报告题目：New and Better: Methodology for a Better Thesis and Research

报告时间：2019年5月13日上午9：00

报告地点：信息学馆301会议室

报 告 人：刘雁飞 教授 （Prof. Yan-Fei Liu）

邀 请 人：杨东升 教授

Abstract: New and BETTER is an extremely important philosophy for your research and thesis. By “New”, it means new idea, new technology, anything that has not been proposed before. By “BETTER”, it means that the new ideas you proposed is better in at least some aspects. The criteria to evaluate if the new idea is significant is how much better it is as compared with the existing solutions. The seminar will also discuss other strategies to improve your research capability and how to write the best thesis you could possibly get. Using the development history of Charge Balance Control (CBC) technology, this seminar will discuss some strategies to propose new ideas and how to explore the significance of the new ideas. In addition, by focusing on New and BETTER philosophy, a seemly simple circuit can increase the efficiency of an LLC converter from 95% to 95.8%.

演讲人简介：Prof. Yan-Fei Liu is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering（加拿大工程院院士）. He received his Bachelor and Master degree from Zhejiang University in 1984 and 1987, and PhD degree from Queen’s University in 1994. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Queen’s University.His current research interests include optimal application of latest wide band gap devices, such as GaN switches, digital control technologies for high efficiency, fast dynamic response dc–dc switching converter and ac–dc converter with power factor correction, resonant converters and server power supplies, and LED drivers. He has authored over 270 technical papers in the IEEE Transactions and conferences, and holds more than 39 U.S. patents and several Chinese patents. He is also a Principal Contributor for two IEEE standards.

Currently, Prof. Liu is the Vice President of Technical Operations of IEEE Power Electronics Society (2017-2020). His other major services to IEEE are: Editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics of Power Electronics since 2013; General chair of IEEE Energy Conversion Conference & Congress 2019; Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics; Chair of IEEE Power Electrical Society Technical Committee on Power Conversion Systems and Components.