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Ke Li

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering

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Biography

I received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from University of Lille, France, in 2014. After my PhD, I have worked as Research Fellow in Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Group, the University of Nottingham until Dec.2019. Afterwards, I was appointed as Assistant Professor in Power Electronics, Machines and Drives in Coventry University. In Sept. 2022, I came back to the University of Nottingham and joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and PEMC group as Assistant Professor. Since 2019, I have been working actively in IEEE Vehicular Technology Society to lead different activities, such as Motor Vehicle Challenge Committee Chair for the promotion of new technologies for Net Zero transport, guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, organisation committee and technical programme committee member for IEEE Vehicular Power Propulsion Conference.

Expertise Summary

My expertise is to develop high-efficiency, high-power-density and high-reliability power electronics systems for sustainable electrical energy conversion, which contributes to sustainable development and Net Zero strategy. It includes three areas: 1) The electro-thermal characterisation of the power semiconductor devices and power modules. 2) The electro-thermal and electromagnetic modelling and simulation of the power electronics circuit and converter. 3) The application and reliability of silicon and wide bandgap semiconductor devices and modules for transportation electrification.

Teaching Summary

I am MSc course director for Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering for Sustainable and Renewable Energy, Power Electronics and Drives. My teaching vision is to make the electrical and… read more

Research Summary

My research interest and passions are how to use the most advanced electrical and electronic technologies to transform our lives. For example, how to make the electric vehicle drive further and… read more

Recent Publications

I am MSc course director for Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering for Sustainable and Renewable Energy, Power Electronics and Drives. My teaching vision is to make the electrical and electronic engineering teaching fun and attractive to the students, and the students are able to process the knowledge in deep-level. My teaching materials and projects are frequently updated to reflect the latest research and industry application, which I hope it would help to improve the students' engineering skills to address the society and the global needs.

My proposed projects will address the challenges in the above areas, for example, how to design an EV battery charger with emerging wide bandgap semiconductor devices, how to model a power converter efficiency with artificial intelligence, how to estimate CO2 emissions of a product lifecycle and use this data to justify the choice of the technology, how to predict temperature and lifetime of power converters. The students will be expected to learn and develop multi-disciplinary skills to resolve complex problems.

I teach following modules:

  • EEEE2044: Electronic Processing and Communications
  • EEEE2071: Energy Conditioning Group Design Project
  • EEEE3001/EEEE4008: BEng/MEng Individual Project
  • EEEE4129: MSc project

Current Research

My research interest and passions are how to use the most advanced electrical and electronic technologies to transform our lives. For example, how to make the electric vehicle drive further and better, how to increase the efficiency to use renewable energies from solar and wind, how to predict the health and lifetime of electric and electronic devices and prevent their failure before malfunctioning, how to make the design of next generation power electronics converters in an intelligent and low-cost way.

I am PI of a current EPSRC-funded research project "Highly integrated GaN power converter to calm the interference" (EP/Y002261/1), in which my research ambition is to greatly reduce the electromagnetic interference of emerging GaN power electronics converters by novel circuit design and packaging.

Future Research

I am interested to collaborate with researchers of different expertise as mine. I am particularly interested in following areas: materials scientists with the expertise in magnetic components, dielectric and materials recycling; data scientists with the expertise in big data and machine learning. I hope to work with these partners to resolve the challenge of the energy electrification, decarbonisation and Net Zero.

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD candidates from Home and international countries who are interested in the following research areas: power semiconductor devices application, power electronics packaging, virtual prototyping and reliability.

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