Dr Xin Yuan

Speaker Bio: Dr Xin Yuan is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Strathclyde. 
Before joining the University of Strathclyde, He worked as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the 
School of Engineering of the University of Aberdeen, Research Assistant Professor at the Department 
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and Research 
Associate at the PEMC Group of the University of Nottingham, UK. He received a Ph.D. in electrical 
engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and he was also a Postdoctoral 
Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological 
University, Singapore, from 2020 to 2022. He was a Senior IEEE Member and a World's Top 2% Most
cited Scientist by Stanford University from 2024 to 2025 and received several external research grants 
in Hong Kong and the UK, including the UK-Royal Society, HK-ITF and EU-Horizon Europe funding 
agencies. He has more than 15 years of experience working on DC/AC, DC/DC, and AC/DC power 
conversion, and his research interests include electric vehicle, electric ship, wind turbine, and aircraft 
transportation applications. His speciality mainly contains the high-efficiency/fault
tolerant/low switching frequency/EMI suppression AC machine control and high-power density 
integrated multilevel WBG power converter hardware design with EMI suppression. Dr. Yuan has 
published over 50 academic papers and 4 patents, and served as a Guest Editor, Technical Track Chair, 
Special Session Chair, Associate Editor and Reviewer in different international journals and 
conferences.