N0MES CDT Conference Schedule

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Thursday 27 August 2026

MAIN ROOM
8.30am

Registration and coffee

9.00am

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

9.20am

Keynote speech – Xinping Yan

9.50am

Keynote speech – Carlos Guedes Soares

10.20am

Keynote Speech - Danielle Lane, RWE (N0MES CDT)

10.50am – 11.10am

Break

11.10am – 12.30pm

Session 1 x 6 student presentations (10 minutes each)

  • 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
12.30pm – 1.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm – 3.00pm

Session 2 x 7 student presentations (10 minutes each)

  • Jiale - Structuring Remote Human Intervention in Autonomous Ship Operation - An Event Sequence Diagram Approach
  • Nazmus - Multi-Step Maritime Trajectory Prediction in Port and Congested Waters Using AIS Data and Deep Sequence Learning
  • Sai - Making the invisible visible: a Study on Indoor Air Quality in Wirral
  • Stevie - A Semi-Empirical Framework for Rapid Climate Risk Prioritisation of Coastal Railways
  • Tegan - Analysis of drowned gravel barriers on the English Channel seabed to assess the vulnerability of coastal energy infrastructure to sea-level rise
  • Yanchi - A Two-Phase ISPH Model for Simulating Cohesive Sediment Flocculation under Wave Action: Towards Offshore Wind Decommissioning Applications
  • Yuchen - Investigating the Drivers and Mechanisms of Historical Multi-Hazards in Northeast England Using Observational Data
2.50pm – 3.20pm

Break

3.30pm – 4.40pm

Session 3 Poster Presentation Panel (via PowerPoint) Hosted by AP

  • Cohort 2 researchers x 14 (x 3 mins each, 2 mins for questions)
4.40pm

Panel deliberations

4.50pm

Presentation and Poster Panel Prizes, Feedback and closing remarks

5.15pm

Close

6.30pm

Gala Dinner

  • Walk to The Liner Hotel, Lord Nelson Street
10.30pm

Carriages