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Dr Yuchao Liu joined Northumbria University as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Physics & Electrical Engineering in January 2023. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2019. From 2017 to 2018, she was a visiting student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. From 2019 to 2021, she was a Lecturer at Harbin Engineering University, where she researched on Power Coordination and Optimal Allocation of DC Microgrids. From 2021 to 2022, she was a Research Fellow in the Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Research Group at University of Nottingham, where she was involved in EU Horizon 2020 project Investigation and Maturation of Technologies for Hybrid Electric Propulsion (IMOTHEP).
My current research interests include:
- Power Converters and Control
- Motor drives
- Model Predictive Control (MPC)
- Multi-terminal dc transmission (MTDC)
- Integration of renewable energy
- Power management of microgrids
- Power electronics for enabling the electrification of transportation
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- Techno-Economic Evaluation of Solar vs Wind Energy for Autonomous Street Lighting in European Regions, Vayal Veetil, S., Wu, H., Stainthorpe, B., Qu, Y., Liu, Y. 24 Apr 2026, 2026 IEEE Energy Conversion Conference Congress and Exposition (ECCE), IEEE
- A Lightweight Transformer-LSTM Method for Long-Sequence Battery State-of-Health Estimation, Yin, Y., Liu, Y., Xing, L., Jiang, J., Wu, H. 1 Sep 2025, 2025 Energy Conversion Congress & Expo Europe (ECCE Europe), Piscataway, United States, IEEE
- Characteristic Analysis and Control Loop Design of Transmission Torque and Jerk for Flexible Joint Servo Systems, Wang, C., Zhuang, Y., Yang, J., Liu, Y., Pan, J. 1 Jul 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- Selective harmonic mitigation model predictive control with optimized switching states for high performance motor drive applications, Liu, Y., Xie, J., Khera, F., Rivera, M., Jiang, J., Gerada, C. 3 Sep 2024, 13th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2024), Stevenage, IET
- A Multi-input Single-output DC-DC Converter with Fuzzy Supervisor Controller for Hybrid Renewable Energy Applications, Chen, L., Wu, H., Liu, Y., Yu, J. 10 Nov 2023, 2023 IEEE 2nd International Power Electronics and Application Symposium (PEAS), Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE
- A New Droop Coefficient Design Method for Accurate Power-Sharing in VSC-MTDC Systems, Liu, Y., Green, T., Wu, J., Rouzbehi, K., Raza, A., Xu, D. 9 Apr 2019, In: IEEE Access
- Dynamic Resonance Analysis and Oscillation Damping of Multiterminal DC Grids, Liu, Y., Raza, A., Rouzbehi, K., Li, B., Xu, D., Williams, B. 23 Aug 2017, In: IEEE Access
- Modeling and oscillation analysis of flexible multi-terminal HVDC system, Liu, Y., Wu, J., Raza, A., Xu, D. 30 Mar 2017, 2017 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), IEEE
- Power Dispatch and Voltage Control in Multiterminal HVDC Systems: A Flexible Approach, Raza, A., Liu, Y., Rouzbehi, K., Jamil, M., Gilani, S., Xu, D., Williams, B. 27 Oct 2017, In: IEEE Access
- Coordinated Operation and Control of VSC Based Multiterminal High Voltage DC Transmission Systems, Raza, A., Xu, D., Liu, Y., Su, X., Williams, B., Cecati, C. 1 Jan 2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
- Electrical Engineering PhD July 31 2019
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