Dr. Nuwantha Fernando
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: School of Engineering
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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nuwantha.fernando@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1047-2936
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Nuwantha Fernando in a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Member of the Engineers Australia. He specialises in electrical machines, drives and control.
More information on Dr Fermando's past research (http://epg.eng.ox.ac.uk/users/nuwantha-fernando)
Industry Experience:
Professional affiliations
Member of the IEEE and the following societies within this body:
-Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
-Power Electronics Society (PELS)
-Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
Awards:
Recipient of the “Overseas Research Students Award and Research Scholarship“ 2008. Awarded by the University of Manchester.
Recipient of the best Electrical Engineering graduand Award 2007. Awarded by the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
More information on Dr Fermando's past research (http://epg.eng.ox.ac.uk/users/nuwantha-fernando)
Industry Experience:
Professional affiliations
Member of the IEEE and the following societies within this body:
-Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
-Power Electronics Society (PELS)
-Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
Awards:
Recipient of the “Overseas Research Students Award and Research Scholarship“ 2008. Awarded by the University of Manchester.
Recipient of the best Electrical Engineering graduand Award 2007. Awarded by the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
Academic positions
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jun 2013 – Present
- Research Fellow at the Power Electronics
- University of Nottingham
- Machines and Control Group
- , UK
- Dec 2011 – May 2013
- Teaching Assistant
- University of Manchester,
- Power Conversion Group
- , UK
- Sep 2008 – Jul 2011
- Lecturer (temp)
- University of Moratuwa
- Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- , Sri Lanka
- Nov 2007 – Jul 2008
Supervisor projects
- Adaptive Protection for AC/DC Microgrids and Power System
- 31 Mar 2024
- Design of Integrated Electric Motor and Drive Propulsion System for Fixed Wing Propeller-Driven Aircraft Applications
- 10 Jan 2023
- System Identification and Control with Neural Network Framework for an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
- 29 Jun 2022
- Model-Based Lithium-ion Battery Condition Monitoring
- 10 Mar 2022
- Integrated Drive Using Motor Windings for Electric Vehicle Application
- 28 May 2021
- Advanced Control of Integrated Chargers in Electric Vehicle Application
- 7 May 2019
- Development of a High-Speed Turbo Electric Propulsion System for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
- 9 Oct 2018
- Synchronous Reluctance Motor Modelling and Analysis
- 1 Mar 2018
- A Smart Mechatronic Base Isolation System Using Earthquake Early Warning
- 15 Feb 2018
- A Coordinated Control of PMSG based Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) to Improve Fault-Ride-Through (FRT) Performance and Transient Stability
- 1 Mar 2017
- Modelling of Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields in Electromagnetic Devices
- 18 Jul 2016
- Flux Switching Machine Design for High-Speed Geared Drives
- 29 Feb 2016
- Impact of Prominent Synchrophasor Estimation Algorithms on Power System Stability Assessment
- 6 Oct 2015
Teaching interests
Electrical Machine Design, Electrical Drives, Electric Vehicles, Battery Management, Fault tolerant Drives, Aircraft power systems, Aircraft power generation, Control Systems.
Research interests
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Civil Engineering
Research overview
Dr Nuwantha Fernando in a Chartered Professional Engineer (https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/ner/ner/17ahIf5PH5yDpJaWNAYYt5wobJzMavb%252FnE%252FzAo%252BSG7g%253D) and a Member of the Engineers Australia. He specialises in electrical machines, drives and control. Dr Fernando has engaged with industry to develop high speed generators for microturbine power generation, aircraft power generation and low speed generators for vortex turbines. Dr Fernando serves as an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.
The research interests of Dr Fernando include investigation of electric machines, drives and control systems in general. He is particularly interested in the design of rare-earth free electric machine structures in addition to the investigation of new permanent magnet-based concepts such as magnetic gearing. Dr Fernando has also experienced with the design of electrical machines and drives for high-speed applications such as aero-engine embedded generators and control design for electric drives for high efficiency.
Research overview
Dr Nuwantha Fernando in a Chartered Professional Engineer (https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/ner/ner/17ahIf5PH5yDpJaWNAYYt5wobJzMavb%252FnE%252FzAo%252BSG7g%253D) and a Member of the Engineers Australia. He specialises in electrical machines, drives and control. Dr Fernando has engaged with industry to develop high speed generators for microturbine power generation, aircraft power generation and low speed generators for vortex turbines. Dr Fernando serves as an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.
The research interests of Dr Fernando include investigation of electric machines, drives and control systems in general. He is particularly interested in the design of rare-earth free electric machine structures in addition to the investigation of new permanent magnet-based concepts such as magnetic gearing. Dr Fernando has also experienced with the design of electrical machines and drives for high-speed applications such as aero-engine embedded generators and control design for electric drives for high efficiency.
