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Magnetic Coupler and Power Conversion for Wireless Power Transfer Systems
This Special Session focuses on recent advances and emerging trends in magnetic coupler design and power conversion for wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. With the rapid deployment of WPT in consumer electronics, electric vehicles, medical implants, and autonomous systems, the magnetic link and power electronics fundamentally determine system efficiency, power density, misalignment tolerance, and electromagnetic compatibility. Recent industry moves toward miniaturization, dynamic charging, and stricter EMI regulations are driving the need for tightly integrated coupler-converter innovations.
Magnetic couplers and power conversion circuits jointly define the performance limits of WPT systems. Advances in coil design, magnetics, and shielding improve coupling and misalignment tolerance, while high-frequency inverters, compensation networks, and wide-bandgap devices boost efficiency and power density. Tight co-design of these elements is critical for optimizing impedance, thermal behavior, and dynamic response across operating conditions.
The scope includes magnetic coupler topologies, coil or core design, shielding, compensation networks, high-frequency converters, wide-bandgap devices, bidirectional architectures, loss and thermal analysis, anti-misalignment methods, dynamic charging hardware, EMC, and emerging implantable, wearable, and harsh-environment applications. The session provides an interdisciplinary platform for exchanging hardware innovations and discussing future directions in magnetic coupling and power conversion for WPT.
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Special Session Chair
Yongbin Jiang
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yongbin Jiang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in July 2020. From November 2020 to April 2022, he served as Head of the Digital Energy Laboratory at Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup. From April 2022 to May 2026, he conducted postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Jiang has been selected for a National Young Talent Program and the Young Top-notch Talent Program of Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was also awarded the Mistletoe Research Fellowship and the Shanghai "Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan" Sailing Program.
His research interests include high-efficiency and high-power-density wireless power transfer, high-power power electronic converters, magnetic coupler design, modeling and control of power electronic systems, and emerging applications of artificial intelligence in power electronics. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 SCI/EI-indexed papers, including one ESI highly cited paper, and holds more than 10 authorized Chinese and U.S. invention patents. He has received three IEEE Best Paper Awards.
Special Session Co-Chair
Jiantao Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Jiantao Zhang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2009, 2011, and 2019, respectively. From 2014 to 2016, he was a joint Ph.D. candidate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) with funding support from the China Scholarship Council. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the City University of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology. He has authored more than 40 research papers and holds over 26 invention patents. His awards include the Second Prize Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2021), the First Prize for Technological Invention from the Power Supply Society, and the Second Prize for Technological Invention of Heilongjiang Province. His research interests focus on power electronics and wireless power transfer for specialized applications.
Special Session Co-Chair
Kaiwen Chen
Ningbo University, China
Kaiwen Chen received his Bachelor degree at Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong in 2022. Currently, he is working at Ningbo University as a Full Professor, and he is also the founder and CEO of VoltAura Tech (Shenzhen) Co. LTD. He has published more than 20 journal and conference papers, and authorized 5 patents.
Special Session Co-Chair
Wei Liu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Prof. Wei Liu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, China, in 2021.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Research Centre for Electric Vehicles and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has also been an Honorary Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU, since 2023. Dr. Liu served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and was then promoted to a Research Assistant Professor from 2021 to 2023. He also worked as a Visiting Researcher with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), in 2019. His research interests include electric vehicle technologies, wireless power transfer, power electronics, bioelectronics, and semiconductor devices.
Dr. Liu was the recipient of the Power Engineering Prize from HKU, two Gold Medals with Congratulations of the Jury in the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, the Second Place Prize Paper Award of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), the Excellent Paper Award, and the Best Presentation Award from international conferences in the area of Electric Vehicles and Transportation Electrification. He is also a Guest Associate Editor of IEEE JESTPE, Associate Editor of international journals, and Session Chair of international conferences.
Special Session Co-Chair
Xin Gao
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Xin Gao, Associate Researcher and Chunyan Young Talent of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). He currently serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the Wireless Power Transfer Technology Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society, and Early Career Editorial Board Member of Wireless Power Transfer. He has long focused on Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT) technology, and has led 1 Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Project (Category B), 1 Heilongjiang Provincial Postdoctoral Fund Project, and 2 industry-academia collaboration projects. As a key participant, he has joined multiple national and provincial/ministerial programs including the National Science and Technology Major Project, National Natural Science Foundation projects and National Key R&D Program. To date, he has published 26 academic papers (10 SCI-indexed as first/corresponding author), holds 18 authorized invention patents with 31 pending, and received Best Paper Awards at IMCEC 2018 and ICWPT 2024.
Special Session Co-Chair
Chunchun Jia
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Dr. Chunchun Jia received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, in 2024.
He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong, China. His research interests include advanced control, optimization, and artificial intelligence for fuel cell vehicles and energy storage systems, as well as the prognostics and health management of fuel cell systems.
Dr. Jia was the recipient of the First Prize of the China Communications and Transportation association Science and Technology Progress Award in 2023, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from BIT in 2024, and the First Prize in the i-VISTA Autonomous Vehicle Virtual Simulation Challenge in 2021. He has authored 10 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 7 ESI Hot Papers in leading international journals and holds several invention patents in the field of fuel cell and energy management systems. He also serves as a Guest Editor for an international journal and a Session Chair for an international conference.