Jing (Jin) Jiang, Ph.D., P. Eng.

People

A level system
Physical NPP simulator
NPP simulator
DCS systems
FPGA
Safety system
Wireless sensor devices
WirelessHART system
Energy storages
dSPACE
Grid Connection rack
Power Electronic Converters
Wind turbine
Solar panels
Programmable loads
Microgrid
Solar simulator
Synchronous Gen-sets
Wind simulator
Wireless systems
Wireless sensor devices
With Prof. Steve Mann UofT.

Ontario's Minister of Energy Mr. Glenn Thibeault, MPP in DG lab.

CIES Group activities.

CIES Group activities.

CIES Group activities.

With Mr. Robert Lojk of CNSC at Tianwan NPP, China.

With Dr. Varma and Dr. Patil, Windsor, Ontario.

Visiting AECL, Deep River, Ontario.

ISTP Project Review Meeting at UWO.

ISTP Project Review Meeting at UWO.

With Chief Engineer (retired), AECL, Dr. Dan Meneley.

With Dr. Steven X. Ding of University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, at UWO.

Class Trip to Sustainable House, Toronto, Ontario in 2017.

Class Trip to McMaster Reactor, Hamilton, Ontario in 2017.

The Control, Instrumentation & Electrical System (CIES) Team

One of the most important mandates for The Control, Instrumentation & Electrical System (CIES) Laboratory at The University of Western Ontario is to provide state-of-the-art research facilities and learning environment for training highly qualified personnel. Over the years, the lab has successfully trained over hundred highly qualified people, many of whom are now playing important roles in industries, research institutions/universities in Canada and around the world.

Current Team Members



Research Associates

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Ataul Bari Research Engineer
Huirui Han PDF




Graduate Students

NPP

                                                           

DG

Yongqiang Deng Ph.D.                                                             Mohammad Ghanbari Ph.D.
Zhibo Zhang Ph.D.                                                             Mohammad Amereh Ph.D.
Salam Bari Master's                                                        Oswald Lawson Master's

Alumni - PDF / Visiting Scientist

Dr. Dennis Michaelson Research Engineer 2017 - 2022
Dr. Adeel Sabir PDF 2019 - 2021
Dr. Shuang Xu PDF 2020 - 2021
Dr. Xinhong Huang Research Engineer 2004 - 2020|
Dr. Shuang Zhao PDA 2019 - 2020
Dr. Muhammad Sajid PDA 2019
Dr. Sungwhan Cho PDF 2014 - 2018
Dr. Ahmad EI Assaf PDF 2014 - 2018
Dr. Dongqing Wang PDF 2016 - 2018
Dr. Hisham Mahmood PDF 2015 - 2017
Dr. Quan Wang PDF 2015 - 2016
Dr. Goutam Dutta PDF 2013 - 2014
Dr. Xiang Yu PDF 2009 - 2013
Dr. Qingfeng Li Research Engineer / PDF 2005 - 2012
Prof. Jianqiang Shan Visiting Scientist 2009
Prof. Jianmin Zhang Visiting Scientist 2008
Dr. Shailendra Kumar Jain PDF 2007 - 2008
Dr. Zhihao Zhang PDF 2007 - 2008
Dr. Wen Chen PDF 2003 - 2004
Dr. Youmin Zhang PDF 1998 - 2004
Dr. Midori Maki Visiting Scientist 2000 - 2002
Dr. Weihua Li PDF 1994 - 1996

Alumni - Ph.D.

Syed A. Raza Naqvi Power Management and Control to Balance Residential Microgrids with Individual Phase-wise Generation and Storage 2021
Qiang Huang Investigation of Radiation-Hardened Design of Electronic Systems with Applications to a Post-Accident Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plants 2019
Xirong Ning Analysis, Design and Demonstration of Control Systems Against Insider Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems 2019
Dennis Michaelson Predictive Energy Management of Islanded Microgrids with Photovoltaics and Energy Storage 2017
Drew Rankin Predictive Shutdown Systems for Nuclear Power Plants 2017
Quan Wang Non-linear chirp spread spectrum communication Systems of binary orthogonal keying mode 2015
Jianping Ma Methods and Systems for Fault Diagnosis in Nuclear Power Plants 2015
Devbratta Thakur Power Management Strategies for a Wind Energy Source in an Isolated Microgrid 2015
Hisham Mahmood Power Management Strategies for Islanded Microgrids 2014
Jingke She Investigation on the Benefits of Safety Margin Improvement in CANDU Nuclear Power Plant Using an FPGA-based Shutdown System 2012
Lingzhi Xia Development of 3-D Neutronic Kinetic Model and Control for CANDU Reactors 2012
Peiwei Sun Dynamic Model Construction and Control System Design for Canadian Supercritical Water-cooled Reactors 2012
Sungwhan Cho A Study for Detection of Drift in Sensor Measurements 2012
Hashem M.Hashemian Measurement of Dynamic Temperatures and Pressures in Nuclear Power Plants 2011
Abdullah Kadri Low-Power Chirp Signals for Wireless Data Communication in Industrial Environment 2009
Hooman Javidnia Modeling and Simulation of CANDU Reactor and Its Regulating System 2009
Ervin Sejdic Feature Representation Using Energy Concentration in Time-Frequency Domain For Extraction and Classification 2007
Zhihao Zhang Modeling, Analysis, and Control of a PEM Fuel Cell based Micro-grid Power System 2007
Ye Jiang Machining Accuracy Enhancement Using the Iterative Learning Control Approach 2007
Adam Rehorn Cutting Tool Condition Monitoring and Reconfigurable Control 2005
Lixuan Lu Risk-Informed coordinated On-line Test and Maintenance for Safety-Critical Standby Instrumentation and Control Systems 2005
Yonghui Xu Design, Analysis and Implementation of Fault-Tolerant Control Systems with Application to Electric Machines 2003
Mufeed M.Mahmoud Stochastic Analysis and Synthesis of Active Fault Tolerant Control Systems 2001
Xiaokang Xu Application of Singular Perturbation Models to Long Term Dynamic Stability Studies 1999
Qing Zhao Fault Tolerant Control Systems Design 1999
Krishnat V. Patil Dynamic Compensation of Electrical Power Systems using a New BVSI Statcom 1999
Qihua Zhao Robust Damping Control in Power Systems 1996

Alumni - Master's

Madison McCarthy Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Redundancy Management System for Fault-Tolerant Wireless Devices in Harsh Environments 2019
Ning Pan Integration of RFID and Industrial WSNs to Create A Smart Industrial Environment 2018
An He Design and Implementation of Smart Sensors with Capabilities of Process Fault Detection and Variable Prediction 2017
Ahmad Osgoueei Investigation of Model Predictive Control (MPC) for Steam Generator Level Control in Nuclear Power Plants 2017
Binggang Cui Modeling, Construction and Simulation of a Software Simulator for a Nuclear Process Control Test Facility 2015
Michael Gverzdys Design, Implementation, and Verification of a Reactor Protection System for Nuclear Power Plant using HFC6000 2015
Elizabeth K.Tomaszewski Control System Design, Analysis, and Simulation of a Photovoltaic Inverter for Unbalanced Load Compensation in a Microgrid 2015
Ximing (Simon) Liu Configuration, Programming, Implementation and Evaluation of Distributed Control System for a Process Simulator 2015
Rohit Maitri A CFD Assisted Control System Design for Supercritical Water Cooled Reactor 2014
Mohammad
Arif Hossain
A Dual-Rate Model Predictive Controller For Fieldbus Based Distributed Control Systems 2013
Shiva Moballegh Modeling of Partial Shading and Prediction of Power Peaks of PV Arrays with Experimental Validations 2012
Andrew T.Moore Design, Implementation And Evaluation Of A Microgrid In Island And Grid Connected Modes With A Fuel Cell Power Source 2012
Mahmood Akkawi An Inverse Control-Based Set-point Function for Level Control in a U-Tube Steam Generator for Nuclear Power Plants 2011
Hesam Hosseinzadeh Modeling and Simulation of a Control System for a Microgrid with Multiple types of Energy Sources 2010
David A.Brown Control and Optimization of Laminar Incompressible Fluid Flow 2010
Yina Zhang Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Supercritical Water Cooled Reactor 2009
Mohsen Bahramali Data Integrity Protection For Security in Industrial Networks 2009
Yi Cui Active Steer-by-Wire Steering Control Based on Nonlinear Vehicle and Tire Models 2008
Zhutian Wang Control and Operation of a Microgrid Involving a PEM Fuel Cell Through Analysis and Experimentation 2008
Carlos O'Donell A Framework for the Evaluation of Distributed Control Systems in Industrial Control Applications 2008
Jinhui Zhang Integration of Model-based Safety Assessment for Fault-tolerant Flight Control System Design 2008
Drew J.Rankin Development of a Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Platform for Safety Critical Control System Evaluation 2008
Jianping Ma Fault Detection and Isolation in Fixed In-Core Flux Detectors 2008
Dipak Patki Modified Markov Method for Calculating the Probability of Failure on Demand for Safety Instrumented Functions 2007
Sungwhan Cho Design and Analysis of the Surveillance Test Intervals for Shutdown Systems 2006
Lee L.Rehorn Instrument Fault Detection in CANDU Nuclear Reactors using a Modified Dedicated Observer Scheme 2005
Ran Peng Power system damping improvement with SVC auxiliary control 2004
Srdjan Stevandic Modelling, Control and Simulation of a Grid-Connected Fuel Cell Power Plant 2004
Qing Jiang NOx Control in Industrial Furnaces 2004
Xiang Li Design and Implementation of Sensorless Control of a Permanent Magnet DC Brush Servomotor 2003
Runling Pan Design and Prototyping an Optimal Shock Damping Caster 2003
Guozhong Bao Fault-tolerant flow sharing control of aircraft engine bleed air system 2003
Raymond S.C.Chokelal Analysis of Interaction and Design of a Coordinating Control Scheme for Two SVC FACTS Devices 2002
Adam G.J.Rehorn Machine Tool Spindle Dynamics: Identification, Modelling and Effects on Machining 2001
Georges Livanos Heart Sound Analysis Using Time - Frequency Transforms 2000
Xin Zhang Nonlinear Phenomena and Control in Power Systems 1998
Anthony R.Lithgow Collision-Free Trajectory Optimization for Multiple Robotic Manipulators 1997
Jason M.Naughton A Feed Forward Artificial Neural Network for Fault Diagnosis of Non-Linear Systems 1996
Frederick R.Harmsen An Evaluation Procedure for Fault-tolerant Control Systems 1995
Fang Jia Fault Detection, Diagnosis, and Control System Reconfiguration 1993
Ontario's Minister of Energy Mr. Glenn Thibeault, MPP in nuclear lab.

Ontario's Minister of Energy Mr. Glenn Thibeault, MPP in nuclear lab.

CIES Group activities.

CIES Group activities.

Visit to AECL Chalk River Lab .

With the former and the present UNENE Presidents (Dr. Mohan Mathur and Dr. Basma Shalaby).

Award ceremony for IEEE Outstanding Engineer Awards (London IEEE PES).

With PDF and PhD students at UWO.

With a Legend of Power Electronics, Dr. Hirofumi Akagi.

With Prof. Tanaka and Dr. Nishifuji, Yamaguchi, Japan.

With my PhD Thesis Advisor, Prof. Doraiswami.

Regular Nuclear I&C Group Seminar at UWO.

With Chief Engineer (retired), AECL, Dr. Dan Meneley.

With visiting student, Dongqing Wang of Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Class Trip to Bruce Power, Tiverton, Ontario in 2017.

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Ataul Bari

Dr. Ataul Bari (abari2@uwo.ca) received his B.Sc. in 2004, his M.Sc. in 2006, and his Ph.D. in 2010, all in computer science from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Prior to that he earned a B.E.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rajshahi (currently named as Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology), in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, in 1986.

Dr. Bari has over a decade of experience in the chemical and sheet metal industries, working in the capacity of both an engineer and a manager. He has been awarded several provincial and federal level scholarships during the course of his graduate studies, including NSERC PGD-D; NSERC CGS-M and OGS. Dr. Bari's research interests include wireless sensor networks (WSNs), particularly those used in industrial settings. His current research focus is the application of WSNs for plant and equipment condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, and for the remote monitoring of industrial environments.

His personal web page can be accessed HERE.

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Huirui Han

Huirui Han (hhan55@uwo.ca) received her Bachelor of Engineering in Thermal energy and Power Engineering degree from North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China, in 2015. She received her M.E.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Thermofluids in Mechanical & Materials Engineering from Western University, London, ON, Canada in 2018 and 2022.

Her research interests include: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in supercritical pipe flow and rod bundle flow, heat transfer characteristics investigation in nuclear reactors, and CFD-assisted control system design.

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Yongqiang Deng

Yongqiang Deng (ydeng92@uwo.ca) received his B.Sc. from Nanjing Agriculture University, China in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a joint graduate between the Institute of Optics and Electronics, the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and Mechatronic Engineering of University of Electronics and Science of Technology of China (UESTC). After he earned his M.Sc. in Mechatronics in UESTC in 2014, Yongqiang worked as a research engineer assistant for Chengdu Green Energy and Green Manufacturing Technology R&D Center for 34 months. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. as a member of CIES Research Group at Western.

Mr. Deng is doing researches on the optical fiber sensor in harsh environments.

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Mohammad Ghanbari

Mohammad Ghanbari (mghanba5@uwo.ca) received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering-Power System from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2014. He received his Masters degree in Energy Engineering Department (EED) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2017. He was among the top 10 percent of his class and has received the Best Master's Thesis award from the EED of the Sharif University of Technology in 2018. The focus of his master thesis was to study the application and efficiency of Soft-Computing/Neural Networks in the power plant data analysis. Mr. Ghanbari has also received an award for achieving the first rank among all Engineering Science freshmen of the University of Tehran in 2009.

Mr. Ghanbari's research interests include power system operation and control, energy systems, renewable energy resources, and artificial intelligence. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. as a member of the CIES research group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario in the area of Distribution Network Resilience.

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Zhibo Zhang

Zhibo Zhang (zzha739@uwo.ca) received his Bachelor's degree in 2019 and Master's degree in 2021, both from Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology(IFCEN), Sun Yat-sen University(SYSU), Zhuhai, China. From August 2019 to January 2020, he studied as an exchange student majoring in Nuclear Engineering at Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering and Management, Grenoble, France. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. as a member of CIES Research Group at Western.

Mr. Zhang's research interests include advanced sensor and signal processing techniques for nuclear power plants.

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Mohammad Amereh

Mohammad Amereh (mamereh@uwo.ca) received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering-Power System from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2012. He received his MSc in Power Electronics from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2014. The Title of his Master's thesis was "Design and implementation of transformerless grid connected PV inverter with mitigating leakage currents". After MSc studies, Mr. Amereh worked as a design engineer and project manager of Medium Voltage Variable Frequency Drive Department in BORNA Electronics for 6 years.

Mr. Amereh's research interests include integration and control of Power Electronic Converters in Microgrids, Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy Sources. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. as a member of the CIES research group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario in the area of Microgrids and Distributed Generation.

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