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The London Digital Twin Research Centre has teamed up with colleagues from Computer Science department to successfully secure two British Council grants worth ~£400,000 (for a second year in a row) to support Women in STEM 2023/24 through the scholarships for Masters study and postdoctoral fellowships. The project team includes Prof. Xiaohong Gao, Dr. Kelly Androutsopoulos, Dr. Serengul Smith, Prof. Franco Raimondi, and Prof Huan Nguyen.

There are 6 scholarships and 4 fellowships to be advertised to the prospective candidates in the East/South Asia region. Watch out for this space!

Update: The positions are now open for application. Please see details in here.

The 15th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM) takes place in London, UK, on November 23 – 25. It is hosted by Middlesex University London and co-chaired by Prof Balbir Barn (LDTRC, Middlesex Uni) and Prof. Kurt Sandkuhl (University of Rostock, Germany). The conference aims to improve the understanding of the practice of Enterprise Modelling (EM) by offering a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector.

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• Prof. Balbir Barn is giving the following talk to the UK Government Dept of Levelling Up and Communities (the Chief Scientific Advisor’s Office) on the topic of “Sociotechnical Digital Twins for Complex Decision Making.” See the abstract below.
• A tutorial on “Digital Twin as a Decision-Making Aid in the Face of Uncertainty” was delivered by Prof Barn and the team at the ACM / IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS’ 22)
• Another tutorial on “A Model Based Approach to Simulation and Digital Twins” was delivered by the team at the ER 2022 conference.
• Two papers on sociotechnical digital twin were accepted for 2022 IEEE 24th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) and ACM / IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS). See details below.

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A delegation led by Ms Hoang Van-Anh, Head of Education (British Council Vietnam) and Assos. Prof. Nguyen Thu Thuy (General Director, Higher Education Department, Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam) has paid a visit to Middlesex University and the London Digital Twin Research Centre. The delegation has shown great interest in the lab and facilities from the centre, including the greenhouse and IoT facilities from the ongoing GGP project (with partner Van Lang Uni) funded by the British Council and the digital twin work for smart manufacturing project.

The delegation also includes Prof Tran Thanh Hai, Rector of Hanoi University of Mining and Geology and other representatives from University of Transport and Communications (Ho Chi Minh City campus), Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

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From 17th to 22nd August 2022, as part of the project activities, Prof. Huan Nguyen paid a visit to partner Universitas Gadjah Mada to work with the project team (Dr. Lutfan Lazuardi, Dr. Gunadi, Dr. Dini Prasetia Wati, Hanifah Wulandari, Fitratun Auliyah, Gabi Ceria) from Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing. The two project leads from Indonesia (Dr Yodi Mahendradhata, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UGM) and the UK (Prof. Huan Nguyen), with the witness of the two Vice Deans, Dr. Ahmad Hamim and Dr. Lina Choridah, have signed an MoU on this occasion to open platform for further research and teaching collaborations between the two universities, particularly on the areas of digital technology for public health. Prof. Nguyen also paid a visit to other project partners, Mlati II Primary Healthcare Centre and the UGM Academic Hospital.

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Middlesex University, UK and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Sri City, India are hosting a hybrid workshop on Skill-sets for technology-based employment for university graduates on Friday 15th July 2022, 09:00 to 13:30 (UK time) 13:30 to 18:00 (IST). The workshop is funded by the British Council under the Going Global Partnerships Grant and is aimed to disseminate the information on specific skill-sets required for next generation of university graduates, primarily in the area of Industry 4.0. The workshop would present the different technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Physical System (CPS), Wireless Communications and Digital Twins that the university graduates are required to have knowledge of.

The workshop aims at application domains of Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing and aspects of product life cycle and predictive maintenance The workshop would have invited talks from several UK and Indian academia and industry professionals on specific skill-sets for improving employability and the industrial applications. The workshop is a joint effort by Middlesex University, UK and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Sri City, India.

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As part of the work from Project “Digital twin for Industry 4”, the project team have developed deep learning techniques and advanced/timely solutions of Industrial IoTs, communication (e.g., Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface) to address the automation and smart processes in manufacturing and factory settings. The outcomes were accepted for publications in two journal papers on the highly reputed IEEE Journal of Internets of Things.

Paper 1: RIS-aided Smart Manufacturing: Information Transmission and Machine Health Monitoring

Paper 2: Unsupervised Deep Learning-based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Broadcasting Communications in Industrial IoTs

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On 31st March 2022, Prof. Huan Nguyen represented the London Digital Twin Research Centre (LDTRC) at the roundtable discussion organised by National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The event focused on sharing ideas and lessons on how developers and users can collaborate on digital twins for environment, as part of the ongoing project on information management framework funded by National Environmental Research Council – UK Research & Innovation (NERC-UKRI) and the Met Office.

The event included talks from NOC, National Digital Twin Programme (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), Joint Centre for Excellence in Environment Intelligence (Met Office), and Alan Turing Institute. Around 20 representatives from different departmental and research organisations were in attendance, e.g., the British Geological Survey (BGS), the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). During the event, Prof. Nguyen shared the lessons learnt on federated digital twins and data sharing currently implemented in various projects of smart factory, structures at LDTRC. Useful information was also shared and exchanged from other guests with a summary to be sent to the UK government to contribute and feed into the digital twin work programme.