Academic Staff

Prof. Shuangxia Niu received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering, from Tianjin University, China. She received Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong.
She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012 when she was a Research Assistant Professor and was later promoted to Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. Currently, she is a Professor in Electric and Electronic Engineering.

Her research interests include Electric Vehicle Technologies, Renewable Energy Systems, Machines and Drives, Power Electronics Technology, Applied Electromagnetic, Numerical Methods and Optimization. She has secured over 30 projects in the above research areas and produced abundant publication record.
Prof. Niu is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and the key member of the Hong Kong Chapter of IEEE VTS. She was also honored the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Lecturer in 2022. She serves as Reviewer for over 20 international journals. She serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), IEEE Access. She has published 2 book chapters and over 180 technical papers in international journals.

She received numerous scholastic honors and awards, including the Best Paper Award at the 22nd international conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS, 2019) and Faculty Research Grant Achievement Award for 2017 and 2020. 
Prof. Niu is currently seeking Ph.D. students, research associates as well as post-doctoral researchers to perform research in electric machines, electric vehicles, renewable energy and other related topics. Students with a background in electrical engineering, automation and control are welcome to contact Prof.  Niu for more information.

• Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong

Research Interests/Areas

Dr. Niu research interests include Electric Vehicle Technologies, Renewable Energy Systems, Machines and Drives, Power Electronics technology, Applied Electromagnetic, Numerical Method and Optimization. The details are presented as follows,

• Electrical Vehicle Technologies

Ammonia-powered Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicles Technologies, Energy-Efficiency Technologies, Electric Propulsion Systems, Dual-fed Flux-Modulated Electric Motor for Electric Vehicles

• Sustainable and Renewable Energy Conversion System

Ultra-High Force Density Generator for Direct Wave Energy Generation, Stand-Alone Wind Energy AC/DC Supply System, Multi-port Permanent Magnet Wind Power DC Generator, Contra-Rotating Wind Energy Conversion System

• Design of electric motors and drives

Hybrid-Excited Vernier Reluctance Machines, Memory Machines and Drives, Linear Machine and Drives, Magnetic-geared Machines, Double-Stator Machines, Modular Direct-Drive Fault-Tolerant Motor and Drives, etc.

• Wireless Power Transfer System

Multi-directional Magnetic Resonant Wireless Power Transfer System

Research Grants:

PI:

A Novel Brushless and Gearless Electric Continuously Variable Transmission System for Plug-in HEVs

Research Grants Council (ECS)

1/01/14 → 30/06/17

A Novel DC Coil Free Hybrid-Excited Motor with a Unique Zero-Sequence Current Control Technology and its Application to Direct Drive of Electric Vehicles

PolyU (UGC), Research Grants Council(GRF)

1/01/17 → 31/12/19

Development of a Novel Segmented, Modular Direct-drive Motor for Power-Assisted Wheelchair Application

PolyU (UGC), Innovation and Technology Commission

1/09/21 → 31/08/23

Robust Model Predictive Control of Multi-Phase Machines for Electric Ship Application

PolyU (UGC)

31/08/20 → 30/08/22

Design and Applications of Novel Biased-Flux Permanent Magnet Machines

PolyU (UGC)

1/09/16 → 28/02/22

Novel Triply-Fed Brushless PM Generator-Based Stand-Alone Wind Energy AC/DC Supply System

PolyU (UGC), Research Grants Council(GRF)

1/01/18 → 31/12/20

A Novel Magnetic-geared Brushless Dual-rotor Wind Power Generator

Innovation and Technology Commission

1/12/14 → 31/05/16

A Novel Racetrack Electric Machine System with Ultra-High Force Density for Direct Wave Energy Generation

PolyU (UGC)

30/04/16 → 29/04/18

Development of A Novel Brushless Power Slit Transmission System for Variable-speed Constant-frequency Wind Power Generation Application

Research Grants Council(GRF)

1/01/15 → 30/06/18

Development of a Novel DC-Saturation-Relieving Contra-Rotating Wind Energy Conversion System with Extended Wind Speed Range

PolyU (UGC), Research Grants Council(GRF)

1/01/21 → 31/12/23

Development of a Novel Parallel-Hybrid-Excitation Winding-Switching DC Generator for Extra-Wide-Speed-Range Wind Energy Conversion System

PolyU (UGC), Research Grants Council(GRF)

1/01/19 → 30/06/22

Development of Multi-electrical and Multi-mechanical Port Electric Machines with Magnetic Flux Modulation Approach

PolyU (non-UGC)

1/04/13 → 31/03/18

Development of Novel Direct-Drive Electric Motor Drive System

PolyU (UGC)

24/01/22 → 23/01/24

Research and Development of Novel Hybrid Excitation Synchronous Motors

PolyU (UGC)

3/02/21 → 2/02/23

Co-I:

A Core Loss Macroscopic Model Based on Micromagnetics for Electromagnetic Devices

Research Grants Council (GRF)

1/01/15 → 30/06/18

A General and Unified Theory of Flux-Modulated Electric Machines and its Application to Innovation of Machine Topologies

PolyU (UGC), Research Grants Council (GRF)

1/01/16 → 30/06/19

A General Structure Screening and Design Method of Multi-PM-excited Reluctance-coupled High-torque-density Direct-drive Electric Motors

PolyU (UGC), Research Grants Council (GRF)

1/01/19 → 31/12/21

Ammonia-powered Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicles in Hong Kong

PolyU (UGC), Innovation and Technology Commission, China Dynamics New Energy Technology Company Ltd

1/03/21 → 31/10/22

An Extension of Metamaterials to Low-frequency Electrical Engineering

PolyU (UGC)

1/01/17 → 31/12/18

A Novel Dual-fed Flux-modulated Electric Motor for Electric Vehicles

Innovation and Technology Commission

1/08/14 → 31/01/16

Development of a Low-frequency Magnetic Metamaterial and its Applications

PolyU (UGC)

1/01/18 → 31/03/20

Performance Enhancement, Optimization and Control Strategy of a Multi-directional Magnetic Resonant Wireless Power Transfer System

PolyU (UGC), Research Grants Council (GRF)

1/01/20 → 31/12/22

Research and Development of Advanced Contactless Charging Systems

PolyU (UGC)

4/07/16 → 31/08/16

Research and Development of a Novel Direct-drive Linear-rotary Motor and Its Application in Industrial Automation

Innovation and Technology Commission

1/11/17 → 31/07/19

Research and Development of a Novel High-torque-density High-efficiency Motor with Synthetic Slots for In-wheel Direct Drive of Electric Vehicles

Innovation and Technology Commission

1/10/15 → 30/06/17