🔄 Last updated: November 2025

Dr. Fulong Li

Ph.D., IEEE Member

📧 Email: fulong.li@ieee.org
🌐 Website: fulongli.github.io

Research Areas

Power Electronics Converters

• AI-assisted optimal design of DC/DC converters (buck, boost, DAB, LLC)
• EMI/thermal-aware optimisation of magnetic components (planar inductors, PCB windings)
• Characterisation of IGBT and SiC/GaN MOSFETs
• High-bandwidth current sensing (PCB Rogowski coils, PCB embedded CTs)

Converter Control & Stability

• Closed-loop control: double-loop, passivity-based, feedforward
• Impedance modelling and stability analysis
• Stability assessment in DC microgrids

DC Microgrids & Systems

• Hierarchical control strategies & distributed energy management
• EMS design (PV, battery systems)
• Adaptive PV control & MPPT
• Power scheduling and optimisation

Experience

Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult, UK

Power Electronics Engineer | Apr 2022 – Sep 2025

• Technical lead for ANN-based SiC MOSFET modelling (Sumitomo Heavy Industries + Cardiff University)
• Multi-objective optimisation for power converters (passives, switching devices, loss modelling)
• Designed 10 kW LLC and DAB converters for data centres
• Led a 3 MW hybrid fuel-cell marine powertrain: system architecture, modelling & EMS
• High-voltage SiC (3.3 kV) & 10 kV SST architecture review
• Developed high-bandwidth SiC current measurement devices (PCB Rogowski / PCB CT)
• Designed an advanced testbench supporting:
  • DPT, thermal impedance
  • H3TRB, insulation tests
  • Temperature cycling for SiC/GaN modules

Loughborough University, UK

Research Associate | Oct 2019 – Apr 2022

• Developed hierarchical control for LVDC microgrids
• Implemented DSP-based converter control: MPPT, SoC/droop control, feedforward
• EMS development using GAMS and Yalmip
• Built real-time monitoring tools for DC microgrids
• Developed PnP PV/ESS coordination strategies

Aston University, UK

Ph.D. | Apr 2016 – Sep 2019

Thesis: Control Strategies for Low Voltage DC Microgrids
Supervisor: Dr. Zhengyu Lin

• Built a 500 W DC microgrid test environment
• Conducted stability analysis, converter control, collaborative studies

Teaching Assistant / Lab Demonstrator

• Supported PG/UG labs in power electronics and circuits
• Helped students with MATLAB/Simulink, SIMetrix, LabVIEW

Visiting Research Positions

• University of Waterloo, Canada (2019) — EMS optimisation, battery degradation
• Zhejiang University, China (2018) — 50 kW DC microgrid testing & stability
• DC Systems BV, Netherlands (2017) — DC protection & safety evaluation

🎓 Education

Ph.D., Power Electronics

Aston University, UK | 2016–2019

• Focus on DC microgrid control, EMS, stability
• EU–China collaborative research

B.Sc., Energy & Power Engineering

Yangzhou University, China | 2011–2015

• Thesis: Wireless Power Transmission for Underwater
• Awarded Distinguished Undergraduate & Distinguished Thesis

🏆 Awards & Recognition

• 🏅 Best Paper Award — IEEE PEAC 2022
• 🏅 IEEE SYPA Winner — ISIE 2019
• ✈️ IEEE Student Travel Grants — ICDCM 2019, ECCE 2018
• 🥇 Distinguished Undergraduate, YZU
• 🥈 2nd Prize — Chinese National Mathematical Modelling Contest

Professional Memberships

• IEEE Member
• IEEE Young Professionals
• IEEE Power & Energy Society
• IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• IEEE Smart Grid Community

Professional Services

• Guest Editor, Energies (Special Issue: Smart Power Grid LCES), 2022
• Reviewer for: IEEE Access, IET Power Electronics, Energies, etc.
• Technical committee member:
  • ITEC-AP 2022
  • EPCE 2022
  • PEAS 2021
  • IECON 2021
  • CEEGE 2021

Invited Talks

• Compound Semiconductor Applications Workshop (UK–China), 2023
• Overview of DC Microgrids Stability, Shanghai University, 2020
• EMS for DC Buildings, Loughborough University, 2019
• DC Microgrid Prototyping, TU Delft, 2018
• Capacitive Grounding for DC Microgrids, TU Delft, 2017

Selected Publications

Journal Papers

1. Li et al., IET Power Electronics, 2022
2. Li et al., IEEE JESTPE, 2021
3. Li et al., IEEE Trans. Sustainable Energy, 2020
   (Full list available online)

Conference Papers

• IEEE PEAC, ISIE, ICDCM, ECCE
• Key topics: droop control, EMS, protection, battery storage

🔗 Full publication list:
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