Biography

Zhiwei Gao (Fellow of IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electric engineering and automation and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in systems engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1987, 1993, and 1996, respectively. He is currently with the Faculty of Engineering and Environment, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. He is the recipient of the RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow and the Alexader von Humboldt Research Fellow. His research interests include stochastic control systems, singular systems, data-driven modelling, estimation and filtering, fault diagnosis, resilient control, intelligent optimisation, power electronics, wind energy systems, wave energy systems, and electrical vehicles. He has editorial experience as an academic editor for over 10 refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, ISA Transactions (Elsevier), Renewable Energy (Elsevier), and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer) and so forth.