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Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, SPEC Director, IEEE Fellow

aqhuang@utexas.edu
512-232-1645(Pickle Campus)
512-232-6647(Main Campus)

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Dr. Ruiyang (Ryan) Yu, Research Scientist, Ph.D.

ryanyu@utexas.edu

Dr. Qingyun Huang, Research Associate, Ph.D

qyhuang@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-High efficiency and high density power electronics converter topologies
-Wide-band-gap devices' applications
-System modeling and digital control applied to power electronics

Ph.D. Students

Qingxuan Ma, Ph.D. Candidate

qxma@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-Wide-band-gap high frequency AC-DC Converter
-Power Semiconductor Device Characterization

Tianxiang Chen, Ph.D. Candidate

txchen@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-Wide-bandgap high-frequency high-density AC-DC converter and DC-DC converter
-Magnetic and thermal optimization for high-frequency power converter

Junhong Tong, Graduate Student

jredtong@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-Wide-bandgap power semiconductor device

XiXi Luo, Graduate Student

xixiluo@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-Wide-bandgap semiconductor devices

Wei Xu, Graduate Student

wei.xu@utexas.edu.
Research Interest:
-Medium Voltage High Power Converters
-Renewable Energy and Smart Grid
-Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductor Devices

Zhicheng Guo, Graduate Student

zcguo@utexas.edu
Research interests:
-Wide-bandgap high-frequency high-density DC-DC converter
-Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC)

Houshang Salimian, Graduate Student

salimian@utexas.edu
Research interests:
-Multilevel Converters
-Renewable Energy Systems

Zibo Chen, Graduate Student

zibochen@utexas.edu
Research interests:
- Wide-band-gap High-Density Rectifier
- Medium Voltage High Power Inverter
- Renewable Energy Systems and Smart Grid

Adithyan Vetrivelan, Graduate Student

adithyan.vetrivelan@utexas.edu
Research interests:
- High density power electronics
- WBG devices & High frequency converters
- Digital control of power electronics

Sanjay Rajendran, Graduate Student

sanjayrajendran@utexas.edu
Research interests:
- Medium Voltage High Power Converters
- Renewable Energy Systems
- EV/PHEV Drives

MJ Heydari, Graduate Student

heydari@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-High Power Density High-Efficiency Power Electronics
- PV Micro-inverters

Saleh Farzamkia, Graduate Student

farzam@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-Multilevel Converters
-Reliability Engineering
-Fault-Tolerance

PENG HAN, Graduate Student

patrickhan@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
High power density and high-efficiency converters

Mafu Zhang, Graduate Student

mafuzhang@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-High Power Density High-Efficiency Power Electronics
-Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Power Electronics