Fan Zheng, David

Biography

Dr Fan is currently an assistant professor in school of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. He obtained his PhD degree at Imperial College London, specialized in Non-Destructive Evaluation. Dr Fan’s research motivation is solve real inspection and monitoring problems in industry, achieved by conducting thorough scientific research. He has been involved in NDE research for 10 years, and he has extensive knowledge of cutting edge NDE technologies especially in ultrasound. His research focus is to develop novel NDE techniques for metal and composite inspection, structure health monitoring and material characterization, by integrating physics and modeling techniques with the development of rapidly exploitable technologies. He has collaborated with varies industries including Rolls-Royce, Shell, Petrobras, ABS, E.ON, EDF, etc for different research and consultancy projects. His research work has gained worldwide recognition, and he has won “Bob Chiver’s Prize” from Institute of Physics in the UK.

Research Interest

large area inspection using ultrasonic screening technology, structure health monitoring techniques, high resolution in NDT using advance signal processing methods and simulation and modelling of NDT/SHM techniques