Professor Maozhen Li
Vice-Dean of the NCUT TNE programme/Professor

Summary

Maozhen Li is a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Brunel University of London. He received his PhD from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. He did Post Doctoral research in the School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University in January 1999- January 2002, joined Brunel in February 2002 as a lecturer and became a Professor in September 2013. 

His research interests are in the areas of high performance computing, big data analytics and artificial intelligence with applications to smart grid, smart manufacturing and cybersecurity. He has over 240 scientific publications in these areas including 5 books with about 8000 citations (Google Scholar h-index 47). He has served over 30 IEEE conferences. He is an Associated Editor of the Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications, Springer, International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, and Journal of Computing and Informatics. He has successfully secured a number of research grants from funding sources including EPSRC, the European Union, Innovate UK. He is a Fellow of the IET and the British Computer Society. His research work on Big Data Modelling on Large Scale Road Networks was shortlisted by Computing UK in May 2018 for BIG DATA EXCELLENCE AWARDS in the category of Most Innovative Big Data Solution. 

As the first supervisor, he has successfully supervised 25 PhD students since he joined Brunel University in 2002. As an external examiner, he has examined over 30 PhD theses at a number of universities in the UK including University of Warwick, University of Bath, Cardiff University, University of Surrey, University of Kent, De Montfort University.

He was an external examiner for MSc Programme in Computing at Edge Hill University, UK for a period of 3 years in 2019-2022. Currently he serves as an external examiner for the BSc Business and IT at University of Malta.

Qualifications

He is a Fellow of IET and British Computer Society. 

Responsibility

Since he joined Brunel in February 2002, he has taken a number of managerial roles in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was the Course Director of the MSc Distributed Computing Systems from 2005 to 2019. This MSc was running off-campus at the Technical Academy Esslingen, Germany. He was the Course Direcor for MSc Communication Network Technologies for 5 years and Senior Tutor for 2 years. 

In September 2020, he took the role of Vice Dean in the College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, managing 3 Transnational Education (TNE) undergraduate programmes running off campus in the BUL-NCUT School jointly set up by Brunel University of London and North China University of Technology (NCUT) in Beijing. The joint school started with 112 students in September 2020 and will have over 1000 students in September 2025 doing both Brunel and NCUT degrees.