方大庆

Michael Tai Ching Fang

报告题目：开关电弧建模与仿真的发展历史与未来趋势：个人见解

简介：

      方大庆教授最初于清华大学完成本科学习；于1965年在剑桥大学获电气工程一等荣誉学士学位；同年获剑桥大学奖学金及冈维尔与凯斯学院奖学金；于1969年获牛津大学等离子体物理哲学博士学位；由于其在低温等离子体物理研究领域的突出贡献，于1995年被牛津大学授予理学博士学位；于1994年被选为电气工程学会会士。

      方教授于1968年任牛津大学研究员，随后就职于伦敦帝国理工学院，并从1970年起分别任利物浦大学讲师和教授，从1998年至2001年任电气与电子工程系主任，于2003年被任命为名誉教授，2003年至2004年任利物浦大学副校长顾问，2005年至2011年任利物浦大学名誉副校长。此外，方教授积极参与苏州西交利物浦大学的筹建工作，并任2006年第一任常务副校长。

      多年来，方教授的主要研究领域包括：低温等离子体的基础及应用、基于透地雷达的环境保护、人工智能在电气工程的应用等。在国际重要学术刊物或会议上发表论文250余篇，在国际会议、大学、研究机构作特邀报告或学术讲座多次，是包括英国物理学会、英国电气工程学会以及诸多学术会议的委员，也是零点俱乐部成员。

     此外，方教授于1978至1979年曾任澳大利亚悉尼大学William Watson Girling Fellow及奥地利Innsbruck 大学理论物理系科学家，是清华大学、西安交通大学及沈阳工业大学的客座教授，是利物浦大学和西交利物浦大学的名誉教授，曾任英国Brush熔断器厂及开关厂的顾问，曾任韩国电气工程技术研究院顾问，韩国LG Industrial System公司及Hyosung公司的顾问。

Title of talk: Historical and Future Development of Switching Arc Modelling and Simulation: A Personal Perspective

Biography：

He received his undergraduate education firstly at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and continued his studies at the University of Cambridge where he graduated in 1965 with a first class honours degree (B.A) in Electrical Sciences. In the same year he was awarded a college prize and the Salomon Scholarship by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was awarded D.Phil in plasma physics in 1969 by Oxford University. In 1995 he was conferred the Degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) for his distinguished contribution to low-temperature plasma physics by Oxford University. He was elected fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1994. In 2016 he was awarded HonDLL by Liverpool University and an Hon. DEng by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.

He was a research fellow at Oxford University in 1968 and then at Imperial College, London, before he joined the University of Liverpool in 1970, where he was lecturer, reader and professor. He was the Head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics from 1998 to 2001. He became emeritus professor in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 he was an advisor to the Vice Chancellor of Liverpool University. He served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University from June 2005 to January 2011. He was intimately involved in the setting up of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou and was its first Executive Vice-President in 2006.

For many years he was actively engaged in fundamental research and applications of low-temperature plasmas, in environment protection using ground penetration radar, and in the application of artificial intelligence to electrical power engineering. He has published over 250 papers in major international journals and conferences. He has given a number of keynote speeches and lectures at international conferences, universities and research institutes. He served on the committees of several international conferences, the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Electrical Engineers of the UK. He is a member of Current Zero Club.

Professor Fang was a William Watson Girling Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia in 1978-79 and a visiting scientist at the University of Innsbruck, Austria in 1978. From 2008 to 2012 he was a professor at Xian Jiaotong University. He is also an honorary professor of the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He was a guest professor at Tsinghua University, Shenyang University of Technology and Xi’an Jiaotong University. He was a consultant to Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, LG Systems and Hyosung Corporation in South Korea.