Zhen Li

Short CV

Dr. Li is currently an associated professor and at Shandong Uni. Jinan, China. She is interested in intelligent maintenance and reliability analysis of renewable energy and power conversion systems. She was selected as a tutorial chair of IEEE-PRECEDE-2021, and permanent committee member of working committee of female scientists of China Power Supply Society. She won the First Prize of Science and Technology Award of China Electrotechnical Society for her contributions in predictive maintenance of wind energy conversion systems. Dr. Li also won the Excellence Award of University Educator Teaching Competition of Shandong Province and the First Prize of the Teaching Competition of Shandong University for her contributions in teaching.

Selected Awards

• 2024, “Best Paper Award”, IEEE-CIEEC-2024, China
• 2023, Excellence Award of University Educator Teaching Competition of Shandong Province, China
• 2023, Excellent Teacher of School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, China
• 2023, “Best Paper Award”, IEEE-PEAS-2023, China
• 2023, “Best Paper Award”, IEEE-PRECEDE-2023, China
• 2022, Outstanding Instructor of the “Internet+” Competition, Shandong University, China
• 2021, First prize of Teaching Competition of Shandong University, China

Research Interests

• Third generation power semiconductor material-based power devices
• Reliability of wide band gap semiconductor devices and their applications in offshore wind energy systems

Selected Publications

• Z. Zhang, H. Li, S. Zhou, Z. Li, "An Effective Adaptive-Observer Based Wide Range Encoderless Control for PMSM Drives", IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2024.
• H. Huang, Z. Li*, Z. Zhang, et al., “A Non-Redundant Fault-Tolerant Control of Parallel Wind Power Conversion Systems”, 2024 IEEE 7th International Electrical and Energy Conference (CIEEC).
• S. Zhou, Z. Zhang, H. Li, Z. Li, et al., “A Robust Encoderless Control for PMSM Drives: a Revised Hybrid Active Flux Based Technique”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., 2023 (SCI Q1, IF: 6.7).
• X. Liu, Z. Zhang, M. Han, Z. Li, et al., “A Simple and Fast Start-up Strategy for Dual Active Bridge Converters with DC Bias Suppression”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., 2023.
• M. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. Li, et al. “A Unified Open-Circuit-Fault Diagnosis Method for Three-Level Neutral-Point-Clamped Power Converters”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., 2023.
• M. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. Li, et al., “A Simple and Effective Open-Circuit-Fault Diagnosis Method for Grid-Tied Power Converters–A New Technique Based on Tellegen’s Theorem”, IEEE Trans. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron., 2023.
• Q. Xing, Z. Zhang, Z. Li, et al., “Bias-Free Predictive Control of Power Converters with LCL-Filter in Micro-Energy Systems”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2022.
• X. Zhang, Z. Li*, Z. Zhang, et al., “Open-circuit Fault Diagnosis for Wave Energy Converters with Support Vector Machine”, 2022 2nd International Joint Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering (CoEEPE).
• Y. Sun, Z. Li*, Y. Zhang, et al., “A Time-Domain Virtual-Flux Based Predictive Control of Modular Multilevel Converters for Offshore Wind Energy Integration”, IEEE Trans. Energy Convers., 2021.
• X. Zhang, Z. Li*, Z. Zhang, et al., “Neural Network based Open-circuit Fault Diagnosis for Three-Level Neutral-Point-Clamped Back-to-Back Converters”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE).