Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo

Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo (PhD, FIMechE, CEng, FHEA) is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, as well as the Head of Education for the School of Engineering at The University of Manchester. He has a diverse range of research specialties, owing to his blend of academic and industrial experiences. Some of the areas in which Akilu has developed notable international reputation include improving Occupational Safety & Health performance across high-risk sectors,...See more

Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo (PhD, FIMechE, CEng, FHEA) is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, as well as the Head of Education for the School of Engineering at The University of Manchester. He has a diverse range of research specialties, owing to his blend of academic and industrial experiences. Some of the areas in which Akilu has developed notable international reputation include improving Occupational Safety & Health performance across high-risk sectors, decarbonisation of high-energy industrial operations, building energy consumption prediction and optimisation, vibration-based condition monitoring of industrial machines, machine learning-based faults detection and diagnosis, construction projects risk classification, industrial asset management and reliability, etc., through collaborations with reputable research-focused institutions such as Health & Safety Executive (HSE-UK) InnovateUK, EPSRC, etc. He has supported the realisation of several externally funded research projects, either as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I). He has also generated over 140 technical publications in the form of high-impact journal articles, peer-reviewed conference articles, textbooks, book chapters, government commissioned reports and professional articles. See less