Michael Short

Michael Short (born August 1975) is Professor of Control Engineering and Systems Informatics and leads the Centre for Sustainable Engineering at Teesside University in the UK. He received a BEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in 1999 and a PhD (Robotics) in 2003 from the University of Sunderland. In 2012 he was also awarded a PGCHE from Teesside University. He was previously at the University of Leicester until 2009, and was made Reader (Professor) in January 2015 and full (Chair) Professor (by Research) in August 2020. As of November 2022, he has authored or co-authored over 200 reviewed publications with over 2,100 citations, and won six awards including the IEEE James C. Hung Award for best paper in Factory Automation in 2011. As of December 2024 he has a H-index of 27 and an i-10 index of 56. Since 2003 he has been Principal or Co-Investigator on multiple completed and ongoing funded research and innovation projects, and also led the winning entry to the 2021 Abu Dhabi-Singapore Smart Cities Open Innovation Challenge to develop new energy efficiency solutions for buildings in Abu Dhabi. He is associate section editor for the Energies International Journal and associate editor for the Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Technologies International Journal. He has made scholarly contributions in several areas, including probability and statistics, real-time systems and scheduling, embedded systems and control, robotics and smart grid.

Michael has appeared in most forms of media to discuss the impacts of his work, including public webcasts, invited/keynote speeches, plenary lectures, and radio broadcasts, magazine features/interviews and print/online news. He has contributed to several UK Science and Technology Committee (House of Lords) inquiries, and has led authorship of a commissioned report on digital trade for the UK Government. In summer 2020 was interviewed on BBC Radio and featured in news articles regarding his role in the international response to manufacture PPE and Ventilators during the 2020/2021 waves of the COVID-19 viral pandemic. In November 2022 he was featured on BBC Television and in news articles after being listed as one of the ten most influential people in the UK working within the Net Zero agenda. In December 2024 he was interviewed by NewsX following appearances as one of four UK academics on the 2024 GREAT Tour of India.