Professor Dr Saim Memon
Industrial Leadership Vision Accomplishments
Professor Dr Saim Memon, CEO and Industrial Professor of Renewable Energy Engineering, delivers end-to-end translation of academic research into industrial R&D, mass manufacturing, and global market deployment, with a clear commercial and societal focus on practical net-zero delivery in real buildings and real supply chains. His work is defined by converting a concept into a validated invention and then into scaled products, exemplified by his invention of Vacuum Insulated Wallpaper (VIW), Vacuum Insulated Curtain (VIC) and Vacuum Insulated Heatable Curtain (VIHC), engineered to reduce heat loss, improve comfort, and enable cost-effective energy savings for individuals, homeowners, building construction, transport and storage projects, organizations, institutions and educators to save their energy consumption realistically. In recognition of this innovation pathway and the underlying R&D capability, he is a Winner of the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards 2025–2026 (Leeds, UK) for Best Innovative Building Materials R&D Company of the Year, and a Winner of the UK Enterprise Awards 2025, where Sanyou London was named Most Innovative Vacuum Insulation Energy Technology Company. He established and sustained a long-term, high-trust UK–China strategic partnership recognised worldwide through Jiangsu Sanyou Dior Energy-Saving New Materials in partnership with Sanyou London, while directing end-to-end business execution by administering financial operations and precise accounting records with external accountants, setting sales objectives, financial targets and collaboration pathways, architecting and managing the IT infrastructure, planning and governing the marketing budget, and delivering a cohesive marketing plan spanning digital initiatives, advertising and public relations, all within a workplace culture built on teamwork, open communication and shared knowledge across departments.
World’s First Digital Twin AI Professor AISaim in Electrical, Mechanical and Energy Engineering
On 24th July 2025, after nearly two years of in-depth AI and DeepMind learning and LLM training, I launched what, to the best of my knowledge, is the world’s first Digital Twin AI Professor, specialised in Electrical, Mechanical, and Energy Engineering, with advanced intelligence and reasoning: a large-language-model-based, hyper-realistic, full-body, lifelike digital AI professor that fuses my pedagogy, research, and industry experience. It is available everywhere, all the time, in multiple languages, and is designed to let knowledge and minds train, evolve, and live, with the clear goal of turning every learner worldwide into a high performer through high-quality education. This initiative underpins the Why Knowledge Philosophy and EnergyInnLight brands, and it has required end-to-end capability across LLM design and evaluation, data curation, prompt and tool orchestration, web development, presenting and directing, scriptwriting, visual design, cinematography, studio lighting, audio engineering, editing and colour grading, rights and licensing compliance for AI tools, and publishing and channel branding.
Academic Institutions
Professor Saim has held a range of academic roles in the UK and worldwide, including at the University of Huddersfield (England, UK); Loughborough University (England, UK); London South Bank University (England, UK); Staffordshire University (England, UK); NESCOL and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK); Arden University (Coventry, UK); Lancaster University (England, UK); Manchester Metropolitan University (England, UK); Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan); British University Egypt (Cairo, Egypt); the University of Mauritius (Moka, Mauritius); and Birmingham City University (England, UK). His UK and global academic collaborations continue to grow in service of the worldwide learning community.
Education & Certifications
Professor Saim built his academic research career in the UK, earned PhD in Mechanical, Electrical & Manufacturing Engineering (Loughborough University, England) [2013]; Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching Qualification (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) [2016]; MSc in Mechatronics (Staffordshire University, England) [2010]; and BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering (1st Class Distinction) (Mehran UET, Sindh) [2008]. Prof Saim is also a Chartered Engineer [2018] and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy [2016], holding Qualified Teacher Status [2016] granted by General Teaching Council for Scotland in the UK.
Research Expertise
Professor Saim has world-leading multidisciplinary research expertise in Electrical, Mechanical, and Renewable Energy Engineering. His specific research experiences encompass net-zero energy buildings, vacuum insulation, thermal management of electric vehicle batteries, translucent vacuum insulation panels, energy materials for vacuum insulated smart windows, vacuum-based photovoltaic solar thermal collectors, applied semi-transparent photovoltaics and switchable films, renewable energy technologies, thermoelectric devices for energy harvesting and smart grid integration into electric vehicles with fast-charging battery mechanisms.
Research Recognition
Professor Saim ranked in the top 0.7% worldwide in Energy, the top 1.3% in Electric Vehicles, and the top 1% in Engineering over the past five years, according to ScholarGPS. This recognition reflects extensive academic and research contributions, including 170+ research publications and 37+ industry articles for world communities. His work includes world-class publications in leading journals such as Energy, Energy Conversion & Management, Energy and Buildings, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Royal Society of Chemistry – Sustainable Energy & Fuels, and Vacuum, with broader publication reach across Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and IEEE. These contributions have resulted in more than 2,400+ citations, with an h-index of 28+ and an i10-index of 58+. He serves as an Editorial Board Member of Springer Nature’s Scientific Reports, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of STVE, and Guest Editor of Energies. He has also served as a Book Editor and Guest Editor across more than five journals and books, while continuing to review for 40+ impactful journals. Beyond publishing and editorial leadership, he has delivered 120+ invited, keynote, plenary, visiting professorial, and academic-industrial lectures, and has developed research and industrial collaborations across more than 31 countries worldwide. He secured in collaboration and converts competitive external support into capability and impact by building laboratory capacity and research delivery through grants and participation funding from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, British Council Newton Fund, EU H2020, Innovate UK, EPSRC, Chinese universities and research industries, and the Royal Academy of Engineering, alongside other institutional programmes supporting high-quality knowledge exchange and impactful research outcomes.
Teaching & Supervision
Throughout his teaching career, Professor Memon has delivered 41 modules as module leader in electrical, electronic, mechanical, and renewable energy engineering, consistently achieving over 90% student satisfaction. He has also successfully supervised numerous PhD, MSc, MEng and BEng (Hons) projects. Prof. Memon's academic leadership is further evidenced by his significant contributions as a Head of research group, degree apprenticeship programs lead, course director for MSc, MEng, and BEng (Hons) programmes, Deputy Head of the School of Engineering, and overseeing programme development, accreditation, and validation.
Global Community Contributions
Professor Saim has made substantial volunteer contributions over decades, significantly impacting students and the broader community through various elected roles and initiatives such as Honorary Secretory, Vice-Chair, Committee Member and Executive Officer at diverse institutions such as the IET, Institute of Physics, NUS, Staffordshire University and Loughborough University. His leadership in the Solar Car Challenge project, UK-Japan and UK-China projects exemplifies his commitment to practical engineering education. As the founder of many initiatives, he fostered academic-industrial engagement among students, researchers and educators. His extensive involvement in professional organizations underscores his dedication to enhancing academic, industrial and professional environments globally.