Zi-Qiang Zhu

Biography

Zi-Qiang Zhu has driven advances in state-of-the-art permanent magnet (PM) machine technology impacting a wide range of applications including electric vehicles, wind power generators, automation systems, and domestic appliances. Zhu has developed PM machine topologies with high efficiency and high torque density, including novel rotor-PM and stator-PM, ultra-highspeed, variable-flux, fault-tolerant, and magnetically geared PM machines. His modeling techniques have addressed fundamental issues such as analytical calculation of airgap field distribution, which is critical to optimal design and minimizing parasitic effects of modern PM machines. His work helps reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions through significant efficiency improvements in PM machines and drives.

An IEEE Fellow, Zhu is a professor with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.