Chunyang Gu was born in Heilongjiang, China, in 1988. She received BSc degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2010, and PhD degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2015, both in electrical engineering.
In 2015, she went to the University of Nottingham, UK, where she was a postdoc research fellow in Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Research Group. Since 2017, she has been an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and PEMC Research Group, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Her research interests include power electronics for transportation electrification, renewable energy and grid applications, e.g. solid-state transformer, solid-state circuit breaker, multi-level converter topologies and control, application of wide-band-gap semiconductor devices, power electronics in EV, railway, marine and MEA.