School of EEE
NRF Fellow, Class 2020
Postdoc (MIT)
PhD (HKU)
BEng (HKU, 1st Hon)
SMIEEE
CEng
Co-Director
Panasonic Industry-NTU Joint Lab
chtlee@ntu.edu.sg
Dr. Lee received his B. Eng. in Electrical Engineering with 1st Class Honors at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2009. He then served as an Instructor in a local school for two years. He obtained his Ph.D. in his alma mater with the Best Thesis Award in 2016. Subsequently, he has been awarded a Croucher Fellowship to further his research interests as a Postdoc Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has joined Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in October 2018 and later as a Nanyang Assistant Professor (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/research/research-careers/nanyang-assistant-professorship-(nap)). He is elected as a prestigious Singapore NRF Fellow, Class 2020 (https://www.nrf.gov.sg/grants/nrff/). In March 2024, he has promoted as Associate Professor with Tenure.
Dr. Lee is an expert in electric motors and drives, renewable energies and electromechanical propulsion systems. In these fields, he has published 2 books, 4 book chapters, 9 patents and over 270 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals and international conferences, primarily in IEEE Transactions and IET journals. He has served as the main authors, i. e., either corresponding author or first author of most of these publications. He has received over 4,300 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index exceeding 38. His annual citation on Google Scholar has exceeded 1200 annually, while he could be the youngest in the motor field among the whole world to achieve it.
He has served as Principal Investigator for grants totaling over SGD 13.5 million (approximately USD 10 million). His innovative ideas have been adopted by major corporations, including Panasonic (Japan) for servo motors, Rolls-Royce (UK) for hybrid aircraft, Magna International (USA) for electric vehicles, Schaeffler Group (Germany) for robotic arms, and Jingsu Xinri E-Vehicle Co. Ltd (China) for electric bikes. Notably, Panasonic has partnered with NTU to establish a Joint Lab, focusing on new motor concepts and 3D-printing technology, with an investment of SGD 5 million to support over eight concurrent projects. He has been appointed as the Director on the NTU side, overseeing these initiatives alongside Principal Investigators from the Schools of EEE, Mechanical Engineering, and Material Science.
He has also been invited to serve as a visiting faculty member at prestigious institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the University of Hong Kong (HKU). His contributions to the field have been recognized through various awards, including the Nagamori Award (He was the first recipient under 40), the IEEE Myron Zucker Award (the first recipient outside the USA and Canada), the JSPS Invitation Fellowship for collaborative research in Japan, the NRF Fellowship (the most prestigious entry award foryoung researchers in Singapore), and the MDPI Energies Young Investigator Award. He has received the Nanyang Assistant Professorship, recognizing him as atop 1 % faculty member at Nanyang Technological University, and the Croucher Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research at MIT, along with several paper awards, including the First Place Best Paper Award from IEEE TEC and the Top Cited Article from IET RPG.