Dr Zhiwei Gao

Associate Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Dr David (Zhiwei) Gao

Reader. Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

Before joining Northumbira University, he held research and academic positions respectively in Newcaslte University, University of Liverpool, University of Leicester, University of Manchester, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Tianjin University.

He was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to real-time diagnosis and control for wind turbine systems in 2023. He was awarded the RAEng / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship devoting to real-time diagnosis and health management for wave energy conversion systems in 2024. He is also the Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of AIIA, and Fellow of HEA.

Dr. Gao is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Senior Editor of IEEE Access, Section Editor-in-Chief of Processes, Assoicate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, and the editorial board member of Renewable Energy (Elsevier).

He was the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industral Electronics, and ISA Transactions (Elsevier), and the Area Editor of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer).

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Key Publications

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Adaptive Conflict Resolution Model for Large-Group Decision-Making Based on Dynamic Trust Relationship Evolution and Weight Determination, Yan, B., Fan, Z., Xu, Q., Xie, T., Gao, Z. 6 Jan 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Nonlinear optimal control of a two-link rigid-flexible robotic manipulator, Rigatos, G., Siano, P., Cuccurullo, G., Abbaszadeh, M., Busawon, K., Gao, Z., Zouari, F. 14 Jan 2026, In: JVC/Journal of Vibration and Control
PIUL-DERs: Physics-informed pseudo-labeling unsupervised learning for smart homes with distributed energy resources, Huang, Y., Jiang, J., Gao, Z., Sun, H., Gao, Z. 15 Jan 2026, In: Applied Energy
A Graph Neural Network Recommendation System for Joint Comment Text Representation, Min, J., Wei, W., Wang, B., Gao, Z., Quan, D. 7 Nov 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
An Event-Triggered Interval Observer Scheme for Fault Diagnosis of Cyber–Physical DC Microgrids, Jin, H., Zhang, Z., Yang, G., Zuo, Z., Gao, Z., Wang, Y. 1 Apr 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Application and Research of Music Generation System Based on CVAE and Transformer-XL in Video Background Music, Min, J., Gao, Z., Wang, L. 1 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Designing a Completely Distributed Interval Observer for the LTI System, Wang, X., Xu, W., Su, H., Gao, Z., Chen, G. 1 Mar 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Enhanced Parity-Time Symmetric Range in Magnetically Coupled Resonant Wireless Power Transfer Systems Using High-Order S-SPC Topology, Yang, F., Wu, H., Gao, Z. 1 Sep 2025, 2025 Energy Conversion Congress & Expo Europe (ECCE Europe), Piscataway, United States, IEEE
Enhancing Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection With an Inference Stacked Recurrent-Autoencoder in Strong Mechanistic Contexts, Xie, T., Gao, Z., Xu, Q., Jiang, C., Zhang, A. 1 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Fault diagnosis for VSC-HVDC transmission systems using Kalman Filter-based disturbance observers, Rigatos, G., Gao, Z., Busawon, K., Siano, P., AL-Numay, M., Abbaszadeh, M. 18 Dec 2025, In: International Journal of Systems Science

Current and Recent Projects

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Lingusitics Course, Busawon, K. (Principal Investigator), Gao, Z. (Co Investigator), Regional Center and Nancy Territorial Center | Epinal, 01/03/20 - 30/04/20, 0.00

PGR Supervision

Shaoyu Hu Start Date: 01/11/2025

Qualifications

Engineering PhD April 14 1996
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (AvH Research Fellow) 2004
Fellow, Industry Academy within the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) 2024
Royal Academy Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Fellowship (RAEng/Leverhulme Research Fellow) 2024
Fellow Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) 2023
Fellow Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2023
Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015