Guohai Liu (M’07–SM’15) received a B.Sc. from Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, in 1985, and M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1988 and 2002 in electrical engineering and control engineering, respectively. Since 1988, he has been with Jiangsu University, where since 2002, he has been a Professor with the School of Electrical Information Engineering. He is currently the Director of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drive and Intelligent Control for Electric Vehicles. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. His teaching and research interests include electrical machines, motor drives for EV, and intelligent control. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 technical papers and four textbooks and is the holder of 80 patents in these areas. Professor Liu is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK.