Kayode Owa

Delivery

Major research programmes & awarded funding

Roles on large, competitive programmes I have contributed to as a researcher or consultant — plus principal-investigator funding with published outputs.

Programmes and funding

€7 milliontotal consortium budget

EU Horizon 2020 — OPTIMISED

Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Industry 4.0 consortium at seven-million-euro scale: AI-driven optimisation, simulation, and digital-twin style frameworks for adaptive production planning — with disseminated outputs including IOS Press publication and industry-facing demonstrations.

£2 milliontotal programme budget

EPSRC AI2M — Artificial Intelligence for Manufacturing

Optimisation Consultant, Loughborough University

EPSRC programme at two-million-pound scale: hybrid optimisation algorithms for manufacturing scheduling, integrating metaheuristics and control-theoretic ideas — delivering demonstrators and publications alongside consortium partners.

£10,000

AI-based defect detection for industrial fastener quality control

Nottingham Trent University — Internal Research Collaboration Fund · Principal Investigator

Led an international collaboration (with Punjab University, India) developing CNN-based inspection for fasteners, using Taguchi-style experimental design to optimise model configuration — reporting strong validation performance and a peer-reviewed Springer chapter.

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