Dr Jun Chen
Reader in Intelligent Systems Engr
School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Intelligent Transportation Systems, Air Traffic Management, Optimisation and Search Algorithms, Operational Research, Explainable AI, Guidance and Control Systems
Interests
My research interests lie at the interface of Computer Science, Operational Research and Control Engineering with a significant overlap with Systems Engineering. Over the years, I have consolidated and structured my research along three themes: modelling, optimisation and decision, four cross-cutting application areas: intelligent decision support for transportation systems, human factors & brain-computer interface, future flight deck automation systems and design & optimisation of complex networks, sponsored by EPSRC and industry and supported by the well-balanced research team consisting of senior academics, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students.
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Advanced Robotics
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Advanced Robotics
2026
Sequence-based selection hyper-heuristics with a Prolog knowledge-based system for real-world network design optimisationArpaci A Drake JH Glover T Chen J
Expert Systems With Applications,
Elsevier vol. 321
01-07-2026A robust multi-objective optimisation method for airport ground movementLi J Chen J Wang X
Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies,
Elsevier vol. 188
01-07-2026 A multi-objective multigraph A* algorithm with online likely-admissible heuristics using walk-based shallow embeddingsLiu S Weiszer M Zhang J Wang X Burke EK Chen J
Expert Systems With Applications,
Elsevier vol. 304
01-04-2026
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Advanced Robotics
(EPSRC IDLA - NATS Industrial Contribution) Probabilistic Simulation for Airport Airside Operations: Uncertainty Quantification and OptimisationXinwei Wang and
Jun Chen£60,000
NATS Limited01-09-2025 - 31-08-2029 EPSRC ICASE - Routing and Scheduling Movements at Airports Considering Interdependence and IntermediJun Chen£34,968
NATS Limited01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 EPSRC DTP Mobility 2020Eram Rizvi,
Mark Sandler, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns and
Jun Chen£1,705,691
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-10-2020 - 30-04-2028 iCASE Award Industrial Contribution BTJun Chen and John Drake
£36,000
British Telecommunications PLC01-10-2019 - 30-04-2027
Non-probabilistic reliability calibration method and error compensation strategy for precision assembly robot based on workspace partitionJun Chen and Michal Weiszer
£11,000
Royal Society31-03-2023 - 31-12-2025 Intelligent Control of Sewer NetworksJun Chen£30,653
Anglian Water Group LTD20-01-2019 - 31-01-2021 Flexible Innovation Starter Fund (IAA)Michal Weiszer and
Jun Chen£5,000
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-01-2019 - 31-03-2020 Simulation platform for airport ground movementMichal Weiszer and
Jun Chen£9,474
AVISU Ltd03-09-2018 - 30-09-2020 Transferring an Intelligent Pump Controller onto a Hardware Platform – Phase 5: Advanced FunctionaliJun Chen£18,469
Anglian Water Group LTD18-09-2017 - 17-09-2018 TRANSITJun Chen£192,753
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-06-2017 - 31-08-2022
Research Group
PhD Students
- Feezan Akhtar
Routing and Scheduling Movement At Airports Considering Interdependence & Intermediate Holding. - Olivia Jelks
Rich Simulation Driven Design Optimisation - Nadeem Khondokar
Trustable Public Transit Through Integrated Multimodal Transit Networks and Trip Planning - Jiaxing Li
Towards Intelligent Decision Support and Risk Assessment Transport Systems - Francisco Parra Perea
Integrated Airport Airside Simulation, Control & Decision-Making - Yinghao Qin
Effective Energy and Infrastructure Management Through Simulation-Based Optimisation - Tingting Yang
Trustable Public Transit Through Integrated Multimodal Transit Networks and Trip Planning
