Professor Alistair Forbes
National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Since joining the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1985, Alistair Forbes has carried out research in mathematical and statistical modelling, algorithm design, uncertainty evaluation, numerical software development and validation with applications to metrology. Much of his work has been in the area of coordinate metrology, often undertaken in European collaborative projects, including:
- Generation of test data for coordinate metrology software
- Parametrization of geometric elements
- Reference software for fitting geometric elements according to the Chebyshev criterion
- The Virtual CMM
- CMM calibration
- Traceability in computationally-intensive metrology
- Standards for the evaluation of uncertainty of coordinate measurements in industry https://eucom-empir.e
He is a Fellow in the Data Science Department at NPL and a Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield and at the University of Strathclyde, UK, He is chair of the IMEKO Technical Committee 21, Mathematical Tools for Measurements and a member of ISO TC 213, Geometric Product Specification.
Title of his speech:
Coordinate Metrology and the Quality Infrastructure
Professor Pete Loftus
Evalu8ion Ltd; University of Edinburgh
Pete had a 38 year career in Instrumentation and Measurement at Rolls-Royce fostering a passion for measurement and helping others to grow. As the company head of Measurement Engineering, he established standards, skills frameworks, quality system materials, and an R&D portfolio in the discipline. Now, with a private consultancy business and roles as Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh; Chair of the Sensing Innovation Leadership Council; Deputy Director of the Research Centre in NDE; Innovate UK contractor, and leader in local Scouting he continues to support and inspire the discipline and community.
Title of his speech:
Preserving Measurement as a Foundation of Trust and Confidence in the Digital Era
Professor Yan-Fu Li
Tsinghua University
Prof. Yan-Fu Li is currently the Director of the Institute for Quality & Reliability of Tsinghua University and a full Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering in Tsinghua University, China. From 2011 to 2016, he was a faculty member at CentraleSupélec in Université Paris-Saclay, France. His research areas mainly include condition monitoring, fault detection and system reliability with the applications onto various engineering systems. Dr. Li has published over 100 peer-reviewed international journal papers with an H-index = 41. The representative papers appear on IEEE Transactions, POM, IJOC, etc. He has been continuously elected as the Highly Cited Chinese Researcher 2019-2023 by Elsevier and Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2021-2022 by Stanford University. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of several government projects including the key project funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key R&D Program of China. He is also experienced in industrial research, the long-term partners include the top enterprises such as Huawei, China Southern Power Grid, etc. He holds 12 national patents, 1 international patent and 1 IEEE standard. He has won multiple national society and international society search/paper awards, including the Gold Medal of Geneva International Invention Exhibition. He is currently an Associate Editor of “IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics” and “Reliability Engineering & System Safety” and was an AE for “IEEE Transactions on Reliability” (2017-2024). He is the founding Chair of IEEE Technology and Management Society Beijing Chapter.
Title of his speech:
Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) of Complex Engineering Systems – Methods and Applications
Dr Hans Rabus
PTB
Hans Rabus obtained a PhD in physics in 1992 at the Freie Universität Berlin and has since then with Germany’s National Metrology Institute PTB. After eight years the field of synchrotron radiation metrology, he headed the section “detector-based optical radiometry” and organised the first international key comparison of UV spectral responsivity. After changing to ionizing radiation metrology, he chaired the department “Fundamentals of Dosimetry” from 2009 to 2020, pursuing research and development in cross-section measurements, nanodosimetry, track structure simulation and ion microbeam-based radiobiology.
From 2002-2005 he was secretary of the UV working group within the Consultative Committee for Photometry and Radiometry of the Metre Convention. From 2012-2018 Hans was leader of the task group on “Computational Micro- and Nanodosimetry” within WG 6 “Computational Dosimetry” of the European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS), followed by a six years’ term as chair of EURADOS WG6 and consulting member of the EURADOS Council. Presently he is building the new EURADOS WG6 task group on AI in dosimetry.
Since 2020 Hans has been Senior Scientist for “Simulation and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine” and consulting member and temporarily deputy manager of PTB’s Innovation Cluster metrology for Health. He is coordinator of pilot project “Metrology for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (M4AIM)” within the German QI Digital initiative, which comprises 14 Early-Stage Researchers developing quantitative criteria for assessing explainability, robustness and uncertainty of AI algorithms and metrics for data quality (within the EU Testing and experimentation facility TEF Health).