Yuan Gao (Member, IEEE) received his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, in 2021. He studied his masters in Aeronautical Engineering at the Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2014-2017. He finished his Bachelor of Engineering degree in 2013 at the Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China. In Feb 2023, He joined the School of Engineering at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, as a lecturer in EEE. Prior to that, he was a postdoc research associate in hybrid autonomous system engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering, at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. His research interests include motor drive, model predictive control, multi-agent modelling and simulation, autonomous system engineering, machine learning-based design, control, and maintenance. Dr. Gao is the guest editor of a special section in IEEE TPEL Letters. He serves as a Reviewer for the IEEE {TIE, TII, TTE, TEC}. He also serves as the Financial Chair of ISEEIE 2024, Session Co-Chair of ESARS-ITEC 2024, and Session Co-Chair of AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS) 2020. He is a recipient of a highly prestigious Chinese National Award for Outstanding Students Abroad in 2021.
