Bingnan Wang

  • Biography

    Bingnan's doctoral work focused on the study of wave propagation in novel electromagnetic materials, including photonic crystals and meta-materials. His research interests include electromagnetics and photonics, and their applications to communications, imaging, and energy systems.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  EVENT    Prof. Yuejie Chi of Carnegie Mellon University to Deliver Keynote at MERL's Virtual Open House
      Date & Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2023; 3:00-3:40pm (EST)
      Location: Virtual Event
      Speaker: Prof. Yuejie Chi, Carnegie Mellon University
      MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
      Brief
      • MERL is excited to announce the featured keynote speaker for our Virtual Open House 2023: Prof. Yuejie Chi from Carnegie Mellon University.

        Our virtual open house this year will take place on November 15, 2023, 1:00pm - 5:30pm (EST). Prof. Chi’s talk is scheduled for 3:00-3:40pm (EST). For details and agenda of the event, please visit: https://merl.com/events/voh23

        Join us to learn more about who we are, what we do, and discuss our internship, post-doc, and full-time employment opportunities. To register, go to: https://mailchi.mp/merl/voh23


        Title: Sample Complexity of Q-learning: from Single-agent to Federated Learning

        Abstract: Q-learning, which seeks to learn the optimal Q-function of a Markov decision process (MDP) in a model-free fashion, lies at the heart of reinforcement learning practices. However, theoretical understandings on its non-asymptotic sample complexity remain unsatisfactory, despite significant recent efforts. In this talk, we first show a tight sample complexity bound of Q-learning in the single-agent setting, together with a matching lower bound to establish its minimax sub-optimality. We then show how federated versions of Q-learning allow collaborative learning using data collected by multiple agents without central sharing, where an importance averaging scheme is introduced to unveil the blessing of heterogeneity.
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    •  EVENT    MERL's Virtual Open House 2023
      Date & Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2023; 1:00 - 5:30 EST
      Location: Virtual Event
      MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
      Brief
      • Join us for MERL's Virtual Open House (VOH) 2023 on November 15th. Live sessions will be held from 1:00-5:30pm EST, including an overview of recent activities by our research groups, a featured guest speaker and live interaction with our research staff through the Gather platform. Registered attendees will be able to browse our virtual booths at their convenience and connect with our research staff to learn about engagement opportunities, including internship/post-doc openings as well as visiting faculty positions.

        For agenda and details of the event: https://www.merl.com/events/voh23

        To register for the VOH, go to:
        https://mailchi.mp/merl/voh23
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  • Awards

    •  AWARD    Best Paper Award at SDEMPED 2023
      Date: August 30, 2023
      Awarded to: Bingnan Wang, Hiroshi Inoue, and Makoto Kanemaru
      MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
      Research Areas: Applied Physics, Data Analytics, Multi-Physical Modeling
      Brief
      • MERL and Mitsubishi Electric's paper titled “Motor Eccentricity Fault Detection: Physics-Based and Data-Driven Approaches” was awarded one of three best paper awards at the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED 2023). MERL Senior Principal Research Scientist Bingnan Wang presented the paper and received the award at the symposium. Co-authors of the paper include Mitsubishi Electric researchers Hiroshi Inoue and Makoto Kanemaru.

        SDEMPED was established as the only international symposium entirely devoted to the diagnostics of electrical machines, power electronics and drives. It is now a regular biennial event. The 14th version, SDEMPED 2023 was held in Chania, Greece from August 28th to 31st, 2023.
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  • Internships with Bingnan

    • EA2050: Electric Motor Design and Electromagnetic Analysis

      MERL is seeing a motivated and qualified individual to conduct research on electric motor design and modeling, with a strong focus on electromagnetic analysis. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students with solid background and publication record in one more research area on electric machines: electric and magnetic modeling, new machine design and prototyping, harmonic analysis, fault detection, and predictive maintenance. Research experiences on modeling and analysis of electric machines and fault diagnosis are required. Hands-on experience with new motor design and data analysis techniques are highly desirable. Start date for this internship is flexible and the duration is 3-6 months.

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  • MERL Publications

    •  Xu, Y., Wang, B., Sakamoto, Y., Yamamoto, T., Nishimura, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., "Electric Machine Inverse Design with Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE)", IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), October 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-134 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Xu2023nov,
      • author = {Xu, Yihao and Wang, Bingnan and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Nishimura, Yuki and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye},
      • title = {Electric Machine Inverse Design with Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE)},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = oct,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-134}
      • }
    •  Stein, A., Wang, Y., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., Fang, H., "Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator", arXiv, DOI: 10.48550/​arXiv.2310.03132, October 2023.
      BibTeX arXiv
      • @article{Stein2023oct,
      • author = {Stein, Adrian and Wang, Yebin and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan and Fang, Huazhen},
      • title = {Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator},
      • journal = {arXiv},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = oct,
      • doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2310.03132},
      • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03132}
      • }
    •  Wang, B., Zhang, S., Inoue, H., Kanemaru, M., "Semi-Supervised Machine Learning for Motor Eccentricity Fault Diagnosis", Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, September 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-117 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Wang2023sep,
      • author = {Wang, Bingnan and Zhang, Shen and Inoue, Hiroshi and Kanemaru, Makoto},
      • title = {Semi-Supervised Machine Learning for Motor Eccentricity Fault Diagnosis},
      • booktitle = {Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-117}
      • }
    •  Wang, B., Inoue, H., Kanemaru, M., "Motor Eccentricity Fault Detection: Physics-Based and Data-Driven Approaches", IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED), August 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-107 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Wang2023aug,
      • author = {Wang, Bingnan and Inoue, Hiroshi and Kanemaru, Makoto},
      • title = {Motor Eccentricity Fault Detection: Physics-Based and Data-Driven Approaches},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED)},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = aug,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-107}
      • }
    •  Xu, Y., Wang, B., Sakamoto, Y., Yamamoto, T., Nishimura, Y., "Comparison of Learning-based Surrogate Models for Electric Motors", Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), May 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-042 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Xu2023may,
      • author = {Xu, Yihao and Wang, Bingnan and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Nishimura, Yuki},
      • title = {Comparison of Learning-based Surrogate Models for Electric Motors},
      • booktitle = {Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG)},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-042}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "System and Method for Detecting a Fault of an Operation of a Synchronous Motor"
      Inventors: Lin, Chungwei; Wang, Bingnan; Nabi, Saleh
      Patent No.: 11,683,000
      Issue Date: Jun 20, 2023
    • Title: "Motor Designs having Spline Structure Connecting Motor shaft and Stator Structure"
      Inventors: Wang, Hongyu; Zhou, Lei; Wang, Bingnan
      Patent No.: 11,539,251
      Issue Date: Dec 27, 2022
    • Title: "Multi-Layer Axial and Radial flux Vernier Permanent Magnet Motor"
      Inventors: Zhou, Lei; Wang, Bingnan; Lin, Chungwei; Liu, Dehong; Wang, Yebin; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 11,502,564
      Issue Date: Nov 15, 2022
    • Title: "Electric Machine with Combined Axial- and Radial-Flux"
      Inventors: Zhou, Lei; Wang, Bingnan; Wang, Hongyu
      Patent No.: 11,482,894
      Issue Date: Oct 25, 2022
    • Title: "Method for Static Eccentricity Fault Detection of Induction Motors"
      Inventors: Zhou, Lei; Wang, Bingnan; Lin, Chungwei
      Patent No.: 11,411,521
      Issue Date: Aug 9, 2022
    • Title: "Modeling Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Considering Permeability of Rotor"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Shin, Kyung-Hun
      Patent No.: 11,366,944
      Issue Date: Jun 21, 2022
    • Title: "System and Method for Estimating Temperature and Heat Loss in Electric Motors"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Wang, Yebin; Ma, Tong; Lin, Chungwei; Komatsu, Taiga
      Patent No.: 11,293,986
      Issue Date: Apr 5, 2022
    • Title: "Method for Estimating Bearing Fault Severity for Induction Motors"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Zhang, Shen; Kanemaru, Makoto; Lin, Chungwei; Liu, Dehong; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 11,099,101
      Issue Date: Aug 24, 2021
    • Title: "RAIL STATE MONITORING APPARATUS"
      Inventors: Tsujita, Wataru; MAKINO, Kenzo; Wang, Bingnan; TAKAMI, Atsushi
      Patent No.: 11001282
      Issue Date: May 11, 2021
    • Title: "Optical Waveguide Interferometer"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Wang, Bingnan; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Nishikawa, Satoshi; Akiyama, Koichi; Yagyu, Eiji; Shinohara, Kosuke
      Patent No.: 10,996,400
      Issue Date: May 4, 2021
    • Title: "Systems and Methods for On-Orbit Fabrication of Structures by 3D Printing"
      Inventors: Yerazunis, William S.; Weiss, Avishai; Wang, Bingnan
      Patent No.: 10,906,290
      Issue Date: Feb 2, 2021
    • Title: "Negative Electroluminescent Cooling Device"
      Inventors: Lin, Chungwei; Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 10,840,163
      Issue Date: Nov 17, 2020
    • Title: "Thermal Emitter for Energy Conversion Technical Field"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Lin, Chungwei; Wang, Jianjian; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 10,797,633
      Issue Date: Oct 6, 2020
    • Title: "Methods and Systems for Terahertz-Based Positioning"
      Inventors: Wang, Pu; Fu, Haoyu; Orlik, Philip V.; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Ma, Rui; Wang, Bingnan
      Patent No.: 10,795,151
      Issue Date: Oct 6, 2020
    • Title: "Near-Field Based Thermoradiative Device"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Lin, Chungwei; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 10,658,968
      Issue Date: May 19, 2020
    • Title: "Thermophotovoltaic Energy Converter"
      Inventors: Lin, Chungwei; Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 10,497,821
      Issue Date: Dec 3, 2019
    • Title: "Polarization-Dependent Position Encoder"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Tsujita, Wataru; Sadamoto, Kota; Sawa, Yoshitsugu
      Patent No.: 10,451,447
      Issue Date: Oct 22, 2019
    • Title: "Contactless Sensor"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo; Orlik, Philip V.
      Patent No.: 10,288,759
      Issue Date: May 14, 2019
    • Title: "Digital Beamforming Transmitter Array System with Hardware Sharing and Reduction"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Peng, Zhengyu; Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Wang, Pu; Ma, Rui; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 10,270,510
      Issue Date: Apr 23, 2019
    • Title: "Compact Photonic Devices"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Teng, Min; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Wang, Bingnan
      Patent No.: 10,234,627
      Issue Date: Mar 19, 2019
    • Title: "Beamforming Transmission with Analog Hardware Resource Sharing"
      Inventors: Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Peng, Zhengyu; Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 10,218,550
      Issue Date: Feb 26, 2019
    • Title: "Photonic Integrated Circuit"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Nishikawa, Satoshi; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Wang, Bingnan; Yagyu, Eiji
      Patent No.: 10,120,132
      Issue Date: Nov 6, 2018
    • Title: "Artificial Magnetic Structures for Wireless Power Transfer"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Yerazunis, William S.; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 9,842,685
      Issue Date: Dec 12, 2017
    • Title: "System and Method for Manipulating Polarizations of Optical Signal"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Felicetti, Manuela; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Wang, Bingnan; Nishikawa, Satoshi; Yagyu, Eiji
      Patent No.: 9,557,485
      Issue Date: Jan 31, 2017
    • Title: "Wireless Energy Transfer with Negative Index Material"
      Inventors: Teo, Koon Hoo; Huang, Da; Wang, Bingnan
      Patent No.: 9,461,505
      Issue Date: Oct 4, 2016
    • Title: "System and Method for Automatically Optimizing Wireless Power"
      Inventors: Yerazunis, William S.; Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo; Duan, Chunjie; Barnwell, III, John C.; Burns, Dan J
      Patent No.: 9,281,875
      Issue Date: Mar 8, 2016
    • Title: "Proximity Sensor Detecting Metallic and Non-Metallic Objects"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Long, Jiang; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 9,274,075
      Issue Date: Mar 1, 2016
    • Title: "Mode-Evolution Compound Converter"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Wang, Bingnan; Yuan, Wangqing; Yagyu, Eiji
      Patent No.: 9,128,242
      Issue Date: Sep 8, 2015
    • Title: "Multi-Mode Interference Device"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Ozbayat, Selman; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Wang, Bingnan; Nishikawa, Satoshi; Yagyu, Eiji
      Patent No.: 9,116,298
      Issue Date: Aug 25, 2015
    • Title: "Multi-Mode Interference Device"
      Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Wang, Bingnan; Nishikawa, Satoshi; Yagyu, Eiji
      Patent No.: 9,097,852
      Issue Date: Aug 4, 2015
    • Title: "Compound Optical Combiner"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Wang, Bingnan; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Nishikawa, Satoshi; Yagyu, Eiji
      Patent No.: 9,052,461
      Issue Date: Jun 9, 2015
    • Title: "Multi-Mode Interference Manipulator"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Wang, Bingnan; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Yuan, Wangqing; Nishikawa, Satoshi
      Patent No.: 8,942,517
      Issue Date: Jan 27, 2015
    • Title: "Wireless Energy Transfer Using Array of Resonant Objects"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 8,890,366
      Issue Date: Nov 18, 2014
    • Title: "System and Method for Analyzing Spiral Resonators"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo; Ellstein, David
      Patent No.: 8,831,917
      Issue Date: Sep 9, 2014
    • Title: "Wireless Energy Transfer with Anisotropic Metamaterials"
      Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Huang, Da; Teo, Koon Hoo
      Patent No.: 8,786,135
      Issue Date: Jul 22, 2014
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