People – Self-Aware Power Networks

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Dr Xiandong Ma Dr. Ma is a reader at Lancaster University. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow member of IET and the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College. He held a KTP Fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney in 2018. Dr. Ma served as Technical Program Chair for IEEE ICAC’18 and General Conference Chair for IEEE ICAC’19. He was President of the Chinese Automation and Computing Society in the UK (CACSUK) from 2019 to 2021. Stanford University recently ranked him among the world’s top 2% of scientists for citation impact. LEARN MORE	Prof Neeraj Suri Dr. Suri is a leading expert in cybersecurity and dependable systems, holding the Distinguished Professorship and Chair in Cybersecurity at Lancaster University (UK) and Leipzig (Germany). He co-directed Lancaster’s Security Institute from 2019 to 2024 and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously, he held prominent positions, including the Chair Professorship on Dependable Systems at TU Darmstadt and visiting roles at institutions such as Microsoft Research, the University of Texas at Austin, and Technion. LEARN MORE	Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani is a postdoctoral researcher at Lancaster University, focusing on autonomous power systems, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cyber-physical power systems (CPPS). She brings expertise in power electronics and its applications, such as wireless power transfer (WPT), electric vehicles (EVs), and renewable energy integration. Her skill set includes printed circuit board (PCB) design, ARM/DSP microcontrollers, and programming languages, such as C/C++, Python, and MATLAB. LEARN MORE

Principal Investigator

Co-Investigator

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Xiandong Ma

Dr. Ma is a reader at Lancaster University. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow member of IET and the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College. He held a KTP Fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney in 2018. Dr. Ma served as Technical Program Chair for IEEE ICAC’18 and General Conference Chair for IEEE ICAC’19. He was President of the Chinese Automation and Computing Society in the UK (CACSUK) from 2019 to 2021. Stanford University recently ranked him among the world’s top 2% of scientists for citation impact.

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Prof Neeraj Suri

Dr. Suri is a leading expert in cybersecurity and dependable systems, holding the Distinguished Professorship and Chair in Cybersecurity at Lancaster University (UK) and Leipzig (Germany). He co-directed Lancaster’s Security Institute from 2019 to 2024 and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously, he held prominent positions, including the Chair Professorship on Dependable Systems at TU Darmstadt and visiting roles at institutions such as Microsoft Research, the University of Texas at Austin, and Technion.

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Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani

Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani is a postdoctoral researcher at Lancaster University, focusing on autonomous power systems, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cyber-physical power systems (CPPS). She brings expertise in power electronics and its applications, such as wireless power transfer (WPT), electric vehicles (EVs), and renewable energy integration. Her skill set includes printed circuit board (PCB) design, ARM/DSP microcontrollers, and programming languages, such as C/C++, Python, and MATLAB.

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