Mr. Phillip David Brierley is a Research Engineer on the doctorate programme at Cranfield University in England. He was born on March 25th, 1969 and continues to reside in England at 65 Hurst Grove, Queens Park, Bedford MK40 4DN
EDUCATION :
Hull University - B.Eng. (Hons.) First Class in Engineeering Design and Manufacture (1991)
Cardiff University - M.Sc. in Energy Studies (1993)
Cranfield University - Engineering Doctorate (1994-1998)
SECONDARY EDUCATION:
Saddleworth School, Oldham (1980-1987)
�O� Levels (1985) 9 including Mathematics (A) English language(B)
�AO� Levels (1986) Mathematics (A)
�A� levels (1987) General Studies (B) Geography (B) Mathematics (A) Physics (A)
TERTIARY EDUCATION:
Hull University (1987-1991)
University of Wales College of Cardiff (1991-92)
Cranfield University (1994-98)
Undergraduate B.Eng. (Hons.) first class in Engineering Design and Manufacture
IMechE outstanding final year project award
Departmental final year award
Industrial Sponsorship from GEC
PROJECT WORK:
An investigation into the effects of cavitation shock waves on the cell structure of rapeseed with the intention of facilitating oil extraction. This work was in collaboration with De Smet - Rosedowns and supervised by Dr. Alan Cummings.
Postgraduate M.Sc in Energy Studies (Cardiff):
Concerned with the use of Stirling engines as in-house CHP units. This involved the design and construction of a waste heat recovery system for an existing engine and the computer modelling of engine losses.
Doctorate Engineering Doctorate Programme (Cranfield):
The work is sponsored by Eastern Electricity and is involved with the use of neural networks and genetic algorithms in the electricity industry. The enhanced doctorate programme involved spending six months in the Cranfield school of management following parts of the MBA course as a section of the thesis has to involve management issues.
Conference Papers:
P.D.Brierley and W.J.Batty, �Electric Load Modelling with Neural Networks : An Insight into the Black Box� Progress in Connectionist- Based Information Systems, Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Information Systems (ICONIP 97), Dunedin, New Zealand, vol. 2 pp. 1326-1329.
P.D.Brierley and W.J.Batty, �Neural Data Mining and Modelling for Electric Load Prediction� Engineering Benefits from Neural Networks, Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN98), Gibraltar, 10-12th June 1998,pp.237-244.
Journal Papers (under review):
P.D.Brierley and W.J.Batty, �Genetic optimisation of domestic hot water supply based on real time pricing of electricity� - (Electrical Power Systems Research)
P.D.Brierley and W.J.Batty, �Neural model predictive control of domestic electric storage heating using genetic optimised scheduling� - (Electrical Power Systems Research)
Chapters in Edited Books:
P.D.Brierley, �Data mining with neural networks - an applied example in understanding electricity consumption patterns� appearing in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (IEE Publication)
Lectures:
Knowledge discovery and data mining - colloquium organised by IEE professional group A4 (artificial intelligence), 8th May 1998.