SUSTAINABLE POWER CONVERSION LAB
Research Personnel
Xiaojun DENG
Research Fellow
Email: xiaojundeng@hnu.edu.cn
Research Direction: Power Electronics
Dr. Deng received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, in 2019, and completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2024. Since 2024, he has been a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His current research focuses on power electronics and advanced control algorithms.
Junxiang YANG
Research Assistant
Email: n2300178d@e.ntu.edu.sg
Research Direction: Electromagnetic Theory, Wireless Power Transfer
Mr. Yang received his B. Sc. degree in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 2024. He is presently employed as a Research Assistant, with a focus on metamaterials for wireless power transfer.
Junming ZENG
Research Associate
Email: zeng0141@e.ntu.edu.sg
Research Direction: Wireless Power Transfer, Advanced Control
Mr. Zeng received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and automation from the School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2020, M.Sc. degree in power engineering from NTU, Singapore, in 2021, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the NTU, Singapore, in 2024. He is currently working as a Research Associate at the same research lab. His current research interests include emerging wireless power transfer technologies.
Yao WANG
Research Fellow
Email: yao.wang@ntu.edu.sg
Research Direction: Wireless Power Transfer
Dr. Wang received Bachelor's and Master's degrees both in electrical engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. Since January 2020, He has been pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States, and received the Doctor Degree in September 2023. He joined Nanyang Technological University as a Research Fellow in December 2023. His research interests include high-power capacitive power transfer, inductive electric vehicle charging, high-frequency power conversion, wide bandgap device application, and solid-state DC circuit breaker design.
Yajie JIANG
Research Fellow
Email: yajie.jiang@ntu.edu.sg
Research Direction: Smart Grid, Electric Drives, Renewable Energy Technologies
Dr. Jiang graduated with his B.Eng. degree at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Zhengzhou University. He subsequently pursued his M.Eng. degree at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology before he joined The University of Hong Kong as a Ph.D. student. He has completed his Ph.D. study in 2022. From 2022 to 2023, he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He joined Nanyang Technological University as a Research Fellow in August 2023. His research interests include battery management systems and smart grid technologies.
Heshou WANG
Visiting Research Fellow
Email: herschel.wang@connect.polyu.hk
Research Direction: Wireless Power Transfer, Coil Design
Dr. Wang received his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. From 2018 to 2019, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he is currently a postdoctoral fellow. He serves as the Associate Editor for Wireless Power Transfer. His main research interests include applied electromagnetics, wireless power transfer, and electric vehicles.
Kaiwen CHEN
Visiting Research Fellow
Email: kwchen@polyu.edu.hk
Research Direction: Wireless Power Transfer, Advanced Control
Dr. Chen received his B.Sc. degree in Harbin Institute of Technology in 2016, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in 2017 and 2022, respectively. He is currently a Postdoc Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a visiting Research Fellow at the Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include wireless power transfer and advanced control technologies for power electronics.