Dr Xiandong Ma
Lecturer
Research Interests
Dr Xiandong Ma took up his lectureship with the Engineering Department at Lancaster University in December 2008. He received his BEng in Electrical Engineering from Jiangsu University in 1986 and MSc in Power Systems and Automation in China State Grid Electric Power Research Institute (SGEPRI, formerly NARI) in 1989. He completed his PhD research in Partial Discharge based High-voltage Plant Condition Monitoring from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2002.
He has worked with SGEPRI in Nanjing as Research Engineer and Senior Research Engineer from 1989 to 1998, where he specialised in real-time power system simulation and instrumentation. He was a Visiting Research Engineer in RTDS Technologies Inc., Canada in 1996, developing new exciter model and investigating interface techniques for new RTDS-based test facilities. He worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2002 to 2007 firstly at Lancaster University and then at The University of Manchester, developing new generations of electromagnetic tomographic imaging systems. Thereafter, he worked with ALSTOM Power in Stafford as Generator Condition Monitoring Engineer for 18 months before returning to Lancaster.
His current research fields of interest include intelligent condition monitoring of advanced energy systems, and electromagnetic NDT testing and imaging. He has published over 60 papers on international journals and conferences. He is also currently Course Director for Sustainable Engineering and the 2nd Year Tutor in the Engineering Department at Lancaster University.
Dr Ma is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of IET.
Research interests and activities
- Intelligent condition monitoring of advanced energy systems and industrial processes
- Modelling and real-time simulation of distributed generation (DG) systems
- Combined heat and electricity generation using renewable energy sources including wind and wave turbines
- Electromagnetic sensors, NDT testing and tomographic imaging
- Advanced data mining, signal processing and instrumentation
