The past, present and future trends of Qi

Dr Xun (Ken) Liu & Dr Toine Staring

ConvenientPower Systems & Philips Research

Dr. Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong in 2007. He joined ConvenientPower (HK) Ltd in Hong Kong in 2007 as Technology Manager. He is responsible for research, innovation and standardization of wireless power technology platform. From December 2008 to June 2013, he was also the Vice-Chair of Low Power Work Group and Medium Power Work Group in the Wireless Power Consortium which published ‘Qi’, the global wireless power standard in August 2010. The world first Qi-compliant product which was certified in September 2010 was designed and produced by ConvenientPower (HK) Ltd in which he is currently the Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Liu received 2009 IEEE Power Electronics Society Transaction Prize Paper Award for his publication on Optimal Design of a Hybrid Winding Structure for Planar Contactless Battery Charging Platform, and is the inventor/co-inventor of 16 issued patents.

Dr. Toine Staring received his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He joined Philips Research in 1990 as a Research Scientist where he has been involved in studies of single-electron effects in GaAs/AlGaAsnanostructuresm, multi-wavelength semiconductor lasers, copy protection systems for optical discs, and wireless power transfer systems. From 2008 he has been active as the lead technical editor and architect of the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi Specification. From 2013 he has taken up the same role in the WPC’s development of a cordless kitchen specification. Moreover, he has served as specifications editor for the Zhaga and MD-SIG consortia between 2010 and 2016. In his career, he has been awarded over 40 patents and published several papers in journals and conferences.