N0MES CDT Annual Conference

Please note, the N0MES CDT Conference is being held in conjunction with the ICMTI and TSCRDT, and the CDT was kindly invited to participate by Professor Zaili Yang from LJMU, as one of the CDT’s Co-Investigators. The CDT would like to thank Professor Zaili Yang and the organising committees for the ICMTI and TSCRDT 2026 for inviting the CDT to participate in this prestigious international conference.

Thursday 27 August 2026

Merchant Suite

8:30

Registration and coffee

9:00

Welcome and Opening Ceremony: Professor Zaili Yang, (LJMU) and Professor John Bridgeman (UoL)

9:20

Keynote Talk 1 – Professor Xinping Yan, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

10:00

Keynote Talk 2 – Professor Carlos Guedes Soares, Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

10:40

Keynote Talk 3 - Danielle Lane, Director of Offshore Development UK for RWE (N0MES CDT)

11:20 - 11:50

COFFEE BREAK & GROUP PHOTO

11:50 - 13:00

Cohort 1 Student Presentations (Part 1) | Chair, Professor Andy Plater

Ahmed Balata - Towards Net-Zero Shipbuilding: Quantification of GHG Emissions from Construction and Maintenance Phases
Arslan Amin - AI-Based Detection and Attribution of Urban Air Pollution Sources in Port Cities
Boyuan Zhang - A Two-Stage Ship Route Extraction Method for Structured Waterways
Danah Albuhairi - Impact of flood hazard uncertainty on civil infrastructure vulnerability
Dat Nguyen - Optimising the Annual Delivery Program for Liquefied Natural Gas with Fair Customer Satisfaction
Hruthik Vandanapu - Binder Jet Printed 316L for Porous Transport Layer Applications in Seawater Electrolysis

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 2: Cohort 1 Student Presentations (Part 2) | Chair, Professor John Bridgeman

Jiale Xiang - Structuring Remote Human Intervention in Autonomous Ship Operation - An Event Sequence Diagram Approach
Nazmus Shakib - Multi-Step Maritime Trajectory Prediction in Port and Congested Waters Using AIS Data and Deep Sequence Learning
Sai Htet Aung - Making the invisible visible: a Study on Indoor Air Quality in Wirral
Stevie Howe - A Semi-Empirical Framework for Rapid Climate Risk Prioritisation of Coastal Railways
Tegan Quinn - Analysis of drowned gravel barriers on the English Channel seabed to assess the vulnerability of coastal energy infrastructure to sea-level rise
Yanchi Tang - A Two-Phase ISPH Model for Simulating Cohesive Sediment Flocculation under Wave Action: Towards Offshore Wind Decommissioning Applications
Yuchen Gu - Investigating the Drivers and Mechanisms of Historical Multi-Hazards in Northeast England Using Observational Data

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:00

Session 3: Cohort 2 Poster Presentations | Chair, Professor Thanh Trung Nguyen

Amin Niya - Creating Sustainable Fuel from Ocean Microplastics Using Plasma Conversion
Andrew Bourton - Policy Frameworks for Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration in Sustainable Maritime Energy Development
Jim Bridgeman - Unravelling the Data Behind Battery Fires
Joseph Blacksell - Effects of Offshore Wind Farms of the Distribution of Invasive Species
Kai Simpson - Machine Learning based metocean forecasting: Don't turn your back on the waves
Kazi Mahmud - Scenario-conditioned Sensor Reliability Assessment for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships
Mohammad Nawaz - Assessing the Financial Readiness and Transition Risk Exposure of UK Ports in the Net Zero Maritime Transition: A Multi-LLM Prototype Approach
Quisha Graham - Performance Prediction of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines under Coupled Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic Effects
Tiree Withers - Innovative Forward Osmosis Membranes for Sustainable Desalination
Xinyuan Li- Green Shipping Corridors Development for Maritime Decarbonisation: A Systematic Literature Review

16:45

Panel deliberations

17:00

Presentation and Poster Panel Prizes and Feedback and Closing Remarks

17:30

Close

18:30

Gala Dinner

Walk to The Liner Hotel, Lord Nelson Street.
Registration and drinks on arrival.
Table Plan – review for seating location.
Food choices - reminder sheet at registration table.
Dress code – smart casual/business wear.
Photography – please let Sara Parker know if you do not wish to appear on any photographs.

21.30

Carriages

We hope you enjoyed our first conference – safe travels home!