Dr Aymen Alshawi // @aymens.antics
Engineer brain. Garage instinct. A personal operating system built from impossible deadlines, active suspension, and the phrase: do it, then prove it works.
The public evidence
Aymen was the subject of the documentary Aymen - Don't Think, Just Do It!, following him as he built a superbike to ride up to 100mph on a test track despite no prior bike engineering or motorbike-riding experience.
Salford award articleThe film won Best Student Film at the 2023 International Motor Film Awards, held at Alexandra Palace.
Nomination contextSurrey lists Aymen's PhD thesis as Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Active Vehicle Suspension Systems.
Surrey thesis recordHis research appears in work on vehicle velocity, sideslip angle, tyre slip angles, and slip ratios in extreme driving manoeuvres.
MDPI paperThe mould-breaker map
Current mode
Aymen lives where elegant maths meets machines that misbehave. The point is not just to know the theory. The point is to make the thing hold together at speed.
Explorable CV
First-Class Honours, with projects touching race-car suspension and a silent bean-to-cup coffee machine.
PhD research in nonlinear model predictive control for active vehicle suspension systems.
A Hossack-derived double wishbone suspension build, framed as the project that became a documentary.
Aymen's story helped win Best Student Film at the 2023 International Motor Film Awards.
State estimation, sideslip, tyre slip, active safety, and control systems under extreme manoeuvres.
Motion history
Mechanical engineering, race-car thinking, and practical design projects.
Judging at Silverstone through the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, based on public LinkedIn snippets.
The superbike story becomes a short documentary.
The documentary wins at the International Motor Film Awards.
Surrey records the doctoral thesis in active vehicle suspension systems.
Vehicle dynamics toy
Antics archive
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Build photos, test day clips, parts everywhere.
PhD moments, publications, graduation, whiteboard chaos.
Friends, family, jokes, travel, the unpolished proof that he is not a template.
Cars, bikes, aircraft, track days, anything with attitude.
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