Advances in Control Techniques for Smart Grid Applications (PDF)

is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and IEEE Access. He is also editing a special issue entitled "Advances in High-frequency Isolated Power Converters" for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. He is an Editor of the Book Series entitled "Advanced in Power Electronic Converters" for CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. He has received several funding from Government and Industries including in total $5.48 million from Australian Government through Australian Research Council (ARC), e.g. Discovery Project (DP) 2020 entitled "A Next Generation Smart Solid-State Transformer for Power Grid Applications".



Dr. Wei Xu received the double B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, and the Ph.D. from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering. His research topics mainly cover design and control of linear/rotary machines. From 2008 to 2012, he made Postdoctoral Fellow with University of Technology Sydney, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, respectively. Since 2013, he has been full professor with State Key Laboratory of Advanced Elec-tromagnetic Engineering in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He has more than 110 papers accepted or pub-lished in IEEE Journals, two edited books published by Springer Press, one monograph published by China Machine Press, and more than 150 Invention Patents granted or in pending, all in the related fields of electrical machines and drives. He is Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is the General Chair for 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA 2021) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE 2023) in Wuhan, China, respectively. He has served as Associate Editor for several leading IEEE Transactions Journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and so on.