Professor Ashutosh Tiwari is Deputy Vice-President for Innovation at the University of Sheffield and holds the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and Airbus Research Chair. He is internationally renowned for research in digital manufacturing and works in partnership with industry to develop new techniques and solutions for digitalisation, instrumentation, in-process monitoring and real-time simulation of skill-intensive manufacturing processes, such as wing manufacture and engine assembly. He has a strong track record of leading research and innovation projects across technology readiness levels, and serves on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EPSRC) Strategic Advisory Team for Manufacturing and the Circular Economy. He is Deputy Director of the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub, Sheffield Lead of the Made Smarter Research Centre for Connected Factories, and was awarded an EPSRC High-Value Manufacturing Catapult Fellowship. He is passionate about training people for manufacturing research and has graduated more than 40PhD students.
