Malcolm McIvor was
one of the key people in ICI who helped establish CPACT in 1997 and he played a
prominent role in project supervision during the early stages of CPACT’s
activities. Malcolm enjoyed his engagement with CPACT and has generously
endowed a prize to be awarded annually to a researcher in recognition of that
individual’s achievement in process analytics and control technologies. The
prize recognises excellence in terms of scientific achievement, creative
thinking and/or engagement between academia and industry.
The CPACT Chair and
the selection panel, comprised of academic and industrial members of the CPACT
Industrial Management Board, decided that this year’s winner was Oliver
Pennington from the University of Manchester.
Oliver said "I
am absolutely delighted and deeply honoured to receive this award in
recognition of my research exploring industrial applications of machine
learning. I would like to sincerely thank my PhD supervisor, Dr. Dongda Zhang,
for nominating me and for his invaluable guidance, encouragement, and support
throughout my research journey. I am also incredibly grateful for the support
provided by everyone at CPACT, KEIT Industrial Analytics and the TOSI team at
AstraZeneca as they have all played key roles in facilitating my early research
career. I am excited to continue building on this work and I am looking forward
to further engagement with the CPACT community."
Congratulations Oliver!