Qu Ronghai

Biography

Ronghai Qu received his B.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 2002. In 1998, he joined the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortiums as Research Assistant. He became a Senior Electrical Engineer with Northland, a Scott Fetzer Company in 2002. Since 2003, he had been with the General Electric (GE) Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY as a Senior Electrical Engineer with the Electrical Machines and Drives Laboratory. He has authored over 80 published technical papers and is the holder of over 50 patents/patent applications. Since 2010, he is the "Thousands of People Plan" professor and vice dean of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China. Prof. Qu is a senior member of IEEE and a full member of Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of several awards from GE Global Research Center since 2003, including the Technical Achievement and Management Awards. He was the recipient of the 2003 and 2005 Best Paper Awards, third prize, from the Electric Machines Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. 

Research Interest

Design, Drive and Control of Electrical Machines