Dr Chao Gong is currently a professor at the School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He received his M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of York, UK. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, between 2022 and 2023. His research interests include robot actuators, motion control, electrical machine design and drives, and power electronics. He holds 10+ granted patents in the area of motor drives. He was awarded the IET Postgraduate Prize and IET Travel Award for his research on the safety of high-voltage powertrain based electric vehicles and the KM Stott Prize for excellence in scientific research in 2021.