Dr Haimeng Wu

Associate Professor

School: Not available

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

I am currently an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Head of the Electrical Power and Control Systems Research Group at 51��. Since joining the University in 2020, I have also served as Programme Leader for the MSc in Electrical Power Engineering and Chair of the Delivery Group at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Renewable Energy Northeast Universities (ReNU), a collaboration between Northumbria, Newcastle and Durham.

Prior to Northumbria, I worked as a Research Associate in Prof. Volker Pickert’s team at Newcastle University, contributing to EPSRC and Innovate UK projects on wide-bandgap power devices, EV charging, and compact DC/DC converters. My earlier PhD at Newcastle University (2016) focused on nonlinear modelling and advanced control of power electronics, building on my MSc from Zhejiang University and BEng from Chongqing University.

My current research is supported by major projects, including an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Tridonic Ltd. to develop a PV-powered outdoor lighting system with advanced battery management. In 2018, I won the Siemens European Competition in Power Electronics for work on bidirectional wireless power transfer. Since 2020, I have been an Associate Editor of IET Power Electronics (Outstanding Editor Award 2023). I serve as a National Committee member, Technical Programme Chair for IEEE ECCE Europe 2025, Theme Chair for IEEE PEAS 2025, and have held leadership roles at ISEEIE 2024, IEEE PEAC 2022 and CoEEPE. I am also an IEEE Senior Member and Counselor for the IEEE 51�� Student Branch.

A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, I have taught across MSc and undergraduate programmes, including modules on Smart Energy Systems, Renewable Energy Technologies, and Analogue Electronics. I currently supervise four PhD students and multiple MSc/UG projects.

My research interests span high-efficiency power conversion, advanced control for EVs and renewable energy networks, condition monitoring of wide-bandgap modules, and wireless power transfer. I have published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and collaborate widely with industry. I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in these areas.

📧 Haimeng.wu@northumbria.ac.uk

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Design, Modelling and Control of Power Converters for Electric Vehicles (EV)/Renewable Energy Network
Wireless Power Transfer Techniques and Control for Smart Home and Robotics
AI-enabled Techniques for Power Electronics Systems
Health monitoring and condition control on the wide bandgap (WBG) power modules

Key Publications

Advances and future perspectives for super-high frequency, wide-band, and miniaturized acoustic wave filters, Ding, R., Mu, D., Xuan, W., Gao, F., Wu, H., Zhu, W., Zhang, H., Luo, J., Zheng, Y., Dong, S., Fu, Y. 3 Oct 2025, In: Applied Physics Reviews
A lightweight Transformer-LSTM Method for Long-Sequence Battery State-of-Health Estimation, Yin, Y., Liu, Y., Xing, L., Jiang, J., Wu, H. 16 May 2025, Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE) Europe 2025, Piscataway, IEEE
A Trustworthy Pipeline for Data-Driven Estimation of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Using a Physics-Guided Neural Network, Xu, Q., Ma, M., Jianga, T., Wu, H., Wang, H. 1 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Energy Storage
Decarbonising Water Networks: Optimised Scheduling of Time-Sensitive Loads in the Presence of Cost-based Solar PV Systems, Duggal, D., Wu, H., Beattie, N., Browne, A. 16 May 2025, Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE) Europe 2025, Piscataway, IEEE
Enhanced Parity-time Symmetric Range in Magnetically Coupled Resonant Wireless Power Transfer Systems Using High-Order S-SPC Topology, Yang, F., Wu, H., Gao, Z. 22 May 2025, Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE) Europe 2025, Piscataway, IEEE
Robust Day-Ahead Short-Term Energy Forecasting Using Cyclical Encoding and Attention-Driven Recurrent Networks, Mudiyanselage, M., Wu, H., Mehrabidavoodabadi, A. 16 May 2025, Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE) Europe 2025, Piscataway, IEEE
Wearable Transdermal Drug Delivery System Controlled by Wirelessly Powered Acoustic Waves, Zhang, J., Yang, F., Wu, H., Ong, H., Arnold, P., Zhang, M., Jiang, Y., Bahar, D., Yuan, Z., Yang, X., Fu, Y. 10 May 2025, In: Journal of Controlled Release
Advanced Global Maximum Power Point Tracking (GMPPT) in PV Systems Using a Triangular Four-Subset Fuzzy Logic and P&O Hybrid Approach, Omokaro, H., Wu, H., Gao, D. 28 Aug 2024, 2024 4th International Symposium on Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering (ISEEIE), Piscataway, US, IEEE
An Adaptive Fuzzy Control Technique for a High-Speed Vehicular Platoon Experiencing Communication Delays, Li, H., Wu, H., Gulati, I., Ali, S., Pickert, V., Dlay, S. 1 Jan 2024, In: IET Intelligent Transport Systems
An Improved Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracking Technique in Photovoltaic Systems Based on Reinforcement Learning Algorithm, Ge, Z., Li, X., Xu, F., Wu, H., Wang, R., Ding, S. Jan 2024, In: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

PGR Supervision

Divyabhan Duggal Low-Carbon Engineering Framework for a Resilient Water Network Using Renewable Energy and Storage Integration Start Date: 01/10/2021
Dinithi Wijesooriya Mudiyanselage Data-Driven Algorithms for Enhanced Energy Management in Smart Homes. Start Date: 06/09/2023
Feixuan Yang Optimization of Wireless Power Transfer Systems using Resonant Techniques and Metamaterials for Smart Homes Start Date: 01/10/2023
Bohua Deng Advanced Wireless Power Transfer Technology for Dynamic and Static Electric Vehicle Charging Start Date: 01/10/2024

Further Information

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Recent Grants:

A novel PV-powered efficient outdoor lighting system with advanced battery management and optimised maximum power point tracking algorithm (£208,000) Innovate UK, KTP, PI, 2025.07-2027.07 (Awarded)
Solar Powered Wireless Energy Router Integrated with Metamaterials for Smart Home Applications, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, £2M, PI, 2026-2030 (Under Review)
Enhanced - Metamaterials Wireless Power Transfer for Smart Home Energy Routing, Royal Society, International Exchange (Shared Cost with NSFC) £12k, PI, 2026-2028 (Under Review)
Low-carbon engineering framework for a resilient water network using renewable energy and storage integration (RENU21/EE/MPEE/WU) (£100k) PI PhD studentship 2021-2025
Current distribution measurement of Press-pack power module (£17,000), (Dynex semiconductor), PI, 2020-2021
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Renewable Energy Northeast Universities (ReNU) (£5.476M) Co-I (EP/S023836/1) 2019-2027
Solar Powered Wireless Power Transfer using innovative Multi-coil Resonance Array integrated in Thin Film Solar Cells. University Interdisciplinary Research Theme (IDRT) Research Fund, PI, (£10,000) 01/2023-06/2023
Wireless power transfer kit - Commercial feasibility study research project (£20,000), Innovation fund 51��, PI, 01/2022-12/2022
NU: Opportunities Scheme - Internal Funding Bid - Electrical Power and Control Systems internship (£2,000) Project supervisor�� 2021

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Qualifications

Electrical and Electronic Engineering PhD March 17 2016
Electrical Engineering MSc May 31 2011
Electrical Engineering BEng (Hons) July 31 2008
Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Senior Member 2025
Fellow of Higher Education Academy FHEA 2020
Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology MIET 2020

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