Faculty and Staff
Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, SPEC Director, IEEE Fellow
aqhuang@utexas.edu
512-232-1645(Pickle Campus)
512-232-6647(Main Campus)
Ph.D. Students
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
PENG HAN, Graduate Student
patrickhan@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
High power density and high-efficiency converters
heydari@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-PV Micro Inverters
-High Power Density High-Efficiency Power Electronics
Saleh Farzamkia, Graduate Student
farzam@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-Multilevel Converters
-Reliability Engineering
-Fault-Tolerance
Mafu Zhang, Graduate Student
mafuzhang@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-High Power Density High-Efficiency Power Electronics
-Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Power Electronics
Fei Zhou
oscarzhou@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
- High power density and high-efficiency converters
- Wide-bandgap semiconductor devices
Yoon Sheen
s.yoonsheen@utexas.edu
Research interests:
- DC-DC converters
- Wide bandgap semiconductor devices
Chen Chen
chenchen@utexas.edu
Research interests:
- Medium Voltage High Power Inverter
- High Power and High-Efficiency Converters
Huanghaohe Zou
hzou@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
- Medium Voltage High Power Converters
- Wide Bandgap High-Frequency Power Electronics
Rahul Choudhary
rahulchoudhary@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
- Multilevel inverters
- DC-DC converters
- PV systems
Bharath Kumar Rayachoty
bharathkumarrayachoty@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
- High power-density DC-DC converters
- Battery Management Systems
Alumni
Qingxuan Ma, Ph.D.
Graduation time: Apr 2022
GaN Systems Inc.
Tianxiang Chen, Ph.D.
Graduation time: Apr 2022
NVIDIA Corporation
Jackie Pang, M. S.
Graduation time: December 2021
Texas Instruments
Jin Gao, M. S.
Graduation time: December 2021
Maxim Integrated
Pengkun Liu, Ph.D.
Graduation time: July 2021
Texas Instruments
Soumik Sen, Ph.D.
Graduation time: June 2021
Tesla
Atsushi Shimbori, Ph.D.
Graduation time: November 2020
Ford Motor Company
Ao Sun, M. S.
Graduation time: May 2020
Monolithic Power Systems
Liqi Zhang, Ph.D.
Graduation time: June 2020
Hitachi Energy
Xin Zhao, Ph.D.
Graduation time: Apr 2020
Monolithic Power Systems
Hanning Tang, Ph.D.
Graduation time: November 2019
SharkNinja
Yang Lei, Ph.D.
Graduation time: August 2019
Dell
Qingyun Huang, Ph.D.
Graduation time: August 2018
University of Missouri