Wuliang is Professor of Electromagnetic Sensing and Instrumentation. 

He has authored more than 400 refereed journal and conference papers and has >40 patents granted. He is leading and involved in a number of EPSRC and EU funded projects. 

He is a recipient of 2014 and 2015 Williams Award from The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining; 2016 Best Graduate Student Paper from the IEEE I2MTC conference, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025  IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Graduate Fellowship as supervisor, 2021 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Best Application Award, 2024 William Gardner Award from the BINDT, Excellent Paper Award – Agilent Measurement Forum in 2000 and National Scientific and Technical Progress Award by the Chinese Government in 1999. 

He is an IEEE Senior Member, an EPSRC college member, Fellow of IET and BINDT.

• IEEE Senior Member 
• Fellow of IET
• BINDT

Measurement systems and instrumentation design, electromagnetic induction, Eddy currents, Tomographic imaging, Magnetics, Non-destructive testing, Robotic Inspection.

Currently he

• supervises 8 PhD students and 2 PDRAs.

1. Dr Mingyang Lu
2. Jorge Salas Avila
3. Dr Yang Tao
4. Shupei Wang
5. Hanyang Xu
6. Jiawei Tang
7. Liming Chen
8. Ziqi Chen
9. Ruochen Huang
10. Qiaoye Ran

• leads three projects:

1. TSB project (Develop, embed and exploit advanced electromagnetic modelling capabilities in MT Safeline for improved metal detector design with improved sensitivity to discriminate contaminants, 2014-2016)
2. Safeline sponsored industrial project (Towards high performance metal detector through system modelling and optimisation, 2014-2017)
3. EPSRC project (Electromagnetic tensor imaging for in-process welding inspection, 2015-2018).

•  Previous team members:

1. Dr Yifei Zhao
2. Dr Ziqiang Cui, Tianjin University
3. Dr Sergio Alberto Rodriguez Gutierrez
4. Dr Wenru Fan, Civil Aviation University of China
5. Prof. Zhijie Zhang, North China University
6. Yantao Liu, Beijing Institute of Structure and Environment Engineering
7. Dr Hongjun Sun, Tianjin University
8. Dr Jinkai Chen, Zhejiang University
9. Dr Zhaoming Zhou,  Southwest Petroleum University
10. Dr Yuedong Xie, Warwick University
11. Dr Chao Liu, Oxford University
12. Dr Qian Zhao, Qufu Normal University
13. Dr Lifeng Zhang, North China Power University

Wuliang has supervised and co-supervised more than 30 PhD students to completion.  Some of them have become leading scientists, professors and engineers in USA (Stanford and Iowa), UK (ARM) and China (Beihang, Central South and Fuzhou University, Alibaba etc.)

Prospective students are encouraged to apply in the areas of:

• Measurement and instrumentation 
• Sensors and sensing technologies
• FPGA, DSP and signal processing
• Tomographic imaging
• Sensor-driven robotics

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