Engr. Stanislus Tochukwu Ukwuani

Engr. Stanislus Tochukwu Ukwuani is a multidisciplinary engineer, researcher and technology entrepreneur whose experience spans mechanical and production engineering, advanced materials, radio frequency engineering, metamaterials and metasurfaces, intelligent sensing systems, industrial automation and predictive maintenance.

He holds an MSc in Engineering Smart Systems from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, alongside bachelor's and master's degrees in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Enugu State University of Science and Technology in Nigeria.

He is the Founder and Director of TOCHBLIZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD, a UK based engineering research and technology development company specialising in advanced materials, RFID antenna sensors, structural health monitoring, electromagnetic modelling and intelligent industrial monitoring solutions.

He is also the Founder and Managing Director of TOAN Engineering and Services Limited, working across mechanical engineering design, industrial maintenance, equipment fabrication, prototype development, agro processing machinery and technical engineering services.

His professional leadership includes serving as Chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechE), Enugu Chapter from 2019 to 2021, a member of the NIMechE National Council from 2018 to 2021, and Secretary of the NIMechE Enugu Chapter from 2017 to 2019. He also served as Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Enugu Branch from 2016 to 2019, contributing to professional engagement, engineering advocacy and institutional development.

He applies machine learning and innovative manufacturing methods to early fault detection, industrial reliability and sustainable engineering.

The ASSET 2026 technical programme lists him on the Steering Committee with a Manchester Metropolitan University affiliation, and as a coauthor of contributions on fish feed processing optimisation, holographic metasurface beamformers and radio frequency communication for UAVs and drones. He is also named as a coauthor of 2026 preprints on AI enabled wake scheduling, security benchmarks and wireless power transfer for FR3 ultra massive MIMO systems and IoT networks.