Dr. Ooi Chia Ai
Senior Lecturer
Prospective Students
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I am looking for prospective Master and PhD students to work on energy storage systems and related research fields such as power electronics converter and system control in renewable energy systems. I welcome discussions from prospective students and researchers interested in the related research fields. If you are interested and would like further information, please drop me an email at chia.ai@usm.my. Financial assistance is available for applications.
About Me
At a glance
Chia Ai Ooi received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, where she was one of the researchers on the Energy Storage for Low Carbon Grids project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK. She is a member of IEEE and a registered graduate engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She conducts research in the areas of energy storage, power electronics, renewable energy, energy management and power systems.
Research Experiences
2008-2010 ScienceFund Research Grant, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia (Completed)
Position: Project Leader
2010-2012 Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia (Completed)
Position: Project Leader
2012-2016 UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC): Energy Storage for Low Carbon Grids (Completed)
Position: Project Member
2016-2019 Short Term Grant Scheme, USM (Ongoing)
Position: Project Leader
A. B. Ahmad, C. A. Ooi, D. Ishak, J. Teh. “State-of-Charge Balancing Control for ON/OFF-line Internal Cells Using Hybrid Modular Multi-level Converter and Parallel Modular Dual L-Bridge in a Grid-scale Battery Energy Storage System,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 131 - 147, January 2019.
J. Teh, C. A. Ooi, Y. H. Cheng, M. A Zainuri, C. M. Lai “Composite Reliability Evaluation of Load Demand Side Management and Dynamic Thermal Rating Systems,” Energies, February 2018, 11, 466.
J. Teh, C. M. Lai, N. A. Muhamad, C. A. Ooi, Y. H. Cheng, M. A. Zainuri, M. K. Ishak “Prospects of using The Dynamic Thermal Rating System for Reliable Electrical Networks: A Review,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 26765-26778, April 2018.
C. A. Ooi, D. Rogers, N. Jenkins, “Balancing control for grid-scale battery energy storage system”, Proceedings of the ICE – Energy, vol. 168, no. 2, pp. 145–157, 2015.
C. A. Ooi, Efstratios Chatzinikolaou, D. Rogers, “Battery balancing utilising a full-bridge modular multilevel converter”, EPSRC Centre for Power Electronics Annual Conference, 29-30 June 2015, University of Nottingham.
C. A. Ooi, D. Rogers, N. Jenkins, “State of Charge Balancing Control for Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems Based on Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter”, UK Energy Storage Conference 2014, 25-27 November 2014, The University of Warwick.
C. A. Ooi, D. Rogers, N. Jenkins, “State of Charge Balancing Control of Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems using Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter”, 5th HVDC Colloquium, 9-11 July 2014, Imperial College London.
Ooi Chia Ai, Baharuddin M.Y, Sustainable Household Energy Saving Plan, 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Mechatronic Engineering (CIM09), Melaka, 2 -3 June, 2009.
