Dr. Fang Lin Luo is a full professor at AnHui University, China. He also has a joint appointment at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He was an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 1995–2012. He received his BSc degree, first class, with honors (magna cum laude) in radio-electronic physics at the Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science (EE and CS) at Cambridge University, England, in 1986.
After his graduation from Sichuan University, he joined the Chinese Automation Research Institute of Metallurgy (CARIM), Beijing, China, as a senior engineer. From there, he then went to the Entreprises Saunier Duval, Paris, France, as a project engineer in 1981–1982. He worked with Hocking NDT Ltd., Allen-Bradley IAP Ltd., and Simplatroll Ltd. in England as a senior engineer after he earned his PhD from Cambridge. He is a fellow of Cambridge Philosophical Society and a senior member of IEEE. He has published 13 books and 300 technical papers in IEE/IET proceedings and IEEE transactions, and various international conferences. His present research interest focuses on power electronics and DC and AC motor drives with computerized artificial intelligent control (AIC) and digital signal processing (DSP), and AC/DC and DC/DC and AC/AC converters and DC/AC inverters, renewable energy systems, and electrical vehicles.
He is currently associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is also the international editor of Advanced Technology of Electrical Engineering and Energy. Dr. Luo was chief editor of Power Supply Technologies and Applications from 1998 to 2003. He was the general chairman of the first IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2006) and the third IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2008).
Dr. Hong Ye is a research fellow with the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Techological University, Singapore. She received her bachelor’s degree, first class, in 1995; her master’s degree in engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 1999; and a PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2005.
She was with the R&D Institute, XIYI Company, Ltd., China, as a research engineer from 1995 to 1997. She worked at NTU as a research associate from 2003 to 2004 and has been a research fellow from 2005.
Dr. Ye is an IEEE member and has coauthored 13 books. She has published more than 80 technical papers in IEEE transactions, IEE proceedings, and other international journals, as well as presenting them at various international conferences. Her research interests are power electronics and conversion technologies, signal processing, operations research, and structural biology.