Prof Michael Short

Michael Short is Professor of Control Engineering and Systems Informatics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Engineering within the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies at Teesside University in the UK. He is also a visiting Professor at VIT Chennai in India and External Examiner at RGU Aberdeen in the UK. He holds a BEng degree in electronic and electrical engineering (1999, Sunderland) and a PhD degree in real-time Ai and robotics (2003, Sunderland). Michael’s research interests encompass aspects of applied control engineering and systems informatics applied to smart energy systems and robotics. He is PI or co-I on over twenty completed or ongoing funded research and innovation projects in these areas and has authored over 220 reviewed publications in international conferences and journals, having over 2500 citations. He has supervised twelve PhD completions, has won eight best paper awards, is a full member of the IET and IEEE, and is also a fellow of the HEA. In both 2023 and 2025 he was independently named as one of the UK’s ten most influential individuals working on the Net Zero and Digital agendas in the UK.