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Wu Chao

Doctoral Supervisor

Research Directions

High voltage external insulation, equipment insulation under severe electro-thermal coupling conditions, artificial intelligence and digital technologies in the field of electrical equipment and insulating dielectrics

Room 308, High Voltage Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Special Researcher, Assistant Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. Selected for the National Young Talent Program (2022). Graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University in July 2013, and obtained a Ph.D. from the same department in July 2018. From March to August 2017, served as a visiting scholar at the University of Leicester, UK. From October 2018 to March 2022, conducted postdoctoral research at the Electrical Insulation Research Center (EIRC) at the University of Connecticut, USA, and served as a Research Assistant Professor from April to November 2022. Joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University in December 2022.

Main research areas include organic external insulation for power transmission and transformation systems, equipment insulation under harsh electrothermal coupling conditions, and artificial intelligence and digital technologies in the field of electrical equipment and insulating dielectrics. Focusing on scientific issues such as the mechanism of dielectric molecular structure on charge transport and relaxation processes under harsh electrothermal coupling conditions and the controllability of charge injection at dielectric-electrode interfaces with defects, the research combines molecular engineering and interface engineering technologies. Collaborating with teams, the researcher pioneered a modular cooperative dielectric molecular structure design method and a two-dimensional coating self-assembly technology to suppress interface defects. Artificial intelligence has been applied to the study of new dielectric materials, leading to the development of a new system of dielectric materials capable of withstanding harsh electrothermal coupling conditions. Over 90 papers have been published in journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, Adv. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., Appl. Phys. Lett., Matter, IEEE Trans. DEI, and High Volt. Awards include the Third Prize for Science and Technology Progress from the State Grid Corporation of China and the Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress from the China Southern Power Grid.