Dr Junli Yang, MSc, PhD, ICIOB, MCMPE

Dr. Yang studied Civil and Building Engineering (Diploma) at Northwest Construction College, Xian, China, in 1990. He consequently worked as a building design consultant, as a structural engineer, for four years. In 1996, Dr Yang studied computer science and CAD related courses at Newcastle University. In 1998, he completed his Masters Degree of Computer Aided Design in Construction at the School of Engineering and Building Environment of University of Wolverhampton. He has since gone on to study a PHD (at Wolverhampton University) entitled “A decision support system for materials routing on construction sites,” which was completed in October 2001. Upon completion of the PhD, Dr Yang was employed as a Research assistant at Wolverhampton. In January 2002, he accepted a prestigious Research Fellowship at Loughborough University to undertake EPSRC sponsored research work, which seeks to classify the plant operators’ productivity. His specialist area of knowledge is the application of artificial intelligence (fuzzy logic and neural networks) to off-highway plant and equipment science. This work has been published in several leading academic journals.