Motor Driven Systems, Audit and Analysis

Professor Lock has a unique blend of practicing and academic experience acquired through a career which is equally split between the industry and the academia. He received his B.Sc. (1st Class Honours) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1975 from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He completed his Ph.D. degree at the same university in 1979 researching on the design optimization of electrical machines. He joined the National University of Singapore as a lecturer in 1980 and was the Head of its Power and Machines Division, Department of Electrical Engineering, when he left in 1997 to set up his consulting practice. He returned to the academia in 2016 as a Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology.

He is an Emeritus President and Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He has served as a Board Member of the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore for 14 years. He is well-versed with standards and codes of practice and was the Chairman of Singapore Standards Council for 6 years, actively contributing to the promotion and establishment of Standards and Codes of Practice in Singapore. He plays an active role in energy efficiency, being the Chairman of Accreditation Committee for Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and the Co-Chair of Steering Committee of Singapore Certified Energy Managers (SCEM) Scheme. He received the Public Service Medal (2015) and the Public Service Star (2020). He was conferred the Outstanding Power Engineer Award by the IEEE Power Engineering Chapter in 1998. He is a Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore, Senior Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology and Honorary Fellow of ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations. He is the co-author of a book “Grounds for Grounding: a Circuit-to-System Handbook”. The 2^nd edition was published by IEEE/John Wiley in 2023.

Dr. Rathore is a Professor of the Engineering faculty, at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). He is an expert in power electronics and control of electric motor drives and received the Gold Medal for securing the highest academic standing in his Master’s degree. Dr. Rathore is a recipient of many prestigious awards including the 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award, the 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems and the 2021 Nagamori Award. He has published about 285 research papers in international journals and conferences, including 96 IEEE TRANSACTIONS. His research is mainly focused on the analysis and design of novel current-fed converters (topologies and modulation), soft-switching design and modulation schemes for the dc/dc converters, pulsating DC link (electrolytic capacitorless) inverters, and control of multilevel inverters.

Dr Shuyu Cao received Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She received B.Eng. and M.Eng degrees in Electrical Drive and Industry Automation Engineering from Tianjin University, China. She is currently a lead professional officer at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). Prior to joining SIT, she has worked as a senior research fellow in Energy Research Institute of NTU in Singapore, as a servo control manager at Western Digital Singapore HDD R&D Center, as an associate principal engineer in wind turbine converter control at Vestas R&D Singapore, as a staff servo control engineer in Seagate Singapore HDD R&D Center, and as a senior electronic design engineer in Tianjin Research and Design Institute of Electrical Drive (TRIED) in Tianjin City, China.