Michael Short (engineer)
Michael Short (born August 1975) is Professor of Control Engineering and Systems Informatics and leads the Centre for Sustainable Engineering at Teesside University in the UK. He received a BEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in 1999 and a PhD (Robotics) in 2003 from the University of Sunderland. He was previously at the University of Leicester until 2009, and was made Reader (Professor) in January 2015 and full (Chair) Professor (by Research) in August 2020 Michael is a full member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) since 1999, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA ) since 2012 and a member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technical Committee on Factory Automation (TCFA) since 2012. As of August 2021, he has authored or co-authored over 150 reviewed publications and won five awards including the IEEE James C. Hung Award for best paper in Factory Automation in 2011. He is associate section editor for the Energies International Journal. He has made scholarly contributions in several areas, including probability and statistics, real-time systems and scheduling, embedded systems and control, robotics and smart grid. As of August 2021 he has a H-index of 21 and an  i-10 index of 38. Michael has appeared in most forms of media to discuss the impacts of his work, including public webcasts, invited/keynote speeches and radio broadcasts, magazine features/interviews and print/online news. He has contributed to UK Science and Technology Committee (House of Lords) inquiries. He was interviewed on BBC Radio and featured in news articles regarding his role in the international response to manufacture PPE and Ventilators during the 2020/2021 waves of the COVID-19 viral pandemic.