Member of the AFRC (NMIS)'s Digital Manufacturing Team and serves as the AFRC representative on the MIDIH project. The role involves raising awareness of the benefits of digital manufacturing technologies amongst Scottish manufacturing SMEs and supply chains, demonstrating available technologies and solutions, and providing links into appropriate support networks.

The Manufacturing Industry Digital Innovation Hubs (MIDIH) project is funded by the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under Grant agreement number 767498.

MIDIH website: https://midih.eu/

An I4MS initiative: https://i4ms.eu/

Project Factsheet: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/211689/factsheet/en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MIDIH_EU

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeggravnGqkVcflBNn36oGA

Shawki Al-Dubaee holds BEng in Computing Technology, MSc in Computer Engineering, MBA in IT and PhD in Computer Engineering. He currently works as a Partnership Development Leader, Advanced Forming Research Centre- NMIS, at the University of Strathclyde. He worked as a teaching assistant and an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.

From 2011 to 2015, Al-Dubaee was an Assistant Professor at the Communication and Computer Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Taiz University (Yemen), and Head of the Information Technology Department (Nov 2011 to Sep 2014) as well as Head of the Computer Networks and Distributed System Department, CNDS (Sep 2012 to Sep 2014). While at Taiz University, Al-Dubaee also worked as a Team leader within the Quality Improvement Program for Computer Networks and Distributed System program, sponsored by the World Bank and the Ministry of Higher Education (Jul 2013 to Mar 2015).

Al-Dubaee has a good experience as a Full Stack Web Developer using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, ES6, Nodejs, Express, Passportjs, React, React Native, Docker, NodeRED, TensorFlow and PyTorch frameworks.