Shaopeng Wu (S’10-M’11-SM’19), Associate Professor of HIT, Ph.D. Supervisor, was born in Heilongjiang, China, in 1983. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 2005, 2008, and 2011, respectively. He was Visiting Scholar of Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC) with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison WI, USA, from 2013 to 2014. His current research interests include the design and control of special electric machines, the research of multiphysical coupling, and the related technologies in electromagnetic launch field. He has been a member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society since 2011. He was a recipient of the Peter J. Kemmey Memorial Scholarship by the 15th International EML Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, in 2010.