Alumni - Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PDF) / Visiting Scientist

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Dennis Michaelson

Dennis Michaelson (dgm@uwo.ca) holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science (Automation) from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, which he received in 1993. In 1996 he was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship and the Canadian Space Agency Supplement. He is a volunteer with the London Section of the IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE London PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2012. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. as a member of the CIES Research Group.

Dennis previously held the position of Vice-President of Engineering for EK3 Technologies, Inc., where he led a team developing secure networked embedded systems for multimedia applications. Previous work experience also includes work terms at Simon Fraser University, the Canadian Space Agency, Bell Northern Research, MacDonald Dettwiler, and Northern Telecom.

Mr. Michaelson's research interests include energy storage in microgrids, power electronic converters, complex systems, mobile robotics, and embedded real-time systems.

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Adeel Sabir

Adeel Sabir (asabir3@uwo.ca) received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2016. His doctoral research focused on the control of uncertain systems. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University, San Jose, CA in 2009. From 2016 to 2019, he taught in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia, and also carried out research on grid-tied inverters, and electric spring-based smart loads in distribution systems.

Dr. Sabir is currently a postdoctoral associate at the CIES lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario. His current research interests include control of power systems, and grid-integration of renewable, clean energy sources and small modular reactors.

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Shuang Xu

Shuang Xu received his B. Sc. from the Experimental Class at Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Fredericton, Canada, in 2018. From 2018 to 2020, he works as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Emera and NB Power Research Centre for Smart Grid Technologies at UNB.

Dr. Xu is currently as postdoctoral associate at the CIES lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario. His research interests include renewable energy systems, multiple microgrids, energy storage technologies, power electronics, and power system support functions for distributed energy resources.

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Xinhong Huang

Dr. Xinhong Huang (xhuang49@uwo.ca) received her BESc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China in 1992 and 1997, respectively. She started her academic career as a lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1997. Dr. Huang has worked at the University of Western Ontario as a Research Engineer in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering from 2004 to 2020.

Dr. Huang is a Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 15 years of research project management and industry liaison experience working with Dr. Jin Jiang in the CIES Research Group at Western. She also has over 14 years of direct experience working with major government research programs in contract/grant preparation, budget planning and management, and data collection and analysis for various government grants such as NSERC (IRC/CRD/Discovery/RTI), ORF, CFI, OCE, as well as experience with international collaborative projects such as the ISTP Canada-China scientific and technological cooperation grant. While working with Dr. Jiang, she was responsible for managing proposal development and project budget planning and management for all major projects in the CIES Research Group, providing vital support to Dr. Jin Jiang and the project teams, overseeing project expenditures, and ensuring all financial aspects including budgeting, and internal and external financial reporting are completed in a timely manner. She helped the researchers in the CIES Research Group to achieve their research goals, and for the success of the CIES Research Group as a whole.

Her personal web page in LinkedIn can be accessed HERE.

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Muhammad Sajid

Dr. Muhammad Sajid earned his PhD degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Islamabad Pakistan under HEC fellowship for indigenous PhD studies in 2016. He earned his M.Phil, M.Sc in physics from Gomal University Dera Ismail Khan, KPK Pakistan in 1999 & 1993 respectively.

Dr. Sajid has over 19 years of experience of coordination as well as working as member of various research projects of technical nature related to space applications. The prime area of his research is analysis of space radiation effects on various VLSI microelectronics devices. He published research papers on space radiation environment prediction for LEO, SEU effects on 65nm SRAM bitcell and TID analysis of highly scaled devices.

Dr. Sajid is currenly working in the CIES group at UWO Canada as a postdoc associate. His research interests include design and development of radiation shield based on polymer composite materials to protect the electronic devices from harsh radiation environment.

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Sungwhan Cho

Dr. Sungwhan Cho (scho26@uwo.ca) received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Western Ontario in 2012. Prior to pursuing his graduate studies, he worked at the KEPRI (Korea Electric Power Research Institute) of KEPCO as a member of the research staff and Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 of KEPCO as an electrical engineer. While at KEPRI, Dr. Cho participated in the APR1400 (Advanced PWR) project. The project’s Generation III APR1400 reactors are currently under construction in Korea and the United Arab Emirates. He reviewed the calculation sheets of the APR1400 Safety Analysis Report. He also participated in many PRA (Probabilistic Risk Assessment) projects such as those for Wolsong 2, 3 , and 4 (CANDU) and APR1400. As part of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Wolsong Unit 1 NPP, his tasks included the diagnosis, testing, and overhaul the plant’s electrical power distribution systems (Class I, II, III, and IV).

Dr. Cho’s current research projects at Western are: 1) the development and application of analytical redundancy in nuclear power control and test Facilities for the purposes of fault detection and isolation; 2) multivariate statistical analysis for fault pattern identification and classification. His main research interests are multivariate statistical analysis, state estimation theory, and fault detection and isolation.

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Hisham Mahmood

Dr. Hisham Mahmood (hmahmoo2@uwo.ca) received his M.E.Sc. in Control Engineering from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada in 2008, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario in 2014. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow. With Dr. Jiang, Dr. Mahmood is currently developing and teaching a graduate course (ECE 9404B) on "Modeling and Control of Power-Electronic Converters".

Dr. Mahmood's research interests include the modeling and control of power electronic systems in power system applications, control of energy conversion systems in distributed generation and microgrid applications, and control of renewable energy systems.

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Dongqing Wang

Dr. Dongqing Wang (dwang375@uwo.ca) has received his B.E.Sc and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Nuclear Science and Technology at the Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China in 2009 and 2016, respectively. From 2013 to 2015, he has studied as a visiting graduate student of the University of Western Ontario in the CIES research group.

Dr. Wang's research interests include design and validation of passive safety systems in nuclear power plant, containment simulation after severe accidents. He has designed a series of efficiency boosters to improve the performance of natural circulation systems. Effectiveness of these boosters have been validated with numerical simulation and experimental results. His current research work is simulation of containment environment after a severe accident in nuclear power plant.

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Quan Wang

Quan Wang (qwang249@uwo.ca) has received his B. E. Sc. degree in 2002 from the department of Measurement and Control Technology and Instrumentation at the Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China, and his M.E.Sc degree in 2005 from the department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. He has worked as a lecturer from 2005 to 2009 at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China. He was selected as a voting member of ISA100 committee in 2008. He has received the best student paper award at the 2014 International Symposium on Future I&C for Nuclear Power Plants (ISOFIC). He has received his Ph.D. degree in 2015 as a member of the Control, Instrumentation and Electrical System Research Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Ontario.

Mr. Wang's research interests include industrial wireless sensor networks, Chirp communication systems, and wireless communication under strong radiation environment.

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Dr. Goutam Dutta

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2013 - 2014

Dr. Goutam Dutta received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario from 2013 -2014. While at Western, Dr. Dutta researched the modeling and simulation of Canadian direct-cycle Supercritical Water Cooled Reactors (SCWR).

Dr. Dutta is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India.

His website can be accessed HERE

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Dr. Xiang Yu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2009 - 2013

Dr. Xiang Yu received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of Automatic Control, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario from 2009 - 2013. While at Western, Dr. Yu performed research on fault-tolerant control for safety-critical systems and network-based control.

Dr. Yu is currently an Associate Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China.

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Dr. Qingfeng Li

Research Engineer / Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2005 - 2012

Dr. Qingfeng Li received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. He was a postdoctoral fellow, and later a research engineer, at the University of Western Ontario from 2005 - 2012. While at Western, Dr. Li performed research on network-based control systems, fieldbus applications, and distributed control systems.

Dr. Li currently works as an engineer in Toronto, Canada.

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Prof. Jianqiang Shan

Visiting Scientist, 2009

Prof. Jianqiang Shan is a Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Technologies at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Western Ontario in 2009. While at Western, Prof. Shan carried out joint research in the field of modeling supercritical water cooled reactors.

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Prof. Jianmin Zhang

Visiting Scientist, 2008

Prof. Jianmin Zhang is a Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Technologies at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Western Ontario in 2008. While at Western, Prof. Zhang carried out joint research in implementation and control for nuclear power plants, as well as the writing of a textbook on nuclear reactor control.

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Dr. Shailendra Kumar Jain

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2007 - 2008

Dr. Shailendra Kumar Jain received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in 2003. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario from 2007 -2008. While at Western, he worked on power electronic grid-connection inverters for fuel cell power modules.

Dr. Jain is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, India.

His website can be accessed HERE

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Dr. Wen Chen, 2004 - 2005

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2004 - 2005

Dr. Wen Chen received his Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada in 2004. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario from 2004 -2005. While at Western, Dr. Chen researched observer-based fault detection and diagnosis for dynamic systems.

Dr. Chen is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A.

His website can be accessed HERE

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Dr. Youmin Zhang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1998 - 2004

Dr. Youmin Zhang received his Ph.D. from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 1995. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario from 1998 to 2004.

While at Western, Dr. Zhang performed research on fault detection, diagnosis, and fault-tolerant control systems for safety critical applications. Dr. Zhang is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

His website can be accessed HERE

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Dr. Midori Maki

Visiting Scientist, 2000 - 2002

Dr. Midori Maki received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Systems Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan. He was a visiting scientist at The University of Western Ontario, from 2000 to 2002.

While at Western, Dr. Maki carried out research on fault-tolerant control systems. He successfully developed a design methodology for stability guaranteed active fault-tolerant control system against actuator failure.

Dr. Maki currently works in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo, Japan.

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Dr. Weihua Li

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1994 - 1996

Dr. Weihua Li received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He was a postdoctoral fellow in this research group at the University of Western Ontario from 1994 - 1996.

While at Western, Dr. Li worked on the development of adaptive filter-based fault detection and diagnosis schemes.

Dr. Li currently works at Shell Global Solutions, Houston, USA.

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