Aparajithan Sivanathan

Dr Aparajithan Sivanathan leads the 5G Factory of the Future Testbed programme and also heads up the digital manufacturing theme at Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (North-West), University of Sheffield. Sivanathan comes from a multidisciplinary background of manufacturing, electronics, and computing. He received an MSc in Mechatronics engineering from King’s College London and a PhD from Heriot-Watt University.

Sivanathan has received a number of prestigious research grants from DCMS, Innovate UK, EPSRC Network Plus, HVMC and funds from various key industrial players in the country, including BAE Systems. Before entering the research career, he worked as an R&D engineer in the electronics manufacturing industry. His current research interests generally fall into the area of 5G for manufacturing, real-time human-in-the-loop systems, knowledge capture, manufacturing informatics, cyber physical spaces, Industry4.0, Industrial IoT