Ronggang Ni was born in Daqing, China in 1987. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2010, 2012 and 2017, respectively, all in electrical engineering.

From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting scholar at Aalborg University, Denmark. In 2017, he was with the Shanghai STEP Electric Corporation, Shanghai, China. From 2018, he has been with Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, and currently a full professor and the vice dean of the School of Electrical Engineering.

Prof. Ni is a senior member of IEEE, the leader of Shandong Provincial Innovation Team on new energy transportation and electric drive, and the Chief Expert of Qingdao Expert Workstation on permanent magnet motor control. He is also PI of several projects granted by NSFC and Shandong Province.

Prof. Ni has authored more than 30 technical papers, and holds 10 patents. He delivered 6 tutorials or invited speeches on academic and industrial conferences.

His research interests include electric machine topology, design and drive for electrified transportation and special robot.