Chris Brace

Staff

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

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.