I am currently the Head of Electrical Power and Control Systems at the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical Engineering at Northumbria University, where I have been working since 2020. I also serve as the Delivery Group Chair in the management team of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Renewable Energy Northeast Universities (ReNU), a collaboration between Northumbria, Newcastle, and Durham Universities.

Before joining Northumbria University, I was part of the Electrical Power Research Group at Newcastle University from 2012 and continued as a guest staff member at the School of Engineering in 2020. As a postgraduate researcher, I was awarded a full PhD scholarship by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and the China Scholarship Council, completing my PhD in Power Electronics at Newcastle University in 2016. I then joined Prof. Volker Pickert's research team as a Research Associate until 2020, contributing to several major collaborative research projects, including two EPSRC and two Innovate UK-funded projects, with total funding exceeding £1.2 million.

In 2018, I had the honour of winning the Siemens European Competition in Power Electronics for my work on bidirectional wireless power transfer systems, beating over 200 proposals from across Europe. In 2020, I was appointed as an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of IET Power Electronics. I have also served as a management committee and technical programme chair for international conferences, including IEEE ECCE Europe 2025, ISEEIE 2025, IEEE PEAC 2022, and IEEE CoEEPE 2022. I am actively involved in technical committees for numerous conferences and regularly review for over 20 prestigious IEEE, IET, and Elsevier journals (e.g. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and Industrial Electronics).

As a full Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), I have developed and taught various MSc and undergraduate modules in electrical engineering, including Smart Energy Systems, Renewable Energy Technologies for Electricity Supply, and Analogue Electronics and Instrumentation. I currently supervise research projects for four PhD students, as well as multiple MSc and undergraduate students.

My research interests include electrical power conversion and advanced control algorithms for electric vehicles and renewable energy networks, health monitoring and condition control of next-generation wide bandgap (WBG) power modules, and wireless power transfer techniques. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications, three patents, and extensive collaboration with industry partners, I continue to explore innovative research directions. I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in pursuing research in these areas.

Feel free to contact me at [email protected].

• Design, modelling and control of power converters for electric vehicles (EV)/renewable energy network
• Health monitoring and condition control on the next generation wide bandgap (WBG) power modules
• Wireless power transfer techniques and control

Recent Grants:

• A novel PV-powered efficient outdoor lighting system with advanced battery management and optimised maximum power point tracking algorithm (£208,000) Innovate UK, KTP, PI, 2025.02-2027.02 (under review)
• Transforming Smart Homes: Integrating Photovoltaic Energy Router and Wireless Power Transfer with Metamaterial Technology for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications (£316,000), Newton International Fellowship, The Royal Society, PI, 2024.12-2026.12 (under review)
• Low-carbon engineering framework for a resilient water network using renewable energy and storage integration (RENU21/EE/MPEE/WU) (£100k) PI PhD studentship 2021-2025
• Current distribution measurement of Press-pack power module (£17,000), (Dynex semiconductor), PI, 2020-2021
• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Renewable Energy Northeast Universities (ReNU) (£5.476M) Co-I (EP/S023836/1) 2019-2026
• Solar Powered Wireless Power Transfer using innovative Multi-coil Resonance Array integrated in Thin Film Solar Cells. University Interdisciplinary Research Theme (IDRT) Research Fund, PI, (£10,000) 01/2023-06/2023
• Wireless power transfer kit - Commercial feasibility study research project (£20,000), Innovation fund Northumbria University, PI, 01/2022-12/2022
• NU: Opportunities Scheme - Internal Funding Bid - Electrical Power and Control Systems internship (£2,000) Project supervisor  2021