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)
Dr. Ruiyang (Ryan) Yu, Research Scientist, Ph.D.
Dr. Qingyun Huang, Post Doctoral Researcher, 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
Master Students
Jackie Pang
jackiedapang@utexas.edu
Research interests:
- Current Source Inverter using wide-bandgap devices
- Nonlinear Control for parallel converters
Jin Gao
jingao@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
- DC-DC Converters
- Current Source Inverter
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
Alumni
Pengkun Liu, Ph.D.
Graduation time: July 2021
Soumik Sen, Ph.D.
Graduation time: June 2021
Atsushi Shimbori, Ph.D.
Graduation time: November 2020
Ao Sun, M. S.
Graduation time: May 2021
Liqi Zhang, Ph.D.
Graduation time: June 2020
Xin Zhao, Ph.D.
Graduation time: Apr 2020
Hanning Tang, Ph.D.
Graduation time: November 2019
Yang Lei, Ph.D.
Graduation time: August 2019