I am delighted to announce our winner for 2017 .......
Dr Wenlong Ming received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Automatic Control from Shandong University, China, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He received a PhD degree in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering from University of Sheffield in 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Qing-Chang Zhong and Dr Hua-Liang Wei.
He is currently working as a Lecturer at School of Engineering, Cardiff University. His research mainly focuses on developing advanced control strategies and power electronics topologies to improve the power density, efficiency and reliability of power electronics systems for different applications, e.g., solar battery systems, electric vehicles (EVs) and Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) systems.
During his PhD, he has worked on using advanced control and power electronics techniques to holistically remove two major challenges in single-phase power converters, i.e., bulky isolating transformers and electrolytic capacitors. The developed techniques can be also applied to other types of power electronics systems to improve their power density and reliability.
Wenlong says: ‘I am extremely excited and honoured to receive the 2017 IET Control & Automation PhD Award. During my PhD study, I found the holistic integration of control and power electronics technologies is one of the keys to address challenging problems in future energy and power systems. This award greatly motivates me to further explore in this research field.’
Congratulations to Wenlong!