Dr Irfan Madani BEng, MSc, PhD, MRAeS, MAIAA, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
Summary
Irfan joined Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in January 2019 and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering. Irfan received his MSc in Flight Dynamics from Cranfield College of Aeronautics and a PhD in Flight Navigation and Guidance Systems from the University of Sheffield.
Irfan's areas of expertise are avionic system design/aircraft design, flight navigation and guidance and CNS/ATM.
About
Irfan has more than four years’ experience in the aircraft industry working in aircraft flight testing for flight control, hydraulic and landing gear systems before he became an academic, involved in teaching aircraft systems, satellite-based navigation and inertial systems for some years and research in radar system, aircraft guidance, navigation and control, and flight trajectory optimisation.
In his previous positions, Irfan was a Technical Specialist for Cranfield University task-team, working on the EU Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative and as the Technical Manager of Cranfield's Tasks for Management of Trajectory and Mission WPs in the programme. From 2016 to 2018, he was also involved as a Senior Technical Ï㽶ÊÓƵer in EU's SESAR Exploratory Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Projects: AGENT and PARTAKE. He was also the Course Director of Aircraft Engineering MSc programme at Cranfield from 2014 to 2018.
During his time at Cranfield, Irfan had supervised many MSc projects in avionic systems as well as several PhD students in the area of airframe systems and avionics.
Irfan is a member of Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and Fellow of HEA (FHEA).
Teaching
Aerospace/Thermofluids
Aerospace Engineering
Aircraft Systems and Avionics, Aircraft Design, Aircraft Flight Mechanics and Simulation
Publications
Journal articles
Seresinhe, R., Lawson, C., & Madani, I. (2019). . CEAS aeronautical journal, 10 (2), 463-478.
Gatsinzi, D., Nieto, F.J.S., & Madani, I. (2019). . Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: journal of aerospace engineering, 233 (1), 261-284.
Gatsinzi, D., Saez Nieto, F.J., & Madani, I. (2018). ECAC Use Case of Optimised Pre-tactical Time of Arrival Adjustments to Reduce Probability of Separation Infringements. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51 (9), 186-192.
Gibbs, G., Jia, H., & Madani, I. (2018). . Transportation Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Procedia, 28, 173-182.
Conference papers
Zammit-Mangion, D., & Madani, I. (2018). . 2018 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference.
Gatsinzi, D., Nieto, F.J.S., & Madani, I. (2018). . IFAC Papers OnLine, 51 (9), 186-192.
Katta, B.R., & Madani, I. (2017). . 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI).
Madani, I., Gatsinzi, D., & Saez-Nieto, F.J. (2016). . In 6th SESAR Innovation Days, 8 November 2016 - 10 November 2016. SESAR Joint Undertaking:
Lawson, C., Madani, I., Seresinhe, R., & Nalianda, D.K. (2015). . SAE Technical Papers.
Madani, I., Seresinhe, R., Lawson, C., Shinkafi, A., & Quaglia, D. (2014). . In 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7 September 2014 - 12 September 2014. ICAS:
Shinkafi, A., Lawson, C., Seresinhe, R., Quaglia, D., & Madani, I. (2014). An intelligent ice protection system for next generation aircraft trajectory optimisation. 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2014.
Gu, W., Navaratne, R., Quaglia, D., Yu, Y., Madani, I., Sethi, V., ... Zammit-Mangion, D. (2013). . Volume 1: Aircraft Engine; Ceramics; Coal, Biomass and Alternative Fuels; Controls, Diagnostics and Instrumentation.
Madani, I., & Allerton, D. (2012). . AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit.