Dr Zhiwei Gao

Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

Dr David (Zhiwei) Gao

Reader. Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

Before joining Northumbira University, he held research and academic positions respectively in Newcaslte University, University of Liverpool, University of Leicester, University of Manchester, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Tianjin University.聽

He was elevated to for contributions to real-time diagnosis and control for wind turbine systems in 2023. He is awarded the devoting to real-time diagnosis and health management for wave energy conversion systems in 2024. He is also the , , and Fellow of HEA.

Dr. Gao is currently the Co-EIC of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Senior Editor of IEEE Access, Assoicate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems,聽 and the editorial board member of Renewable Energy (Elsevier).

He was the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industral Electronics, and ISA Transactions (Elsevier), and the Area Editor of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer).聽

Zhiwei Gao

  • Engineering PhD April 14 1996
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (AvH Research Fellow) 2004
  • Fellow, Industry Academy within the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) 2024
  • Royal Academy Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Fellowship (RAEng/Leverhulme Research Fellow) 2024
  • Fellow Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) 2023
  • Fellow Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2023
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015


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