Academic Staff

Dr. Xin Yuan received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in 2013 and 2016, respectively. In 2020, he received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. During his PhD period, he worked as a Research Associate in PEMC group, University of Nottingham, UK from Jan. 2019 to Jan. 2020.

Prior to joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Currently, Dr. Yuan joined Department of Electrical Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Research Assistant Professor in June 2022. His research interests include AC motor drives in transportation applications, power converters, wireless power transfer, model predictive control, multi-phase motor drives and fault-tolerant strategy of motor.In these areas, he has published over 30 papers and 2 patents, including over 10 top tier journals as the first author, i.e., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.In his projects, he has experienced with all stages of the development cycle on electric vehicle/aircraft controller prototype projects.

He was invited as a speaker on Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Summer Webinar in 2020 and served as TCTE member of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification. He served IECON 2020,46th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society as a session chair and served as Reviewer for over 20 international journals. He has received many awards, including the best Ph.D. thesis prize, outstanding Ph.D. graduate award and first honor academic scholarship.

Dr. Yuan is actively looking for excellent candidates as Postgraduates, PhD students and Postdocs in the motor drives, motor design and power electronic research area.Please contact him via email if you have any interest in the above relevant research area.

• Bachelor of Engineering, Beijing Union University
• Master of Engineering, North China University of Technology
• Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology