Wen Soong

Associate Professor Wen Soong

Associate Professor

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


I am an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. My research interests include: high performance permanent magnet and reluctance electrical machines and drives, energy storage applications in power systems and condition monitoring of electrical machines.

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Principal Supervisor Explainable, Transparent and Trustworthy Data-Driven, Modelling of Underground Electric Mining Trucks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Tamsa .
    2022 Principal Supervisor Optimal Energy Storage and Infrastructure Design and Operation for Mining's Electrified Mobile Fleet Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Behnam Hashemian Ataabadi
    2022 Co-Supervisor Energy and storage infrastructure design for charging mine operational battery supported electric vehicles (EV) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Shah Islam
    2021 Co-Supervisor UAiPhD - Flexibility Aggregator Simulation Platform (FRESNO): Prosumers Price Response Modelling (FRESNO B) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Rui Yuan
    2021 Co-Supervisor Redox Flow Battery Modelling and Energy Management Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hao Wang
    2013 Co-Supervisor High Power Density, Low Cogging Torque and Low-Cost Micro-Scale Wind Turbine Generator System Utilising Soft Magnetic Composite Materials Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Yik Ling Lim
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2015 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Household Energy System Sizing Technique to Minimise Household Energy Cost and Estimate Optimal System Size Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Brett John Donnellan
    2014 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Integrated Motor System Estimation Using Efficiency Maps Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Gabriel Graham Haines
    2014 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Investigation of High-Efficiency Radial and Tapered Brushless PM Machines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Solmaz Kahourzade
    2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Investigation and Analysis of Decentralised Multilevel Modular Integrated Converters in Small Scale Grid-Tied PV Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr David Matthew Scholten
    2011 - 2017 Principal Supervisor The Voltage and Power-Factor Control of PM Generators in Small-Scale Wind Turbine Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Lujie Chen
    2010 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Design of Permanent Magnet Machines for Field-weakening Operation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chun Tang
    2008 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Detailed Investigation of Negative Sequence Current Compensation Technique for Stator Shorted Turn Fault Detection of Induction Motors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Syaiful Bakhri
    2008 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Modelling and Controlling of Phase Advance Modulation for Small Scale Wind Turbines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mehanathan Pathmanathan
    2008 - 2010 Principal Supervisor Analysis and Modelling of the Effects of Inertia and Parameter Errors on Wind Turbine Output Power Master of Engineering Science Master Full Time Mr Chun Tang
    2007 - 2008 Co-Supervisor Investigation and Development of a Real-Time On-Site Condition Monitoring System for Induction Motors Master of Engineering Science Master Full Time Mr Syaiful Bakhri
    2006 - 2010 Co-Supervisor Sensorless Position Estimation in Fault-Tolerant Permanent Magnet AC Motor Drives with Redundancy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jae An
    2005 - 2010 Co-Supervisor Low-Cost Current-Source 1-ph Photovoltaic Grid-Connected Inverter Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Gurhan Ertasgin
    2004 - 2008 Co-Supervisor Modelling, Simulation and Implementation of a Fault Tolerant Permanent Magnet AC Motor Drive with Redundancy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jingwei Zhu
    2004 - 2009 Co-Supervisor Analysis and Design of Single-Sided, Slotted AMM Axial-Field Permanent Magnet Machines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Gene Liew
    2004 - 2009 Principal Supervisor Low-Cost Small-Scale Wind Power Generation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr David Whaley
    2004 - 2008 Co-Supervisor On-line Condition Monitoring and Detection of Stator and Rotor Faults in Induction Motors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Randy Supangat
    2003 - 2010 Principal Supervisor Analysis of Idle Power and Iron Loss Reduction in an Interior PM Automotive Alternator Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Vlatka Zivotic-Kukolj
    2003 - 2013 Principal Supervisor A High Power Interior Permanent Magnet Alternator for Automotive Applications Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chong-Zhi Liaw
    2003 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Investigation of Single and Multiple Faults Under Varying Load Conditions Using Multiple Sensor Types to Improve Condition Monitoring of Induction Machines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Intesar Ahmed
    2003 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Improving the Automatic Classification of Power Quality Events Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ameen Gargoom
  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 83134117
  • Email: wen.soong@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134360
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor Level Three
  • Room: 3.53
  • Org Unit: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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