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Michael Short (born August 1975) is Professor of Control Engineering and Systems Informatics at Teesside University in the UK. He was previously at the University of Leicester. He received his BEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and his PhD (Robotics) from the University of Sunderland.

Michael is a full member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He has authored or co-authored over 150 reviewed publications, has given multiple keynote speeches and won five 'Best Paper' awards at major international conferences including the IEEE James C. Hung Award in 2011. He is associate section editor for the Energies International Journal.

Michael has appeared in all forms of media to discuss the impacts of his work, including television interviews and webcasts, live BBC radio interviews, magazine features/interviews   and print/online news. He was interviewed on BBC Radio Tees and featured in regional and national news articles regarding his role leading a University team involved in the Engineering response to manufacture PPE and Ventilators during 2020/2021 COVID-19 viral pandemic in the UK, Africa and India.

Selected publications

 * Short, M., Al-Greer, M. and Crosbie, T. Future Smart Grid Systems. ISBN 978-3-0365-1336-2 (Hbk); ISBN 978-3-0365-1335-5 (PDF)
 * Short, M., Crosbie, T., Dawood, M. & Dawood, N. (2017) “Load Forecasting and Dispatch Optimisation for Decentralised Co-generation Plant with Dual Energy Storage”, Applied Energy, Vol. 186, Issue P3, pp. 304-320, January 2017.
 * Short, M. and Pont, M.J. (2008). “Assessment of High-Integrity Embedded Automotive Control Systems using Hardware in the Loop Simulation”, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 81, No. 7, pp. 1163 – 1183.
 * Short, M. (2013) “Improved Inequalities for the Poisson and Binomial Distribution and Upper Tail Quantile Functions”, Probability & Statistics, Article ID 412958, December 2013.
 * Short, M. & Pont, M.J. (2007) “Fault-tolerant time-triggered communication using CAN”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 131-142.
 * Burn, K., Short, M. & Bicker, R. (2003) “Adaptive and Nonlinear Force Control Techniques Applied to Robots Operating in Uncertain Environments”, Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 391-400.