Faculty Directory

Prof Zhao Yang Dong
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Prof Z.Y. Dong is a Professor in School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. His previous roles include Director of UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, Ausgrid Chair Professor and Director of Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks led R&D support for the Smart Grid, Smart City national demonstration...

Research Interests: Power systems, Renewable energy systems, Energy storage and Smart Cities.

Prof Lalit Kumar Goel
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Lalit Goel obtained his BTech Degree in electrical engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India in 1983, and his MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1988 and 1991 respectively. He joined the School of EEE at the Nanyang...

Research Interests: Power system reliability, Cost/benefit considerations, Deregulated power markets, Renewable energy and Power system analysis.

Prof Wang Youyi
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Wang Youyi received his B.Eng. degree from Beijing University of Science and Technology in 1982, the M. Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 1984, and the PhD degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1991, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Wang Youyi joined the School of Electrical...

Research Interests: Nonlinear control, robust control to power and energy systems, electric drive systems, information storage systems, fuel cell systems, renewable energy systems and MEMS systems.

Prof Wang Peng
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Peng Wang received his B.Sc. degree from Xian Jiaotong University, China, in 1978, the M. Sc. degree from Taiyuan University of Technology, China, in 1987, and the M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1995 and 1998, respectively...

Research Interests: Power system planning and operation; Renewable energy planning; Solar/electricity convesion system; Power market; Power system reliability analysis.

Prof Josep Pou
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Josep Pou received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)-Barcelona Tech. He was the top student in the Bachelor graduating class, received the Master Degree with first-class honours, and was awarded the Extraordinary Ph.D. Thesis...

Research Interests: His research interests include power electronics, multilevel converters, energy generation from renewable sources, energy storage, power quality, HVDC transmission systems, and more electric aircraft and vessels.

Prof Ron Hui
Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Professor Ron Hui received his BSc (Eng) Hons at the University of Birmingham in 1984 and a D.I.C. and PhD at Imperial College London in 1987. He was a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK in 1987–90. In 1990, he joined the University of Technology, Sydney, and was appointed Senior Lecturer at the...

Research Interests: Power Electronics – electric power conversion, planar coreless transformer technology, wireless power transfer, sustainable lighting technology, renewable energy technologies and smart grid technology.

Assoc Prof Hoay Beng Gooi
Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

H. B. GOOI received his PhD degree from Ohio State University in 1983.  From 1983 to 1985 he was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. From 1985 to 1991, he was a Senior Engineer with Empros (now Siemens), Minneapolis, Minnesota...

Research Interests: Energy Management Systems, Forecast & Scheduling Applications, and Network Applications.

Assoc Prof Tang Yi
Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Yi Tang received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2007 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in power engineering from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2008 and 2011, respectively...

Research Interests: Power Electronics, Power Quality, Renewable Energy, Energy Storage, Smart Grid.

Assoc Prof Xu Yan
Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Dr Xu received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2008 and 2011, and PhD degree from The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, in 2013, all in electrical engineering...

Research Interests:  Power System, Smart Grid, Data Analtyics, Microgrid

Assoc Prof Ali Iftekhar Maswood
Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

A. I. Maswood received his M. Eng. Degree from Moscow, Power Engineering Institute and Ph. D. from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1991 where  currently he is an Associate Professor. Dr. Maswood’s research interest is in Power Electronics..

Research Interests: Design and Evaluation of a New Converter Control Strategy for Near Shore Tidal Turbines, Five-Level Multiple-Pole PWM AC-AC Converters with Reduced Components Count, Novel Converter topology for hybrid Wind & Solar Energy, Maximum Power Tracking Control Strategies using Fuzzy logic and Particle Swram Optimization and Novel DC-DC buck-boost Converter for solar/Fuel Cell optimal power txtraction.

Asst Prof Hung Dinh Nguyen
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Hung D. Nguyen received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017. He joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as an assistant professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2018. He is a Siebel...

Research Interests: Complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and stability; power system operation, control, and optimization; Dynamic Security Assessment/Energy Management System; and smart grids.

Asst Prof Amer Mohammad Yusuf Mohammad Ghias
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Amer M.Y.M. Ghias (S’10–M’14) received the B. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Saint Cloud State University, USA, in 2001, the M. Eng. degree in Telecommunications from University of Limerick, Ireland, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales...

Research Interests: High Power Density Wide-Band-Gap Converters, Multilevel Converters (Fault-Tolerant Converters and Advanced Modulation Techniques), Novel Converters Topologies, Flexible AC Transmissions and High voltage DC Current and Micro-grid (Hybrid Energy Storage and Advanced Control Methods).

Asst Prof Christopher H. T. Lee
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Lee received his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering with 1st Class Honors at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2009. He then served as an Instructor in a local school for two years. He obtained his Ph.D. in his alma mater with the Best Thesis Award in 2016. Subsequently, he has been awarded a Croucher...

Research Interests: Electric motors and drives, Renewable energies, Electric vehicles, Electric aircraft, Robotics and Wind turbine.

Dr Foo Yi Shyh Eddy
Lecturer, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Email: [email protected]

Y. S. Foo. Eddy (S’09) received his B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2009. Subsequently, he received his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2016. Between...

Research Interests: Multi-agent systems, microgrid energy management systems, electricity markets, Power Hardware in the Loop and renewable energy resources.