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Dr Yuchu Qin is a Research Fellow with the EPSRC Future Advanced Metrology Hub. He received a BEng in Computer Science and Technology and an MEng in Computer Application Technology from China in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He was awarded his first PhD in Measurement Technology and Instrument with a thesis entitled “Towards Intelligent Design of Tolerance Specifications: An Ontology-Based Methodology” under the supervision of Prof Xiangqian Jiang DBE, DSc, FREng from the State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2017 and his second PhD in Advanced Manufacturing and Precision Engineering with a thesis entitled "Automatic Determination of Part Build Orientation for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing" under the supervision of Prof Paul Scott DSc from the EPSRC Future Advanced Metrology Hub, Centre for Precision Technologies, University of Huddersfield, UK in 2021.

Yuchu focused his research in the areas of Intelligent Manufacturing, Computational Intelligence, and Knowledge Engineering. He is a topic editor of Eng, an editorial board member of Digital Manufacturing Technology, an editorial board member of International Journal of Additive-Manufactured Structures, a reviewer board member of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, and a peer reviewer for Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, Assembly Automation, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Sciences, Sustainability, Symmetry, Mathematics, and Information.

Yuchu has authored or co-authored over 40 academic papers (including over 20 first author papers and 2 corresponding author papers) in a number of journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, Knowledge-Based Systems, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Measurement, Computer-Aided Design, and Soft Computing. He has also co-authored 2 academic monographs about knowledge representation and knowledge-based system.

(1) Intelligent Manufacturing: design for additive manufacturing, computer-aided tolerancing, product data representation and exchange;
(2) Computational Intelligence: multi-objective decision-making, fuzzy aggregation operator, multi-objective optimisation, similarity measure;
(3) Knowledge Engineering: description logic, ontology, knowledge representation and reasoning, case-based reasoning, knowledge-based system