Dr Xin Yuan

Biography

Xin Yuan (S'19-M'24) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in 2013 and 2016, respectively. In 2020, he received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.

He joined the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen, UK as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2024. Before joining the University of Aberdeen, He worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and Research Associate at the PEMC Group of the University of Nottingham, UK. In 2020, he also was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include AC motor drives in transportation applications, power converters, wireless power transfer, model predictive control, and control theory. He has successfully secured several Research Grants as a Principal Investigator and the personal secured funding is over £270k. He has published more than 40 academic papers, and several patents, and served as a Guest Editor and Reviewer in different international scientific publishers.

Prizes and Awards

• 2020, Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Beijing Institute of Technology
• 2020, Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award, Beijing Institute of Technology
• 2019, First Honor Academic Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology
• 2019, SMC Scholarship, Beijing SMC Education Foundation
• 2017, First Honor Academic Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology

Research Overview

Currently, oil shortage, air pollution, and climate change have been raising the main issues in the world. Many countries have pushed corresponding policies to achieve world carbon neutrality that accelerates and scales up action to realize universal access to clean, affordable energy by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. Therefore, it is hugely meaningful to conduct high-impact research in the field of electrification with renewable energy.

I having more than ten years of experience working on DC/AC, DC/DC, and AC/DC power conversion; Conducting world-class research in the electrification sector to achieve net zero.

If you would like to explore more, please see my personal webpage: https://www.eduyuanxin.com/

Current Research

Throughout the years, I have been devoting my research interests to three major areas, namely (i) DC-AC/AC-DC Converter in Motion, (ii) DC-AC/AC-DC Converter in Utility Grid, and (iii) DC-DC Converter with Renewable Energy. In these areas, I have published over 40 refereed papers in leading journals and international conferences and worked as a principal investigator with a strong connection to industrial high-tech companies and partners.

Past Research

First Author SCI Top Journals (Q1):

1. Yuan, J. Chen, W. Liu and C. H. T. Lee, "A Linear Control Approach to Design Digital Speed Control System for PMSMs," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 8596-8610, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2022.3146174. (IF: 6.7)
2. Yuan and C. H. T. Lee, "A Simple Three-Degree-of-Freedom Digital Current Controller with Dead Beat Response for AC Machines",IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 7848-7858, Aug. 2022. (IF: 7.7)
3. Yuan, J. Mei, J. Chen, Y. Zuo and C. H. T. Lee, " A Digital Current Controller based on Active Resistance Term Feedback for SPMSM Drives",IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 9827-9839, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2022.3153057. (IF: 6.7)
4. Yuan, J. Chen, C. Jiang and C. H. T. Lee, "Discrete-time Current Regulator for AC Machine Drives",IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 5847-5858, May. 2022. (IF: 6.7)
5. Yuan, Y. Zuo, Y. Fan and C. H. T. Lee, "Model-Free Predictive Current Control of SPMSM Drives Using Extended State Observer",IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 6540-6550, July. 2022. (IF: 7.7)
6. Yuan, S. Zhang and C. Zhang, "Improved Model Predictive Current Control for SPMSM Drives with Parameter Mismatch",IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 852-862, March. 2019. (IF: 7.7)
7. Yuan, C. Zhang and S. Zhang, "Torque Ripple Suppression for Open-end Winding Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machine Drives with Predictive Current Control",IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1771-1781, Mar. 2020. (IF: 7.7)
8. Yuan, C. Zhang and S. Zhang, "A novel Deadbeat Predictive Current Control Scheme for OEW-PMSM Drives", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 11990-12000, Dec. 2019. (IF: 6.7)
9. Yuan, S. Zhang and C. Zhang, M. Degano, G. Buticchi and A. Galassini, "Improved Finite-State Model Predictive Current Control with Zero-Sequence Current Suppression for OEW-SPMSM Drives",IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 4996-5006, March. 2019. (IF: 6.7)
10. Yuan, S. Zhang and C. Zhang, "Nonparametric Predictive Current Control for PMSM",IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 9332-9341, Sept. 2020. (IF: 6.7)
11. Yuan, S. Zhang and C. Zhang, M. Degano, G. Buticchi and A. Galassini, "Improved Model Predictive Current Control for SPMSM Drives Using Current Update Mechanism",IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 1938-1948, March. 2021. (IF: 7.7)
12. Yuan, S. Xie, J. Chen, S. Zhang, C. Zhang and C. H. T. Lee, "An Enhanced Deadbeat Predictive Current Control of SPMSM with Linear Disturbance Observer," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3168435. (IF: 5.5)

Collaborations

Collaborate with several industrial companies and famous universities including The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Nanyang Technological University, Beijing Institute of Technology, University of Nottingham, etc. If you would like to explore more, please see my personal webpage: https://www.eduyuanxin.com/

Funding and Grants

Research Grants (Personal Total: £270k+)

12/2023 – 11/2025 – PI & PC (~ £160k) – Development of Next-generation PMSM Controller in Lightweight Transportation – Innovation and Technology Support Programme, HK – Personal Contribution: 80.0%; Industrial partner: 20%

09/2022 – 08/2024 – PI & PC (~ £51k) – An enhanced fault-tolerant electric drive system based on SiC/GaN power devices for electrification of transportation applications – PolyU (UGC), HK – Personal Contribution: 100.0%

04/2023 – 03/2024 – PI & PC (~ £21k) – Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (EVTOL), Inter-departmental FYP project – PolyU (UGC), HK – Personal Contribution: 100.0%

11/2023 – 10/2026 – Co-I (~ £770k) – Research Centre for Electric Vehicles – PolyU (UGC), HK – Personal Contribution: 5.0%