Dr Jun Wang
CEng, PhD, MSc, BEng
Expertise
Power Electronics
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Open to support applications of PhD scholarships for Autum 2025 entry to research on Power Electronics
Electrified Vehicles (EVs) and More Electric Aircrafts (MEAs)- Traction inverters
- Fast chargers (on-board and off-board)
- Power generation systems
- Motor drive systems
- Multilevel converter topologies and control
- Neutral point clamped (NPC) topologies
- DC-link capacitor voltage balancing control
- Common-mode voltage supression
- Hybrid structures (e.g. Si/SiC hybrid)
- Applications of Wide-bandgap (WBG) power semiconductors
- Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices
- Gallium Nitride (GaN) devices
- Modelling, virtual prototyping and optimization
- Modelling of power device losses
- Design, selection and modelling of passive components
- Characterization of high-frequency losses
- Triple Pulse Test (TPT) procedure
- Component-based automated testing with large signals
- MagLearn - machine learning based core loss modelling (open-source)
- Data-driven approach applicable to arbituary waveform shapes
- 3rd Place Outstanding Performance in MagNet Challenge 2023
- Additive manufacturing (AM) of magnetic cores
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Early Career Horizon Europe Fund
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/03/2024 to 31/07/2024
Towards Component-based Testing and Modelling of Power Magnetics Under Power Electronics Excitation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2024 to 31/12/2025
Using Machine Learning to Correct Probe Skew in High-frequency Electrical Loss Measurements
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
20/11/2023 to 31/05/2024
Automated Triple Pulse Test (ATPT) System 1.0 for Rapid Loss Characterisation of Magnetics in Power Electronics
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2023 to 29/09/2023
Multilevel power converters employing hybrid Silicon (Si) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/04/2020 to 04/10/2021
Publications
Selected publications
31/10/2023Fast-processing Capacitor Voltage Balancing Algorithm for Single-end Five-level NPC Converters based on Redundant Level Modulation
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Triple Pulse Test (TPT) for Characterizing Power Loss in Magnetic Components in Analogous to Double Pulse Test (DPT) for Power Electronics Devices
IEEE IECON 2020 - 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
MagLearn – Data-driven Machine Learning Framework with Transfer and Few-shot Training for Modeling Magnetic Core Loss
2024 26th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'24 ECCE Europe)
Recent publications
02/07/2024Automated Triple Pulse Testbed (ATPT) 1.0 – Large-Signal Hardware-in-the-loop Characterization Platform for Power Magnetics
2024 IEEE 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2024-ECCE Asia)
MagLearn – Data-driven Machine Learning Framework with Transfer and Few-shot Training for Modeling Magnetic Core Loss
2024 26th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'24 ECCE Europe)
Inverter with Paralleled-Modules to Extend Current Capacity and Combat Motor Overvoltage in SiC-Based Adjustable Speed Drives
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
MagNet Challenge for Data-Driven Power Magnetics Modeling
IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics
Towards Standardized Magnetic Components under Power Electronics Excitation with User-Friendly Loss Maps
IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics
Thesis
Design Trade-off Analysis and Optimisation of a High-density Active Shunt Regulator for Aircraft
Supervisors
Award date
25/06/2019
Related people
Professor Xibo Yuan
Professor of Advanced Energy Conversion
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Ian Laird
Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Wenzhi Zhou
Honorary Senior Research Associate in Electric Drives
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Mr Binyu Cui
Senior Resident
Residential Life