Group Members

Staff

Charlie C.L. Wang

Professor and Chair of Smart Manufacturing
Fellow of ASME, Fellow of EPSRC
email: changling.wang@manchester.ac.uk

Research interests

Digital Manufacturing, Computational Design, Additive Manufacturing, Soft Robotics, Mass Personalization, and Geometric Computing.

Michael Petty

Technical Specialist and Lab Steward for Digital Manufacturing, Chartered Engineer with IMechE
email: michael.petty@manchester.ac.uk

Research interests

Automate Manufacturing, Composite manufacturing, Advanced & Sustainable materials, metrology

Arash Armanfar

Research Associate
email: arash.armanfar@manchester.ac.uk

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey (2023)

Yingjun Tian

Research Associate
email: yingjun.tian@manchester.ac.uk

  • PhD, University of Manchester (2024)

Yu Jiang

Research Associate
email: yu.jiang-5@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Yinan Meng

Research Associate
email: yinan.meng@manchester.ac.uk

  • PhD, University of Manchester (2025)

Neelotpal Dutta

Research Associate
email: neelotpal.dutta@manchester.ac.uk

Research Students

Zikang Shi

PhD Student, started Sept 2024
email: zikang.shi@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

  • B.Eng., M.Sc., SJTU, Shanghai, China

Tao Liu

PhD Student, started Jan 2023
email: tao.liu@manchester.ac.uk

Yongxue Chen

PhD Student, started Sept 2023
email: yongxue.chen@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

  • BSc, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  • MSc, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Nur Banu Altin

MPhil Student, started Jan 2024
email: nur.altin@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

  • BSc, Double major in Materials Science and Mechatronics Engineering
    Sabanci University

Ilinca Pastia

PhD student, started Sept 2024
email: ilinca.pastia@student.manchester.ac.uk

  • MEng (Hons), Aerospace Engineering University of Manchester

Aoran Lyu

PhD student, started Sept 2024
email: aoran.lyu@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

  • BSc, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  • MEng, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Zhuo Huang

PhD student, started Sept 2025
email: zhuo.huang-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

  • BSc, Central South University

  • MSc, Huazhong University of Science and Technology