Dr Zhengyu Lin joined the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University in May 2019 as a Senior Lecturer and works at the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST). Prior to his current position, he had been with Aston University as a Lecturer for more than 5 years, and with UK industry for more than 6 years. He was a senior researcher with Sharp Laboratory of Europe, and a R&D engineer with Nidec Control Techniques.

 Qualifications: 

• Sep 1998 – Mar 2001, MSc. in Electronic Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, China.
• Sep 1994 – Aug 1998, BSc. in Electronic Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, China.
  

Key Awards:

• 2018 to 2021: EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship

Dr Zhengyu Lin’s research interest is power electronics and its applications, which include renewable energy, energy storage, machine drives, and microgrids.

Grants and contracts:

• 2018 to 2021, EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship, EP/S001662/1, Plug-and-play Low Voltage DC Microgrid for Cheap and Clean Energy, £517,364 (FEC £646,705), Key industrial project partners: Nidec Control Techniques, GridEdge, and ARUP, Principal Investigator
  
• 2018 to 2021, National Key R&D Program of China, 2017YFE0112400, Plug-and-play Operation Principle and Integration Application of Structured DC-Based Microgrid, 3.95m CNY (~500k Euros), EU partner leader
  
• 2018 to 2020, Innovate UK/TSB, TS/R017123/1, Vehicle to Grid Intelligent Control (VIGIL), £ 276,215, Key industrial project partners: Nortech, Bytesnap, co-Investigator
  
• 2017 to 2019, The Royal Society International Exchanges, IE161121, Research on Microgrid Optimised and Reliable Operation, £12,000, Principal Investigator
  
• 2017 to 2020, EU H2020 MSCA RISE 2016, Grant No. 734796, Research, Demonstration and Commercialization of DC Microgrid Technologies (RDC2MT), total project budgets 436,500 Euros, Coordinator (Principal Investigator)
  
• 2015 to 2016, The Royal Society Research Grant, RG140697, Novel power/communication converters network for DC microgrid, £14,000, Principal Investigator
  
• 2013 to 2014: Industrial project, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Power Electronics for Solar Energy Storage System, £39k, Principal Investigator

Journal papers:

• F. Li, Z. Lin, Z. Qian, J. Wu, and W. Jiang, ‘A Dual-Window DC Bus Interacting Method for DC Microgrids Hierarchical Control Scheme’, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, early access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8645723
• M Alshareef, Z Lin, M Ma, and W Cao, ‘Accelerated Particle Swarm Optimization for Photovoltaic Maximum Power Point Tracking under Partial Shading Conditions’, 2019, Energies, vol. 12, no. 4, 623
• Y. Zhu, J. Wu, R. Wang, Z. Lin, and X. He, ‘Embedding Power Line Communication in Photovoltaic Optimizer by Modulating Data in Power Control Loop,’ IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 5, 2019, pp. 3948-3958
• A. Triviño-cabrera, Z. Lin, and J. Aguado, 'Impact of Coil Misalignment in Data Transmission over the Inductive Link of an EV Wireless Charger', 2018, Energies, vol. 11, no. 3, 538
• R. Wang, J. Wu, Z. Qian, Z. Lin, and X. He, ‘A graph theory based energy routing algorithm in Energy Local Area Network (e-LAN)’, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 13, Dec 2017, pp. 3275-3285
• R. Wang, Z. Lin, J. Wu, J. Du, and X. He, ‘Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum based PWM Strategy for Harmonic Reduction and Communication’, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 32, No. 6, June 2017, pp. 4455-4465
• J. Du, J. Wu, R. Wang, Z. Lin and X. He, ‘DC power line communication based on power/signal dual modulation in phase shift full bridge converters’, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 32, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 693-702
• J. Wu, J. C. Zhao, Z. Lin, et al., Wireless power and data transfer via a common inductive link using frequency division multiplexing, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 62, No. 12, December 2015, pp. 7810-7820
• J. Wu, J. Du, Z. Lin, et al., ‘Power Conversion and Signal Transmission integration method based on dual modulation of DC-DC converters’, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 62, No. 2, February 2015, pp. 1291 – 1300

Conference papers:

• F. Li, Z. Lin, W. Cao, A. Chen, and J. Wu, A Low-pass Filter Method to Suppress the Voltage Variations Caused by Introducing Droop Control in DC Microgrids, IEEE ECCE 2018, pp. 1151-1155
• M. Alshareef, and Z. Lin, A Modified Particle Swarm Optimization based Maximum Power Point Tracking for PV Systems, IEEE UPEC 2018
• E. Kalamaras, M. Belekoukia, Z. Lin, H. Wang, and J. Xuan, Assessment of a Hybrid Off-grid DC System for Combined Heat and Power Generation in Remote Islands, ICAE 2018
• F. Li, Z. Lin, Z. Qian, and J. Wu, Active DC bus signaling control method for coordinating multiple energy storage devices in DC microgrid, IEEE ICDCM 2017, pp. 221-226
• W. Jiang, J. Lu, F. Li, S. Hashimoto, and Z. Lin, A non-intrusive magnetic energy scavenger for renewable power generation state monitoring, IEEE ICRERA 2016
• F. Li, M. Alshareef, Z. Lin, and W Jiang, A modified MPPT algorithm with integrated active power control for PV-battery systems, IEEE ICRERA 2016
• Z. He, W. Cao, Z. Lin, and Y. Hu, High-step-up flyback-forward asymmetrical DC-DC converter for photovoltaic power system with active clamping circuit, IEEE ICRERA 2016
• W. Jiang, S. Xu, N. Li, Z. Lin, and B. Williams, 'Wireless power charger for light electric vehicles', IEEE PEDS 2015, pp. 562-566
• W. Jiang, S. Kan, N. Li, Z. Lin, BW Williams, S Hashimoto, 'Control integrated finite state machine design for photovoltaic module integrated converter', IEEE PEDS 2015
• Z Lin, J. Du, J. Wu, X. He, Novel communication method between power converters for DC micro-grid applications, IEEE ICDCM 2015, PP 92-96

External roles and appointments: 

• Senior member of IEEE
• Member of IET, Chartered Engineer
• Fellow of Higher Education Association (HEA), UK
• Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
• Panel Member of EPSRC panel meeting in 2018
• Member of IET Technical Committee TC2-4 DC Power Systems
• Member of CIRED working group on DC DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS - WG 2019-1
• Innovate UK (TSB) funding competitions assessor since 2013
   
• Panel member of The British Council Researcher Links & Institutional Links initiative under the Newton Fund since 2014. 
   
• International conference technical committee members: ICDCM 2015, ICDCM 2017
   
• International conference session chairs: ICRERA 2016, ICDCM 2017
   
• External Ph.D examiner: University of Strathclyde and Newcastle University