RONG Mingzhe (M'98) was born in Shanxi Province,China, in 1963. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering,Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 1984 and 1990, respectively.He is currently with the State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi'an Jiaotong University.He has been involved in arc physics, electrical contact theory,in