Academic Staff

Electric & Hybrid Vehicles, Machines & Drives, Clean Energy, Power Electronics

Professor K.T. Chau received his B.Sc.(Eng.) degree with First Class Honours, M.Phil. degree, and Ph.D. degree all in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong. He joined the alma mater in 1995, and currently serves as Professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Director of the International Research Centre for Electric Vehicles, and Co-Director of BEng degree in Electrical Engineering.

He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET, Senior Member of the IEEE, and Member of the HKIE. He has served as chairs and organizing committee members for many international conferences, especially in the area of Electric Vehicles. Currently, he serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Asian Electric Vehicles, and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, the Progress in Electromagnetics Research, and the IET Electric Power Applications. He has also been international consultants for electric light buses and electric motorcycles. Professor Chau has published over 350 refereed technical papers and many industrial reports. His teaching philosophy follows the Confucian classic "Li Ji" - Teaching and learning are mutually motivating.

Professor Chau has received many awards: including the Chang Jiang Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education, China; the National Overseas Young Researcher Award by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); the Environmental Excellence in Transportation Award for Education, Training and Public Awareness by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International; the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology at the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning; the University Teaching Fellow Award by The University of Hong Kong; and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award by The University of Hong Kong.

In community service, he currently serves as Member of Electrical Safety Advisory Committee for the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, and Member of the Accreditation Advisory Board for the Hong Kong Accreditation Service of Innovation and Technology Commission.

• C.C. Chan and K.T. Chau
  Modern Electric Vehicle Technology. Oxford University Press, November 2001, 300 pages.


• K.T. Chau and Z. Wang
  Chaos in Electric Drive Systems – Analysis, Control and Application. Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2011, 318 pages.

• K.T. Chau
  Electric Motor Drives for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles. In Electric Vehicles: Technology, Research and Development, ed. G.B. Raines. Nova Science Publishers, December 2009, pp. 1-40.


• K.T. Chau
  Hybrid Vehicles. In Alternative Fuels for Transportation, ed. A.S. Ramadhas. CRC Press / Taylors and Francis Group, November 2010, pp. 361-391.

• K.T. Chau and C.C. Chan
  “Emerging energy-efficient technologies for hybrid electric vehicles,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 95, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 821-835.


• S. Ye and K.T. Chau
  “Chaoization of DC motors for industrial mixing,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 54, no. 4, August 2007, pp. 2024-2032.


• S.W. Chung and K.T. Chau
  “A new compliance control approach for traveling-wave ultrasonic motors,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 55, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 302-311.


• K.T. Chau, C.C. Chan and C. Liu
  “Overview of permanent magnet brushless drives for electric and hybrid electric vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 55, no. 6, June 2008, pp. 2246-2257.


• L. Jian, K.T. Chau and J.Z. Jiang
  “A magnetic-geared outer-rotor permanent-magnet brushless machine for wind power generation,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 45, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 954-962.


• C. Liu, K.T. Chau and X. Zhang
  “An efficient wind-photovoltaic hybrid generation system using doubly-excited permanent-magnet brushless machine,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 57, no. 3, March 2010, pp. 831-839.


• L. Jian and K.T. Chau
  “A coaxial magnetic gear with Halbach permanent magnet arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 25, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 319-328.


• W. Zhao, K.T. Chau, M. Cheng, J. Ji and X. Zhu
  “Remedial brushless AC operation of fault-tolerant doubly-salient permanent-magnet motor drives,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 57, no. 6, June 2010, pp. 2134-2141.


• C. Liu, K.T. Chau and W. Li
  “Comparison of fault-tolerant operations for permanent-magnet hybrid brushless motor drive,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 45, no. 6, June 2010, pp. 1378-1381.


• C. Liu, K.T. Chau and J.Z. Jiang
  “A permanent-magnet hybrid brushless integrated-starter-generator for hybrid electric vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 57, no. 12, December 2010, pp.4055-4064.