Electrical Engineering Power

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Xiaotian Zhang Gender: Male

Date of birth: 11-30-1983 Citizenship: Chinese

CONTACT INFORMATION

Working address:

G03, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics,

University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

L69 3GJ

Home address:

Flat 3, 125 Botanic Road,

Liverpool, United Kingdom

L7 5PZ

Tel: +44 (0-776******* Email: ********.*****@***.**.**

EDUCATION

2009.9-2012.9: PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

2006.9-2009.3: Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. China.

2002.9-2006.7: Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering (with Honor), Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. China.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2011.9-present: z-domain modeling of space-vector modulated multilevel three-phase converters.

2011.4-2011.8: Design and experiment of digitally controlled multi-sampled multilevel converters.

2010.7-2011.3: Modeling, design and experiment of digitally controlled grid-connected power inverters.

2007.9-2010-5: Controller design and experiment of wireless control strategy for parallel inverters in Microgrids.

2006.12-2007.9: Analysis of low frequency oscillations in digitally controlled DC-DC converters.

2006.8-2006.12: Analysis and experiment of complex behavior in Boost PFC converters.

WORK EXPERIENCES

2007.6-2007.10: Internship in Shaanxi Xieli Photo Electric Instrument Co., Ltd. The work included hardware design and software development (CPU: dsPIC33F) of LCD displayed three-phase power meter, technique supported by Microchip Technology Inc. The job I had done is the Microchip DSC software programming on calculation, calibration, and display. I had also contributed to the hardware arrangement.

2006.6-2006.8: Internship in Shaanxi Xieli Photo Electric Instrument Co., Ltd. The work was about hardware design and software development (MCU: 89C52) of LCD displayed single-phase power meter. The job I had done is the entire MCU software programming on measurement, calculation, communication, watchdog and display. I had done part of the hardware design.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Strong knowledge in control theory & application, fundamentals of power electronics and digital signal processing.

Good experience in system modeling, design and analysis of analog and digitally controlled switching converters in both s-domain and z-domain.

Professional in hardware design tools such as Altium DXP and code Complier of DSPs (TMS320f2808/f2812/f28335) such as CCStudio_v3. Familiar with digital logic design of CPLD and FPGA in Quartus II.

Proficient in simulation software such as MATLAB/Simulink, Pspice, PLECS and PSIM for analog and digitally controlled power converters.

OTHER SKILLS

Computing skills: Microsoft Office Suite, programming in Visual C++ and Borland Delphi.

English skills: Good written and spoken English.

Working skills: Motivated at problem solving, communication and team working; Good capability in learning and time arrangement.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers

Xiaotian Zhang, Joseph W. Spencer, “Linear Voltage Control Scheme with Duty-Ratio Feedforward for Digitally Controlled Parallel Inverters,” IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, 2011, 26(12), pp: 3642-3652.

Xiaotian Zhang, Joseph W. Spencer, “Analysis of Boost PFC Converters Operating in Discontinuous Conduction Mode,” IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, 2011, 26(12), pp: 3621-3628.

Zhang Xiao-Tian, Ma Xi-Kui, Zhang Hao, “Low-frequency Oscillation Phenomena in Digitally Controlled DC-DC Buck Converters,” Acta Physica Sinica, 2008, vol. 57(10), pp. 6174-6181 (in Chinese).

Zhang Xiao-Tian, Zhang Hao, Ma Xi-Kui, “Fast-scale Instabilities in Boost PFC Converters Operating in Discontinuous Conduction Mode,” Advanced Technology of Electrical Engineering and Energy, 2008, vol. 27(3), pp. 58-62 (in Chinese).

Conference Proceedings

Xiaotian Zhang, Q-C Zhong, Hao Zhang, Xikui Ma, “Proportional Load Sharing Method for Parallel Connected Inverters,” in Proc. IEEE ISIE’10 conf., 2010, pp. 2261-2265.

Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Zhang, Xikui Ma, Josep M. Guerrero, “Sharing of Active Power Supply and Reactive Power Compensation for Parallel Inverters,” in Proc. IEEE APEC’09 conf., 2009, pp. 353-357.

Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Zhang, Josep M. Guerrero, Xikui Ma, “Reactive Power Compensation for Parallel Inverters without Control Interconnections in Microgrid,” in Proc. IEEE IECON’08 conf., 2008, pp. 922-925.

MEMBERSHIP

IEEE Member (S’11)

IEEE Power Electronics Society Member

REFERENCES

Prof. Joseph W Spencer, Head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool.

Tel: +44 (0-151*******; Email: ***@***.**.**

Prof. Xikui Ma, State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation & Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Tel: +86 (0-29-826*****; Email: *******@****.***.**

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