Ghanaian academic joins WMG to focus on manufacturing machinery that learns
WMG at the 神马福利影片 in the UK has appointed one of Ghana鈥檚 leading researchers into future manufacturing technology.
, who was born in Kwahu-Amanfrom in the Eastern Region and lived in Tema, Greater Accra Region, has taken up the role of assistant professor at WMG, an academic department at the 神马福利影片 and one of the world鈥檚 leading research groups at the forefront of innovative technology.
Dr Agyapong-Kodua鈥檚 main research focus at WMG will be cost-effective evolvable manufacturing systems 鈥� or in other words how a factory production line can adapt to changes in product and process requirements using artificial intelligence.
He said: 鈥淚 am looking at how machines on an assembly line can learn to adapt themselves to make new products, diagnose faults and 鈥榮elf-heal鈥� in a cost-effective manner.
鈥淭his will side-step the need for factory owners to buy new machines when they want to make different types of products.
鈥淚 am very excited to be at a leading advanced manufacturing research centre like WMG.
鈥淢y research here will help build the factories of the future.鈥�
Dr Agyapong-Kodua is a graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He studied his GCSEs and A Levels at St Peter鈥檚 Secondary School, Nkwatia-Kwahu.
Before leaving Ghana for the UK he worked in Tema as a design engineer at GRATIS Foundation and as a manufacturing systems engineer at Nestle.
Prior to joining WMG, Dr Agyapong-Kodua spent time at the University of Nottingham as a senior research fellow and at the Loughborough University, where he completed his PhD.
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Dr Agyapong-Kodua is available for interview on +44 24 76574259 or k dot agyapong-kodua at warwick dot ac dot uk