Duc Truong Pham
Professor Duc Truong Pham is the Chance Professor of Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), and also a Fellow of several prestigious institutions, including the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and the Learned Society of Wales (LSW). For his outstanding contributions to the field of engineering, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2003. Additionally, he serves as Emeritus Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham.
Professor Pham has published more than 600 peer-reviewed papers in international academic journals and books, covering intelligent systems, advanced manufacturing and remanufacturing, robotics and autonomous systems. He is the originator of the renowned "Bees Algorithm," a swarm intelligence optimization technique inspired by the foraging behavior of honeybees, which has had a significant impact in both academia and industry. He has authored multiple academic monographs and serves as the founding editor of the Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Cogent Engineering.
Professor Pham has led and participated in research projects with external funding exceeding £30 million and has supervised over 100 Ph.D. students to completion. He is an internationally renowned grant reviewer, regularly providing evaluation services for various international research funding bodies, including the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Royal Society, the European Commission, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). In recognition of his outstanding academic contributions in engineering and intelligent systems, he has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Automation Congress and the Distinguished International Academic Contribution Award from the IEEE.