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Professor Kai Cheng
Honorary Professor

Tower A 208

Summary

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

  • BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, 1st Class, Harbin Institute of Technology, July 1983.
  • MSc in Manufacturing Engineering, 1st Class (Distinction), Harbin Institute of Technology, July 1988.
  • PhD in Precision Manufacturing, Liverpool John Moores University, January 1994.

WORKING EXPERIENCES

  • 01/1994 – 09/1995, Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University.
  • 10/1995 – 11/1999, Lecturer, Department of Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University.
  • 12/1999 – 04/2001, Reader, School of Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University.
  • 05/2001 – 04/2006, Professor, School of Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University.
  • 05/2006 – present, Chair Professor, Head of Advanced Manufacturing & Enterprise Engineering (AMEE) Department, School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University London.

Responsibility

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS

  • Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Fellow since 2004
  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Fellow since 2006

JOURNAL EDITORIAL WORK

  1. European Editor, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (ISSN: 0628-3768).
  2. Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture (ISSN: 0890-6955).
  3. Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Agile Manufacturing (ISSN: 1536-2639).  
  4. Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Mass Customisation (ISSN: 1742-4208).
  5. Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing (ISSN: 1746-9392).

Newest selected publications

Manjunath, K., Tewary, S., Khatri, N. and Cheng, K. (2025) 'In-process monitoring and prediction of machining status in ultraprecision diamond turning using Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient approach combined with machine learning'. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 1955-2513

Journal article

Riaz, A., Yuan, Z., Chohan, BS. and Cheng, K. (2025) 'Experimental study on the influence of blade shape-composite interaction for dicing CFRP composites'. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 140 (3-4). pp. 1317 - 1333. ISSN: 0268-3768

Journal article

Riaz, A., Yuan, Z., Chohan, BS. and Cheng, K. (2025) 'Study on the influence of diamond abrasive cutting depth for precise machining of CFRP composites using ultrathin dicing blades'. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0954-4054

Journal article

Qiao, X., Wang, Y., Cheng, K., Xu, H. and Yan, C. (2025) 'A novel sensitivity analysis method for geometric errors in precision lathes based on variance decomposition and partial derivative integration'. Precision Engineering, 95. pp. 203 - 214. ISSN: 0141-6359

Journal article
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