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Gothenburg, Se

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

Motor Drive System Design, Integration, and Verification for Industrial and Marine New Business Applications(EMD: Electric Motor Drive)• Leading an agile team of system engineers. Plan and prioritize work using JIRA to achieve product strategies. • Leading motor drive system calibration and verification of terminal tractors in an industrial application project.• Leading an advanced engineering project of next-generation EMDs (both SW and HW) for future product roadmap.• Designed and implemented GUI and data analysis scripts using Python for EMD SW calibration process.• Conducted EMD SW calibration for various electric machines for optimized torque accuracy and efficiency.• Analyzed and successfully solved critical e-propulsion issues at customer frontline in Belgium.• Analyzing and developing resolver calibration strategy for end-of-line and aftermarket.

Gothenburg, Sweden

R&D of inhouse electric motor control ECU for Volvo Group's e-mob products, from early prototyping to SOP.Responsible for complete chain of development: Requirements handling, SW components design and implementation, SW unit/component test and integration, SW release, and verification in HIL, machine rigs, and vehicles.• Certified scrum master leading a team with 7 embedded SW engineers in SAFe framework.• Developed and tested high-quality microcontroller drivers for ADC, SPI, DMA, PWM, IO and complex device drivers for various sensors/actuators/external chips with optimized OS scheduling.• Key development for ECU safety: functional safety analysis, safety requirement breakdown, microcontroller safety library configuration and integration for watchdog and power supply monitoring.• Improved SW architecture within MCAL/CDD achieving enhanced code maintainability and modular scalability.• Conducted SW optimization and refactoring to achieve high computational efficiency and controller bandwidth.• Designed and implemented advanced signal processing and a cost-effective test rig for resolvers from scratch.• Mentoring and coaching internship, summer workers, and junior engineers.• Representative of the organization contributing to multiple cross-functional technical meetings and branding activities.• Advanced control analysis and design, e.g. current/speed loop, field-weakening, MTPA control.• Conducted SW calibration and field tests in Hällered.

Gothenburg, Sweden

AboutChalmers University of Technology is renowned for high-quality education, research excellence, and global vision of a sustainable future, with ~10,000 full-time students and ~3,000 employers.Dedicated to a research project developing a new conceptual electrically-excited synchronous machine for electric vehicles.• Designed and implemented advanced signal processing scheme for current sensors of motor control.• Improved embedded SW architecture to reduce execution time of control algorithm and enhance code maintainability.• Analyzed permanent magnetic synchronous machines and designed a 3-kW rotary transformer for the wireless power transfer systems using Ansys Maxwell 2D.• Developed a high-frequency converter for the brushless rotor excitation system.• Developed the system with computer-aided design (CAD) of for future manufacturing.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Electric Power EngineeringAwarded with Avancez scholarshipCompleted project: Design of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for Automotive Applications• Analyzed and designed magnetic circuits and stator windings based on a reference V-shape magnet geometry to maximize torque capability and reduce harmonics.• Worked collaboratively in a team to write a technical report and present results to the examiners.Completed courses:* Electrical Machines - Design and Analysis (grade: 5/5)* Power Electronic Converters (grade: 5/5)* Power System Analysis and Control (grade: 5/5) * High Voltage Engineering (grade: 5/5)

Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

AboutLITE-ON Technology Corp. is a publicly traded (2301.TW) company with ~55,000 employees and ~USD 7.5 billion in annual revenues producing products used in applications of consumer electronics, LED lighting, cloud computing, and industrial automation.Team leader of control design and embedded SW for industrial servo motor drives (new business unit)• Developed complete microcontroller and device drivers as well as control-application layers from scratch.• Analyzed multiple control loops using MATLAB and Simulink, developing and implementing an advanced digital control scheme to achieve specified bandwidth and to improve dynamic stiffness and disturbance rejection of motion control.• Improved embedded software structure of control-loop computation by optimizing code and prioritization of interrupt service routines, reducing execution time of control loops by 40%, and enhancing code maintainability.• Led and managed a preliminary research on control technology for the next-generation servo drive products.

Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

AboutSyntec Technology Co., LTD. is a technology company with ~500 employees specializing in developing PC-based computer numerical controllers and electrical control solutions for machine tools, industrial automation, and robotic arms.Led a group of control design and embedded software development of industrial servo drives with 5 R&D engineers. Responsible for technology roadmap planning, project management, performance review, competence development, and recruitment process.• Represented the company on a tour to Japan contributing to technical exchange workshops with Nidec Corporation, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Keio University.• Led a product development projects involving groups across hardware, firmware, and software departments.

Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

Conducted research on control technology and developed embedded software for industrial servo drives (new business area of the company).• Analyzed large experimental data sets, developing and implementing key control strategies to improve control performance, e.g. advanced design for current loop control and flux-weakening control, suppression of low speed pulsation, backlash compensation, and dual-feedback control.• Designed and implemented auto tuning functions adopted as standard features of the products, including identification of electrical parameters for induction motors, inertia estimation, and detection of initial rotor position for permanent magnet synchronous motors.• Led a project of dual CPU-based embedded software development, planning overall software architecture and components, e.g. resource allocation on each CPU, inter-processor communication mechanism, and code optimization.

Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

Conducted research thesis, entitled as "The Control Design and Switching Strategy for Maximizing Acceleration and Efficiency of the Induction Machine on Electrical Vehicles," under supervision of Professor Pau-Lo Hsu. The newly-developed control algorithms of electrical induction motors implemented on vehicles has been recognized by both academics and industry as follows:• Research results was published as a paper and presented in the 38th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) in 2012 in Montreal, Canada.• Won two prestige competitions in Taiwan: "The Third Place Award in Texas Instruments Asia DSP and MCU Application Contest 2012"; "The Best Energy-saving Award in 2012 TECO Green Tech Contest"

Electric Power Engineering

Completed courses: Electrical Machines - Design and Analysis (grade: 5/5) Power Electronic Converters (grade: 5/5) Power System Analysis.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical And Control Engineering, Gpa: 4.17 Out Of 4.3 Dean'S List

Thesis: “The Control Design and Switching Strategy for Maximizing Acceleration and Efficiency of the Induction Machine on Electric.

Exchage Program (6 Months), Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Leader of the dance competition on International Day in 2010 (IDAY 2010).

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering, Gpa: 3.98 Out Of 4.3 (Dean'S List)