Academic Profile : Faculty

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Assoc Prof Christopher H. T. Lee
Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
NRF Fellow, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
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Biography

Dr. Lee received his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering with 1st Class Honors at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2009. He then served as an Instructor in a local school for two years. He obtained his Ph.D. in his alma mater with the Best Thesis Award in 2016. Subsequently, he has been awarded a Croucher Fellowship to further his research interests as a Postdoc Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has joined Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in October 2018 and later as a Nanyang Assistant Professor (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/research/research-careers/nanyang-assistant-professorship-(nap). He is selected as a prestigious Singapore NRF Fellow, Class 2020 (https://www.nrf.gov.sg/funding-grants/nrf-fellowship). 

 

Dr. Lee is an expert in electric motors and drives, renewable energies and electromechanical propulsion systems. In these fields, he has published 1 book, 3 book chapters, 3 patents and over 120 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals and international conferences. He has served as a PI for research grants with amount exceeding SGD 8 millions (~USD 5.9 millions).  His research has been highlighted by NRF as a feature story: https://www.nrf.gov.sg/features/scientists/page/0/towards-advanced-electric-motors

 

Dr. Lee is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT and Honorary Assistant Professor at HKU. He is a IEEE Senior Member, a Chartered Engineer, an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, a member of Editorial Board for IEEE Access and IET Renewable Power Generation.

 

Should you want to find our more information of his research, please feel free to access: https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/chtlee/index.html

 

Research Interests

• Electric motors and drives
• Renewable energies
• Electric vehicles
• Electric aircraft
• Robotics
• Wind turbine

I am also looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow with experiences in electric motor and drives. Fresh Ph.D. graduates or Ph.D. candidates who are close to completion are both welcome.
 

Current Grants

  • Additive Manufacturing of Copper Windings for Motors
  • Design Principle and Practice of Novel Bearingless Motor Systems with Improved Suspension Performances
  • Development and optimization of permanent-magnet motor drives for power-assisted bike application
  • Development of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Aircraft in Singapore
  • Development of NetZero BEMS through AI-based HVAC System Control
  • Development of Novel Electric Machine Systems with Gearless Structure for Emerging Applications
  • High-performance Coreless Motor with Additive Manufacturing Method (Phase 2)
  • High-Performance Electric Machine with Axial-Flux Structure for Ship Propulsion
  • High-torque-density Vernier Motor with Additive Manufacturing Method (Phase 2)
  • Multi-material Magnetic Core
  • Mutual Interaction between Two Pairs of Electrodes with Distinct Electrochemical Potentials
  • P2 Novel Actuators for Robotic Applications
  • P2.3 Magnetic-geared Motor for Robotic Applications including Drivetrain for AMR
  • Panasonic-NTU Joint Lab
  • Panasonic-NTU Joint Lab (Renovation and OOE)
  • Project 3 - Magnetic Soft Grippers
  • Ultra-small Integrated Servo Motor Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing Method (Phase 2)
  • WP2: Development of High-Performance Electric Traction Module (HiPe E-TraM)
  • WP2.1: Advanced Electric Motor Technologies

Awards & Recognition

Awards
2022 - Early Career Teaching Excellent Award
2021 - MDPI Energies Young Investigator Award
2020 - Nanyang Assistant Professorship
2017 - Springer Theses Award (2018); Li Ka Shing Prize
 
Fellowships & Other Recognition
2020 - NRF Fellowship
2016 - Croucher Fellowship
 

Teaching

Courses Taught
EE3015 - Power Systems and Conversion
EE6503 - Modern Electrical Drives
 
Supervision of PhD Students
Wei Liu (2021) - Design, analysis and application of smart wireless power transfer
Libing Cao (2020) - Design, analysis and application of advanced hybrid-excited brushless double salient machines