I am very pleased to announce and congratulate Kenneth Omokhagbo Afebu for successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Intelligent models for optimisation of the vibro-impact drilling system”, subject to minor corrections. Kenneth was supervised by me along with Dr Evangelos Papatheou.

The external examiner was Professor Zi-Qiang Lang from the University of Sheffield with the internal examiner, Dr Junning Chen and the independent chair, Dr Prakash Kripakaran.

After his viva, Kenneth will continue his research in my group working on the intelligent models for early detection of bowel cancer as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by EPSRC New Horizons (EP/V047868/1).