Michael Short (engineer)

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Michael Short
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Michael Short (July 2021)
Born1975
Stockton-on-Tees, England
Alma mater University of Sunderland
Scientific career
Fields Control Engineering
Systems Informatics
Mathematics
Electrical Engineering
Institutions Teesside University
University of Leicester
University of Sunderland

Michael Short (born August 1975) is Professor of Control Engineering and Systems Informatics and leads the Centre for Sustainable Engineering at Teesside University in the UK. [1] [2] He received a BEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in 1999 and a PhD (Robotics) in 2003 from the University of Sunderland. In 2012 he was also awarded a PGCHE from Teesside University. He was previously at the University of Leicester until 2009, and was made Reader (Professor) in January 2015 and full (Chair) Professor (by Research) in August 2020. [1] Michael is also a time-served automation and process control engineer, with eight years' industrial experience. [1]

Michael is a full member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) since 1999, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2012 and a full member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE), and he also sits on the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technical Committee on Factory Automation (TCFA) since 2012. [3] As of November 2022, he has authored or co-authored over 170 reviewed publications and won six awards including the IEEE James C. Hung Award for best paper in Factory Automation in 2011. [4] As of November 2022 he has a H-index of 23 and an i-10 index of 43. [5] Since 2003 he has been Principal or Co-Investigator on multiple completed and ongoing funded research and innovation projects. [6] [7] He is associate section editor for the Energies International Journal and associate editor for the Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Technologies International Journal. [8] [9] He has made scholarly contributions in several areas, including probability and statistics, [10] [11] real-time systems and scheduling, [12] [13] [14] embedded systems and control, [15] [16] [17] robotics [18] [19] and smart grid. [20] [21]

Michael has appeared in most forms of media to discuss the impacts of his work, including public webcasts, invited/keynote speeches, plenary lectures, and radio broadcasts, [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] magazine features/interviews [7] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] and print/online news. [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] He has contributed to several UK Science and Technology Committee (House of Lords) inquiries, [42] [43] and has led authorship of a commissioned report on digital trade for the UK Government. [41] [44] In summer 2020 was interviewed on BBC Radio and featured in news articles regarding his role in the international response to manufacture PPE and Ventilators during the 2020/2021 waves of the COVID-19 viral pandemic. [38] [39] [45] [46] In November 2022 he was featured on BBC Television and in news articles after being listed as one of the ten most influential people in the UK working within the Net Zero agenda. [47] [48] [49]

Michael Short presenting at European Utility Week in Vienna, Austria (November 2018) Michael Short presenting at European Utility Week in Vienna, Austria in November 2018.jpg
Michael Short presenting at European Utility Week in Vienna, Austria (November 2018)

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  9. ↑ "Frontiers in Energy Efficiency | Energy Efficiency Technologies". www.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  10. ↑ Short, Michael (23 December 2013). "Improved Inequalities for the Poisson and Binomial Distribution and Upper Tail Quantile Functions". ISRN Probability and Statistics. 2013: 1–6. doi: 10.1155/2013/412958 .
  11. ↑ Short, Michael (8 November 2021). "On binomial quantile and proportion bounds: With applications in engineering and informatics". Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. 52 (12): 4183–4199. doi: 10.1080/03610926.2021.1986540 . ISSN   0361-0926. S2CID   243974180.
  12. ↑ Short, Michael (16 February 2010). "A note on 'Efficient scheduling of periodic information monitoring requests'". European Journal of Operational Research. 201 (1): 329–335. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2009.03.011. hdl: 2381/4586 . ISSN   0377-2217.
  13. ↑ Short, Michael (September 2011). "Improved schedulability analysis of implicit deadline tasks under limited preemption EDF scheduling". Etfa2011. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/ETFA.2011.6059008. ISBN   978-1-4577-0017-0. S2CID   7656331.
  14. ↑ Short, Michael (April 2010). "Improved Task Management Techniques for Enforcing EDF Scheduling on Recurring Tasks". 2010 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium. pp. 56–65. doi:10.1109/RTAS.2010.22. ISBN   978-1-4244-6690-0. S2CID   13940378.
  15. ↑ Short, Michael; Pont, Michael J. (1 July 2008). "Assessment of high-integrity embedded automotive control systems using hardware in the loop simulation". Journal of Systems and Software. 81 (7): 1163–1183. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2007.08.026. hdl: 2381/4187 . ISSN   0164-1212.
  16. ↑ Short, Michael; Pont, Michael J. (May 2007). "Fault-Tolerant Time-Triggered Communication Using CAN". IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 3 (2): 131–142. doi:10.1109/TII.2007.898477. ISSN   1941-0050. S2CID   5541014.
  17. ↑ Short, Michael (1 March 2017). "Move Suppression Calculations for Well-Conditioned MPC". ISA Transactions. 67: 371–381. doi:10.1016/j.isatra.2016.11.020. ISSN   0019-0578. PMID   27939566.
  18. ↑ Burn, K.; Short, M.; Bicker, R. (2003). "Adaptive and Nonlinear Fuzzy Force Control Techniques Applied to Robots Operating in Uncertain Environments". Journal of Robotic Systems. 20 (7): 391–400. doi:10.1002/rob.10093. ISSN   1097-4563.
  19. ↑ Short, Michael; Burn, Kevin (1 April 2011). "A generic controller architecture for intelligent robotic systems". Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 27 (2): 292–305. doi:10.1016/j.rcim.2010.07.013. ISSN   0736-5845.
  20. ↑ Short, Michael; Crosbie, Tracey; Dawood, Muneeb; Dawood, Nashwan (15 January 2017). "Load forecasting and dispatch optimisation for decentralised co-generation plant with dual energy storage". Applied Energy. 186: 304–320. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.04.052. ISSN   0306-2619. S2CID   156579124.
  21. ↑ Short, Michael; Crosbie, Tracey; Al-Greer, Maher (30 September 2021). Future Smart Grid Systems. MDPI AG. ISBN   978-3-0365-1336-2.
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