Sánchez, Steven Gottlieb, Anthony Grebe, Leon Hostetler, William Jay, Hwancheol Jeong, Andreas Kronfeld, Shaun Lahert, Jack Laiho, Gerard Lepage, Michael Lynch, Andrew Lytle, Craig McNeile, ETHAN NEIL, Curtis Peterson, James Simone, Jacob W Sitison, Ruth S. Van de Water, and Alejandro Vaquero Avilés-Casco
A Novel Method for Information Hiding in Images, Ali Al-nuaimi and Shaymaa Al-juboori
Statistically speaking...How long can the next Pope expect to live?, Julian Stander and Mario Cortina-Borja
Adverse fetal and perinatal outcomes associated with Zika virus infection during pregnancy: an individual participant data meta-analysis, The Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium, Edna Acosta Pérez, Juan Aguilar Ticona, Jackeline Alger, Celia Alpuche Aranda, Angélica Amado Niño, Emily Ansusinha, Thalia Araújo, Juan Arias, Lumumba Arriaga Nieto, Marcos Ávila, Azucena Bardají, Carlos Becerra Mojica, Andrea Benedetti, Ana Bertozzi, Sarah Bethencourt, Karen Blackmon, Victor Borja Aburto, Patrícia Brasil, Elizabeth Brickley, William Britt, Nathalie Broutet, Pierre Buekens, André Cabié, David Alejandro Cabrera-Gaytán, Rodrigo Cachay, Maria Luisa Cafferata, Isaac Caicedo-Castro, Juan Calle, and Guilherme Calvet
Generating training events for building cyber-physical security skills, Avanthika Vineetha Harish, Kimberly Tam, and Kevin Jones
The impact of dwell time on the contextual effect of visual and passive lead-in movements, Laura Alvarez-Hidalgo, David W. Franklin, and Ian S. Howard
Technical Feasibility Analysis of Green Energy Storage Options and Hornsea Wind Farms, Muhammad Maqbool, Jahir Rizvi, Yeaw Chu Lee, and Pablo Borja
A Spatiotemporal Machine Learning Framework for the Prediction of Metocean Conditions in the Gulf of Mexico: Application to Loop Current and Loop Current Eddy Forecasting, Edward Steele, Marcus Juniper, Ajit Pillai, Ian Ashton, Jiaxin Chen, Sergio Jaramillo, and Luz Zarate
Energy-Based Control Approaches for Weakly Coupled Electromechanical Systems, Najmeh Javanmardi, Pablo Borja, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, and Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen
Meta-Analysis and Survival Analysis in Healthcare: Methods, Applications and Impact, Yinghui Wei
Relationships Among e-Voting, e-Auction, e-Cheque, and e-Cash, Yun-Xing Kho, Swee-Huay Heng, Syh-Yuan Tan, and Ji-Jian Chin
Robust inference for the unification of confidence intervals in meta-analysis, Hongsheng Dai, Wei Liang, Haicheng Huang, and Yinghui Wei
Reinforcement Learning-Based Time-Slotted Protocol: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Optimizing Long-Range Network Scalability, Nuha Alhattab, Fatma Bouabdallah, Enas F. Khairullah, and Aishah Aseeri
Variability within life cycle assessment of composites: a limitation of decision making for composite environmental sustainability, John Summerscales, Badr Moutik, Alexander Besinis, Jasper Graham-Jones, and Richard Pemberton
A CNN Compression Methodology for Layer-Wise Rank Selection Considering Inter-Layer Interactions, Milad Kokhazadeh, Georgios Keramidas, Vasilios Kelefouras, and Iakovos Stamoulis
Machine learning to predict stroke risk from routine hospital data: A systematic review, William Heseltine-Carp, Megan Courtman, Daniel Browning, Aishwarya Kasabe, Michael Allen, Adam Streeter, Emmanuel Ifeachor, Martin James, and Stephen Mullin
Experimental-numerical model comparison of a dynamic power cable for a floating offshore wind turbine, Anna Holcombe, Martyn Hann, Scott Brown, Shanshan Cheng, Robert Rawlinson-Smith, Rachel Nicholls-Lee, Tom Tosdevin, Emma Edwards, and Kieran Monk
Visualisation of cyber vulnerabilities in maritime human-autonomy teaming technology, Avanthika Vineetha Harish, Mathew Walter, Luke Christison, and Kimberly Tam
Coherent enhancement of QED cross sections in electromagnetic backgrounds, B. King, T. Heinzl, and D. Liu
Towards a vacuum birefringence experiment at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields: Letter of Intent of the BIREF@HIBEF Collaboration, James Edwards, Tom Heinzl, and B. King
Singular-Perturbation Control of a Tendon-Driven Soft Robot: Theory and Experiments, Lucas Novaki Ribeiro, Pablo Borja, Cosimo Della Santina, and Bastian Deutschmann
Data driven multi-objective optimization of the scheduling for towing a floating offshore wind turbine between assembly port and installation location throughout a year, Frédéric Le Pivert, Adam Roberts, Adan Lopez-Santander, Matthew Craven, and Saeid Kazemi
Faraday waves and period tripling in a horizontal circular tank, Stuart Colville, Y. M. Scolan, Francesco Gambioli, Deborah Greaves, Edward Ransley, and Yeaw Chu Lee
Many-objective optimisation of offshore wind farms, Pawel L. Manikowski, Matthew J. Craven, and David J. Walker
Multiphase modelling of electrical conductivity of concrete with conductive inclusions, Long yuan Li, Zaiwei Li, and Feiyu Shi
Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis on Chest X-rays Using Data-Efficient Image Transformers, Joan Mnyambo, Amir Aly, Shang-Ming Zhou, Yinghui Wei, Stephen Mullin, and Emmanuel Ifeachor
Techno-economic analysis for floating offshore wind and offshore green hydrogen, David Pegler
Implementing Identity-based Signature Schemes for Secure Data Transfer in Cloud Computing Environments, Paul Osinuga, Ji-Jian Chin, and Terry Shue Chien Lau
High performance synthetic fiber-reinforced concrete mixed with nanoparticles: A proof-of-concept green railway sleeper product, Thanongsak Imjai, Radhika Sridhar, Satjapan Leelatanon, Monthian Setkit, Elhem Ghorbel, and Boksun Kim
Quantum Phase Transition of Non-Hermitian Systems using Variational Quantum Techniques, James Hancock, Matthew Craven, Craig McNeile, and Davide Vadacchino
Sustainability considerations for end-of-life fibre-reinforced plastic boats, John Summerscales, Ruadan Geraghty, Jasper Graham-Jones, Richard Pemberton, and Simon Bray
Approaches to post-tsunami coastal reconstruction: Comparisons across Indonesia, Thailand, and Japan, Alison Raby, A Pomonis, Anawat Suppasri, Keith Adams, Nurullah Açikgoz, Marco Baiguera, Yunita Idris, Panon Latcharote, Francesca Marafini, David McGovern, Ella Meilianda, Harsh Mistry, Sukiman Nurdin, Eyitayo Opabola, Teraphan Ornthammarath, Nattapon TRumikaborworn, and Tiziana Rossetto
Pair creation, backreaction, and resummation in strong fields, Patrick Copinger, James P. Edwards, Anton Ilderton, and Karthik Rajeev
Utility of a hybrid approach to the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, Christine Davies, Andreas Kronfeld, Gerard Lepage, Craig McNeile, and Ruth Van de Water
Experimental and numerical investigation on the seakeeping performance of a pentamaran with tilting aft side hulls, Ying Cui, Lupeng Wu, Yanan Li, Ying Cao, Chenyu Zhao, and Penghao Li
Quantum Phase Transition of Non-Hermitian Systems using Variational Quantum Techniques, James Hancock, Matthew J. Craven, Craig McNeile, and Davide Vadacchino
Real-world continuous smartwatch-based user authentication, N. Clarke, N. Al-Naffakh, F. Li, and P. Haskell-Dowland
Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for Domain Adaptation in Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis, Kush Gupta, Amir Aly, and Emmanuel Ifeachor
Modification of Maxwell model for conductivity prediction of carbon nanotubes-filled polymer composites with tunneling effect, Longyuan Li, Jue Zhu, and Ningtao Zhu
A Data-Driven Approach to Offshore Wind Forecasting in the Celtic Sea, Ajit C Pillai, Peter Jenkin, Ian Ashton, Edward Steele, Marcus Juniper, and Jiaxin Chen
Artificial Intelligence Powered System for Epilepsy Detection Using EEG Biomarkers, Ali H. Al-Nuaimi and Shaymaa Al-Juboori
Developing an Artificial Intelligence Framework for Identifying Fusion Blood-Based Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease, Ali H. Al-Nuaimi, Mohammed Kamal Nsaif, and Shaymaa Al-Juboori
Digital passivity-based control of underactuated mechanical systems, Mattia Mattioni and Pablo Borja
Mesoscale Modeling for Predicting Effective Properties and Damage Behavior of Geopolymer Concrete, Feiyu Shi, Shanshan Cheng, and Longyuan Li
Modelling the hydrodynamic response of a floating offshore wind turbine – a comparative study, Ling Qian, Shimin Yu, Edward Ransley, Yang Zhou, Scott Brown, Deborah Greaves, Martyn Hann, Anna Holcombe, Emma Edwards, Tom Tosdevin, Sudhir Jagdale, Qian Li, Yi Zhang, Ningbo Zhang, Shiqiang Yan, Qingwei Ma, Bonaventura Tagliafierro, Salvatore Capasso, Iván Martínez-Estévez, Malin Göteman, Hans Bernhoff, Madjid Karimirad, José M. Domínguez, Corrado Altomare, Giacomo Viccione, Alejandro J.C. Crespo, Moncho Goméz-Gesteira, Claes Eskilsson, Gael Verao Fernandez, and Jacob Andersen
Multi-Modal Framework for Autism Severity Assessment Using Spatio-Temporal Graph Transformers, Kush Gupta, Amir Aly, and Emmanuel Ifeachor
New Ethereum-based distributed PKI with a reward-and-punishment mechanism, Chong Gee Koa, Swee Huay Heng, and Ji Jian Chin
Prediction of Compressive Strength of Fly Ash-Recycled Mortar Based on Grey Wolf Optimizer–Backpropagation Neural Network, Guang Ji Yin, Jing Jing Shao, Lin Bin Li, Xiao Dong Wen, Yu Xiao Zou, Xiao Bao Zuo, Xiao Jian Gao, and Shan Shan Cheng
Speech-aided facial video super resolution with accurate lip motion and enhanced frequency details, Shailza Sharma, Vivek Singh, Abhinav Dhall, and Vinay Kumar
State space model of airflow in the human vocal apparatus, Ian Howard
Submissions from 2024
Designing and Manufacturing Low-Cost, Tendon-Driven Soft Robots, Ted Winter-Glasgow and Pablo Borja
Microstructure Analysis of Different NaOH Molarity Towards Fly Ash Geopolymer for Underwater Concreting Material, A. Romisuhani, F. H.A. Zaidi, M. M.A.B. Abdullah, W. M.W. Ibrahim, M. I.A. Bistamam, A. S. Sauffi, and L. Y. Li
Monitoring Methods on evolution of AlkAli ActivAtion of AlkAli-ActivAted MAteriAls, R. A. Razak, R. Mohamed, M. M.Al Bakri Abdullah, S. Z.Abd Rahim, B. Kim, T. Imjai, I. H. Aziz, and D. L.C.H. Hao
Taxonomy of Cyber Risk Mitigation Cost Benefit Analysis Methods for Energy Infrastructure, Yvonne Kam Hwei Syn, Kevin Jones, Kimberly Tam, and Robert Rawlinson-Smith
Using the Lehmer Mean to Assess Business Data Protection: Statistical Disclosure Control and the Truncated Moment Problem, Mark Stander and Julian Stander
Exploring the Efficacy and Limitations of Histogram-Based Fake Image Detection, Dirk Hölscher, Christoph Reich, Frank Gut, Martin Knahl, and Nathan Clarke
Is a 100 m composite ship possible? what are the critical issues?: Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in large marine structures., Jasper Graham-Jones, John Summerscales, and Badr Moutik
The Influence of Human Factors on Adaptive Social Media Cybersecurity Training and Education, Fai Ben Salamah, Marco Palomino, Maria Papadaki, Matthew Craven, and Steve Furnell
Unified worldline treatment of Yukawa and axial couplings, James Edwards
Resistance standards with very small calculable AC-DC difference at frequencies up to 2 MHz for the calibration of precision LCR meters, Jürgen Schurr, Rolf H Judaschke, and Shakil A Awan
A cyber security look at the IMO MASS regulations, Kimberly Tam
Kernels of Motor Memory Formation: Temporal Generalization in Bimanual Adaptation, Ian S. Howard, Sae Franklin, and David W. Franklin
Robust Voltage Regulation for DC Microgrids via Passivity-Based Sliding Mode Control, Edoardo Vacchini, Michele Cucuzzella, Pablo Borja, and Antonella Ferrara
Effects of Hygrothermal Aging on the Flexural Properties of Cross-Ply and Angle-Ply CFRP Composite Laminates, Dongdong Chen, Maozhou Meng, Xiaoyu Sun, Mingzhu Guan, Bing Yang, and Shoune Xiao
Comparison of offshore and onshore hydrogen production from offshore wind, Jessica Guichard, Robert Rawlinson-Smith, and Deborah Greaves
Doing the Maths: The Impact of a Foundation Year on Mathematics Students’ Achievements and Attitudes, Matthew Craven and Jenny Sharp
Quantifying and reducing the cost of tagging: Combining computational fluid dynamics and diving experiments to reduce impact from animal-borne tags, J. Chris McKnight, Chris Pass, Dave Thompson, Steve Balfour, Sophie M.J.M. Brasseur, Clare Embling, Gordon Hastie, Ryan Milne, Adam Kyte, Simon E.W. Moss, Richard Pemberton, and Debbie J.F. Russell
Leading Edge Erosion Classification in Offshore Wind Turbines Using Feature Extraction and Classical Machine Learning, Oscar Best, Asiya Khan, Sanjay Sharma, Keri Collins, and Mario Gianni
