Staff
Chris Brace

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Chris Brace

Chris’s research is in the area of automotive powertrain systems. He has a particular focus on the intensive measurement, analysis and control of multi-cylinder engine systems running under dynamic operating conditions. Problems that would benefit from greater mathematical insight include investigation of non-linear effects such as in-cylinder turbulence on combustion stability; the dynamic and thermal effects of friction in clutches on subjective vehicle performance; unsteady flow in compressors leading to the surge phenomenon. These problems have important applications in seeking to reduce the emissions of CO2 from mass market passenger cars.

 

University of Bath Research Portal:

https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/chris-brace/

Second Supervisors

Sean Williams

Department for Health

Research Interests

  • sports injury epidemiology
  • training load monitoring
  • youth athlete development
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Edward Milsom

  • Deep Learning
  • Optimisation
  • Bayesian methods
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Thomas Powell

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

  • Applications of logic in pure and applied probability.
  • Stochastic optimization.
  • Functional analysis.
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Wenbin Li

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

  • Reinforcement learning and its inverse problems;
  • Graph and network optimisation;
  • Continuous state approximation.
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Georgios Exarchakis

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

  • Learning Invariant Representations of High Dimensional Data
  • Efficient Inference and Learning in Probabilistic Models
  • Deep Learning
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Rohit Babbar

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

  • supervised learning problems with large label spaces,
  • learning with long-tailed data, and under label/input noise,
  • sparse neural networks for energy & memory efficient training/fine-tuning with LLMs, and
  • generalisation/robustness in deep learning.
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Michael Yang

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

  • 3D scene synthesis
  • Scene graph generation
  • Multimodal learning
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Ali Uncu

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

  • Applications of Computer Algebra
  • Combinatorics and q-series
  • Developing new algorithms for mathematics
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Alessandro Leronni

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research interests

  • Continuum modelling of electrochemo-mechanical systems
  • Finite element implementation of multiphysics frameworks
  • Smart materials, energy storage, and developmental biology
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Da Chen

Department of Computer Science

Research interests:

  • Computer vision, deep learning, multimodal learning: general CV/ML tasks in practical scenarios.
  • Learning with limited data: Learning with imbalanced data, long-tailed data, open-set data, out-of-distribution data, etc; incremental learning, few-shot learning, etc.
  • Video processing: multimodal learning with video with visual, textual, and audio information.
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