Director: KES International Research
Visiting Professor in Sustainable Innovation, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK
Visiting Professor, 'Aurel Vlaicu' University of Arad, Romania
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3939-365X
- Bob Howlett is the Academic Chair of KES International a non-profit organisation which facilitates knowledge transfer and the dissemination of research results in areas including Intelligent Systems, Sustainability, and Knowledge Transfer.
- Bob's technical expertise is in the use of artificially intelligent systems in the solution of industrial problems. He has been successful in applying neural networks, expert and fuzzy methods, and related technology to sustainability and renewable energy systems; condition monitoring, diagnostic tools and systems; automotive electronics and engine management systems. He has made a national contribution in the fields of knowledge and technology transfer, the commercialisation of research, and the third-mission agenda.
- His current interests centre on the application of intelligent systems to sustainability, particularly renewable energy, integrated energy systems and applications in housing, glasshouse horticulture and vertical farming.
- Bob is Visiting Professor in Sustainable Innovation, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK, also Visiting Professor at 'Aurel Vlaicu' University of Arad, Romania, and he has been Visiting Professor for Enterprise at Bournemouth University, UK. For 20 years he was a member of faculty at Brighton University, UK.
He works with a number of universities, for example Cardiff Metropolitan University, on the supervision teams of doctoral students, and providing technical input to projects.
News!
Call for Proposals for Chapters for a new book "Innovations for Resilient and Secure Food Production Systems" planned to be published in the Springer ASST series - see a PDF Call for Contributions .. here ..
Workshop on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production
To be held at the KES International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, 17-19 September 2025, Catania, Sicily, Italy
See a PDF Call for Papers .. here ..
Bob is a series co-editor of two book series published by Springer:-Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies
and
Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology
We welcome high quality proposals for new volumes of conference proceedings or research monographs.
Bob is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
abstracted/indexed in: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and Web of Science Core Collection,
Engineering Index (EI) Compendex, SciVerse Scopus, and other places.