I am a Research Assistant at the Power Electronics and Machines Centre (PEMC), University of Nottingham. I develop electrical machines for electrified transport, combining multiphysics modelling, experimental validation and physics-informed AI.
I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Southeast University in 2025, following my M.Eng. (2021) and B.Eng. (2018). My doctoral research brought hairpin-winding traction machines from design through manufacture to dynamometer testing, in collaboration with Inovance.
Of my 23 journal papers, 19 are in IEEE Transactions and 11 are first-authored. My work has received the IEEE TTE Prize Paper Award (2nd Prize), the IEEE TEC Electric Vehicle Design Competition first prize, and the Machines Best PhD Thesis Award.
From physical models to tested machines
A deep-learning magnetic field surrogate with implicit physics-knowledge embedding. On unseen designs, the model achieved R² = 0.9996 for torque and 0.9730 for iron loss, with more than 94% less computation time than FEA. Paper at ICEM 2026.
Figure: Magnetic field predicted by the deep-learning surrogate with a Fourier layer.
Paper details
A general design method for n-layer flat-wire windings, verified by finite element analysis and six- and seven-layer prototypes. This first-author work received the 2025 IEEE TTE Prize Paper Award (2nd Prize).
Figure: Six-layer hairpin winding machine prototypes: stator, rotor and assembly.
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Electromagnetic design and mechanical stress relief for high-speed permanent magnet rotors. Rotor stress and modal models were checked against an overspeed test at 22,500 rpm.
Figure: Cross-section of the high-speed permanent magnet traction machine.
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Conductor-level thermal modelling for oil-cooled hairpin machines. The model combines lumped thermal networks with fluid–solid cooling and is validated against thermocouple measurements across the operating map.
Figure: Oil-cooling paths in a hairpin-winding permanent magnet traction machine.
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Next-Generation Electrified Transport: Advances in Electric Drive Systems, International Conference on Electrical Machines, Funchal, Portugal.
For the first-author paper on general design of n-layer flat-wire windings in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
International electric-vehicle machine design competition run with IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.
For the thesis Multi-physics Analysis and Design of Hairpin Winding PM Traction Machines in Electric Vehicles.
Research Assistant in the EPSRC AIMD programme: magnet-free synchronous machines, an in-house finite element package and neural surrogates.
Awarded for the M.Eng. thesis on wound-excited flux-modulation brushless machines.
For Analysis and Multi-Objective Optimization of the Hybrid Excitation Switched Flux Machine.
2025 IEEE TTE Prize Paper Award, 2nd Prize