Dr Sinan Li
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Dr Sinan Li

Senior Lecturer
ARC DECRA Fellow
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Li received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Hong Kong, HK, in 2014. He has been with The University of Hong Kong and The University of Bath, U.K., as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor, respectively, in2014-2019. He joined The University of Sydney in late 2019. He is the recipient of the 2021 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), the 2019 Best Paper Award (Second Place) of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, and two world-renowned invention awards, including the prestigious Gold Medal with Special Recognition by the International Jury of Experts in The INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF INVENTIONS OF GENEVA, 2018. He is an inventor/co-inventor of 7 worldwide patents; 3 of these technologies have been commercialised. He serves as a Guest Associate Editor for IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS OF CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS and several other journals. He was a Founding Member of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include all areas of power electronics.

ELEC3404/9404: Electronic Circuit Design

ELEC506: ELEC5206: Sustainable Energy Systems

  • 2024 Best Presentation Award, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)

  • 2024 Entry to the Final, The 4th Huawei Power Electronics Innovation Global Contest

  • 2024 Princeton CSML Award for Outstanding Software Engineering (1st Place), IEEE PELS-Google-Tesla-Princeton MagNet Challenge

  • 2024 Google Award for Model Novelty (1st Place), IEEE PELS-Google-Tesla-Princeton MagNet Challenge

  • 2023 Entries to the Final, Student Project Demonstrations, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition

  • 2023 Entry to the Final, The 3rd Huawei Power Electronics Innovation Global Contest

  • 2022 Best Presentation Award, Symposium on Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems, IEEE

  • 2022 Highlighted paper,IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics

  • 2021 Deans’ Teaching Commendations, The University of Sydney, AU

  • 2021 Best Researcher Award,International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine

  • 2020 Best Paper Award (Second Place Prize),IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

  • 2020 Deans’ Teaching Commendations, The University of Sydney, AU

  • 2018 Prize of Patent Office of Corporation Council for the ARAB STATES OF THE GULF

  • 2018 Gold Medal with Special Recognition by the International Jury of Experts,The International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva

  • 2018 Certificate of Merit,Hong Kong Green Innovations Award

  • 2018 Highlighted paper,IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics

Project titleResearch student
Advanced Simulation Techniques for Power Electronics and Distributed GenerationShuang JIAO
Power electronics modeling and simulation for power system dynamic analysis and controlFujian LI
Sydney Inverter: Next-Generation Solar Micro Inverter with High Power Density, Efficiency, Reliability, and Cost-effectivenessJinghang LI
Optimal Business Model for a Virtual Power Plant Integrated with Vehicle to Grid by Cutting edge Digitalization TechnologiesMeng LIU
Date driven method for coordinated network and market operation for active distribution network.Xiao LIU

Publications

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Selected Grants

2024

  • Next-Generation Ultra-Efficient Power-Conversion Architectures for Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles, Li S, Wu J, Zhu J, Liao X, Wei L, Hui R, Jiao S, Zhang Y, Office of Global Engagement/International SDG Collaboration Program

2022

  • A Reliable Battery Converter for Ultra-Fast Charging and Discharging of Next-Generation Electric Vehicles, Wang M, Li S, Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China/Innovation and Technology Support Programme Seed Project
  • Need for Speed: Towards Controller Design Automation for Power Electronics, Li S, Zhu J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

In the media

Power Electronics Technology Vital to Green Economy [26-April-2021]

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