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Wuqiang Yang

Wuqiang Yang

Professor Wuqiang Yang is a tenured Professor of Electronic Instrumentation at the University of Manchester, UK, and Director of the Joint Research Laboratory for Robotic Touch Sensors in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He received his PhD from Tsinghua University in 1988, joined the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1991, and became a tenured professor at the University of Manchester in 2005.

He is a world-leading authority in Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT), with long-term research in weak signal detection and industrial process imaging. He invented a stray-immune AC-based capacitance measuring circuit capable of detecting capacitance changes as low as 0.0001 pF, approaching the physical limit. He also proposed the Landweber iterative algorithm for quantitative ECT image reconstruction, which has become a classic method in the field. For his outstanding contributions to ECT, he was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2012. He is also a Fellow of the IET and the InstMC.
His research outcomes have been widely applied in the oil & gas, pharmaceutical, aviation, energy, and chemical industries, through collaborations with Schlumberger, Shell, Airbus, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and others, generating significant economic and social impact. In 2017, he co-founded Beijing Tashan Technology Co., Ltd. Based on his “”tomographic tactile sensing”” and “”distributed brain-like chip architecture”” technologies, the company successfully built an embodied intelligent tactile perception model, solving the global challenge of simultaneously resolving multi-dimensional tactile signals. It launched the world’s first AI-specific tactile sensing chip and achieved large-scale application.

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