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Dr.-Ing. Jingxin Hu is a Full Professor with College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China. He receives the national research grant for distinguished overseas young researchers, and he is recognized as a Changkong Scholar of NUAA. 

Dr. Hu received his Bachelor degree from Northeastern University, China in 2010, and Master and Ph.D. degrees both with summa cum laude from RWTH Aachen University, Germany in 2013 and 2019, all in electrical engineering. His dissertation was supervised by Prof. Rik W. De Doncker and Prof. Johann W. Kolar, working on high-power DC-DC converters for utility applications. He used to hold multiple positions in industry and academia in the past decade. In 2012, he was an intern with ABB Corporate Research at Baden-Dätwill, Switzerland. From 2013 to 2014, he worked as a research engineer at GE Global Research Center, Münich, Germany. From 2014 to 2022, he served as research associate and senior scientist sequentially at E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. From 2021 to 2022, he was also part-time with Flexible Elektrische Netze GmbH as Chief Technology Officer. In 2022, he joined NUAA and became a Full Professor at College of Automation Engineering. 

Dr. Hu has been involved in multiple key R&D projects in China, EU and Germany, such as NSFC research fundings, EU H2020 R&D funding, EU Erasmus+ project, BMBF R&D funding and BMWi R&D funding.  Until now, he has published more than 40 peer reviewed papers in IEEE transactions, journals and conference proceedings. He holds two German patents and he has authored/co-authored 2 book/book chapters. He is lecturer of more than 10 tutorials at IEEE conferences such as ECCE and ECCE Asia. 

Dr. Hu admits 1-2 Ph.D students and 3-5 Master students each year. His research interests include high-power electronics, solid-state transformers, power electronics for renewable integration and energy storage systems, DC transmission and distribution systems, onboard power system for electric aircraft, and various applications of wide bandgap devices.