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

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

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

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

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

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

Saleh Farzamkia
farzam@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
- Grid-Integrated Renewable Energy Systems and Storage
- Distributed and Decentralized Control Systems
- Reliability Engineering and Fault Tolerance

Da Jiao

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

Rishab Anand

Emad Nazerian
nazerian@utexas.edu
Design and Development of High Power-Density Converters
Design and Analysis of Magnetic Components

Vishal Kumar Meena
vpiloda@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-DC-DC Converters

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

Halladi Shashwatha Kumara Kedlaya

Rahul Valecha
rahul.valecha@utexas.edu
Research interest: semiconductors and process technology
Master Students

Mack, Hunter M
huntermack13@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
- Energy storage applications (combining new and immersive technologies)

Zhiyuan Ma
zhiyuanma@utexas.edu
Research Interest:
-Wide-bandgap power semiconductor device

Joseph Moonnattum
Alumni

XiXi Luo, Ph.D.
Graduation time: December 2023

Zhicheng Guo, Ph.D.
Graduation time: March 2023
Arizona State University

Xiaoyi Yang, M. S.
Graduation time: May 2023
Enphase Energy

Bharath Kumar Rayachoty, M. S.
Graduation time: Apr 2023
Analog Devices

Weijung Hsu, M. S.
Graduation time: Apr 2023
Monolithic Power Systems

Wei Xu, Ph.D.
Graduation time: Apr 2023
Monolithic Power Systems

Fei Zhou
Graduation time: 2022

Yoon Sheen, M. S.
Graduation time: 2022

Rahul Choudhary, M. S.
Graduation time: Dec 2022
Enphase Energy

Qingxuan Ma, Ph.D.
Graduation time: Apr 2022
Infineon

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