Dr Clay (Guoyu) Chu
Lecturer
Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Dr Clay (Guoyu) Chu is a Lecturer and Senior Research Associate in Energy Systems with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney. He is passionate about contributing to decarbonization through innovating more advanced electric drive and energy conversion technologies. He has recently been awarded the Australian Research Council's Early Career Industry Fellowship ($447k) and the Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering in 2023 for his resear...
E-mail
g.chu@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (Building G17) Level 1, Room 118
- Publications
- Grants
- Awards
- Teaching and Supervision
- 2025 ARC Discovery Project Grant, DP250100812 ($768k, CI)
- Lightweight, Low Rare-earth, Permanent Magnet Motors for Electrified Future
- 2024 Australia’s Economic Accelerator Seed Grant, AE240300143 ($198k, Co-Entrepreneur)
- Developing a Novel High-Efficiency Micro-Electric Vehicle Motor
- 2023 ARC Early Career Industry Fellowships Project, IE230100467 ($447k, Sole-CI)
- A More Sustainable High-speed Drive System for Air Conditioning Systems
- 2023 UNSW DGFI Seed Fund ($25,000, Sole-CI)
- 2023 UNSW Faculty Infrastructure Funding ($350k)
- Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses, 2022
- ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship, 2023
- Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering, 2023
- Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy, 2023
- Third Prize Paper Award - 2024 IEEE ECCE, 2024
My Research Supervision
High-speed electric drive systems
Fault diagnosis and post-fault control of electric machines
Wide bandgap switches for high-frequency drive applications
My Teaching
Teaching Experience:
- ELEC 3115 - Electromagnetic Engineering (Labs & Workshop)
- ELEC 4613 - Electric Drive Systems (Lectures, tutorials, and labs)
- ELEC 4123 - Electrical Design Proficiency (Lead lecturer)
- ELEC 9711 - Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Generation