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My current research interests are investigating the reliability and efficiency of power semiconductor devices in high voltage power electronics converters in smart grids, electric vehicles drive-trains and more-electric-aircrafts, aiming to address global warming.

Research Group: Electrical Energy Management Group (EEMG)
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/em/

Personal Portal:
https://www.semi-sentinel-analytics.com/

Current PhDs as first supervisor:

  1. Renze Yu:
    Degradation of Planar & Trench SiC MOSFETs in Repetitive Short Circuits
  2. Mana Hosseinzadehlish:
    Electrothermal Reliability of Unipolar & Bipolar SiC Power Transistors
  3. Xiangyu Wang:
    Reliability Evaluation of GaN Power Devices for Electric Vehicles
  4. Yisi Liu:
    Evaluation of Degradation of 4th Generation SiC Power MOSFETs

Current PhDs as second supervisor:

  1. Trevor Leung:
    Reliability of GaN power eHEMTs Under Power Cycling
  2. Qilei Wang:
    Active Gate Driving for SiC power Devices
  3. Yushi Wang:
    Enhanced Gate Current Sensing for GaN and SiC Power Devices
  4. Matt Appleby:
    SiC Power Electronics for Grid-Connection of Wind Turbines
  5. Gaurav Sen:
    Smart Power Systems for Sustainable Development 
  6. Mohan Zhang:
    Design of Power Electronics Converters for Power Systems

Completed PhDs as the first supervisor:

  1. Dr. Yasin Gunaydin:
    Analysis of Performance and Reliability of Sub-kV SiC and GaN Cascode Power Electronics Device
    PhD Thesis Available on:
    https://hdl.handle.net/1983/8b9a25a2-9326-4539-ad4a-4db1e7d928c2
  2. Dr. Chengjun Shen:
    Analysis of Performance of SiC Bipolar Semiconductor Devices for Grid-level Converters
    PhD Thesis Available on:
    https://hdl.handle.net/1983/5580e55e-899d-43e0-9c4c-2dc3d1cfc2bb
  3. Dr Juefei Yang:
    Reliability Analysis of Planar and Symmetrical & Asymmetrical Trench Discrete SiC Power MOSFETs
    PhD Thesis Available on:
    https://hdl.handle.net/1983/b1b791f1-f296-4237-9d4b-2de2dc7d1ca2

Completed MRes as the second supervisor:

  1. Sergejs Leonovs:
    Alleviating Oscillations in GaN power circuits through Active Gate Drive Control and Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization 
    MRes Thesis Available on:
    https://hdl.handle.net/1983/cd919bd8-aeec-4773-b04d-3a3ac1966d03

Current Post-Doctorate Researchers:

  1. Dr Zhaobo Zhang:
    High-Density Active SiC Power Electronic: Enabling Responsive Power Conversion
  2. Renze Yu:
    High-Density Active SiC Power Electronic: Enabling Responsive Power Conversion
  3. Mana Hosseinzadehlish:
    Innovation and Knowledge Centre: Transforming Net Zero (REWIRE)

Past Post-Doctorate Researchers:

  1. Dr Liu Li:
    Study on High Temperature Characteristics of SiC MOS Devices

PhD Viva Examiantion
I am acting as a PhD Viva Examiner in Electrical Power Engineering.

PhD Scholarships
Candidates interested in a PhD in Power Electronics should directly email their CV.

School Service
I am currently the EEME School's Director for Culture and Inclusitivity. Previously I was the SCEEM School's Senior International Tutor. 

Teaching
2025/25 Teaching:
Lecturer for the Power Electronics, Machines & Drive Technologies and Power Electronics Systems units. 

2023/24 Teaching:
Lecturer for the Power Electronics, Machines & Drive Technologies unit, Unit Director for the Low Carbon Energy Systems and the Mech-Elec 3rd Year Group Industrial Project

2022/23 Teaching:
Unit director for the Power Electronics, Machines & Drive Technologies and Low Carbon Energy Systems units, and Unit Director for Mech-Elec 3rd Year Group Industrial Project.

2021/22 Teaching: 
Unit director for the Power Electronics, Machines & Drive Technologies and Low Carbon Energy Systems units, and Unit Director for Mech-Elec 3rd Year Group Industrial Project.

2020/21 Teaching: 
Unit director for the Power Electronics, Machines & Drive Technologies unit and Contributor to Electro-Mechanical System Design and academic tutor for the EEE 3rd Year Group Project.

2019/20 Teaching: 
Unit director for the Linear Control Systems and Industrial Electronics 3 units and academic tutor for the EEE 3rd Year Group Project.

2018/19 Teaching:
Unit director for the Linear Control Systems and Industrial Electronics 3 units.

 

Research Groups and Themes

  • Cabot Institute Low Carbon Energy Research
  • Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
  • Electrical Energy Management

Keywords

  • Power Electronics
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Smart Grids
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Wide bandgap semiconductors

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