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Ph.D Students

Mahshid

Mahshid Amirabadi recieved her B.Sc degree in Electronics Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran in 2002 and her M.Sc degree in Electrical Power Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran, in 2006 respectively. In January 2008 she joined Ph.D program of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M university, where she is now working on High frequency AC link converters.

She has published more than 10 papers in the areas of power electronics and renewable energies. Her research interests include control of power electronics circuits, AC link converters for photo-voltaic and wind energy applications, low voltage ride through of wind turbine driven DFIGs, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), and fuel cell-connected converters for electrical machines.
Khaled Khaled Ali Al Jaafari was born in Al Ain, UAE and received his B.SC. and M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from The Petroleum Institute(PI), Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 2006 and 2011. Khalid worked for two years in ZADCO as an Electrical Engineer at the upper Zakum Oil field, where he was part of the maintenance team. After that, he decided to rejoin the academia sector, and was accepted in The Petroleum Institute as a fellowship research and teaching assistant. He is now pursuing an PhD degree at Texas A&M University. His research interests include power system analysis, power system protection and power quality studies.
Matthew

Matthew Johnson received his BS degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2011. During his time as an undergraduate student he completed multiple internships with L3-Communications, Raytheon, and Knowledge Based Systems Incorporated. In August 2011 he began working towards a Ph.D in electrical engineering at Texas A&M University. Matthew’s research interests include control systems for power electronic circuits and electric machines, power converter design, and hybrid electric vehicles.
Mamidreza

Hamidreza Keyhani received his B.Sc. degree from University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran in 2001 and M.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2004, both in Electrical Engineering. He then worked in industry for more than 7 years and designed several industrial power electronic based circuits and systems. He is now working towards his Ph.D. degree in Texas A&M University, where he is working on soft-switched high-frequency link DC/AC and AC/AC converters. His research interests include modeling, design and control of power electronic systems such as power converters, switching power supplies, uninterruptible power supplies and also design, modeling and digital control of motor drives.
Vivek

Vivek M. Sundaram received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India in 2008 and his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2011. Since Summer 2011 he has been working on his PhD at Texas A&M University. His research interests include electric machines and power electronics for renewable energy applications.
Jay-B

Jae-Bum Park received his B.Sc degree in electrical engineering in 2002 and his M.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from the ECL(Energy Conversion Laboratory) at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 2005. His M.Sc thesis topic was Single Phase Switched Reluctance Motor Optimum Design Using Response Surface Methodology and Finite Element Method.

During his time as a graduate student, he completed an internship which focused on a control system of PM Linear machines for the baggage claim at Nuremberg Airport with SIEMENS AG in Erlangen, Germany. Then he joined Motor Lab. in LG Components R&D Center, Korea as a research engineer in 2004. He has worked on machine design and control drives for ODD and EV applications. He has published 2 journal papers, 7 conference papers, and 2 magazine articles in the area of machine design and power electronics. He also has 8 Korean domestic patents.

In August 2010, he began working towards a Ph.D in electrical engineering at Texas A&M University. Jae-Bum’s research interests include machine design (such as IPM, SPM, PMa-SynRM, SRM, IM, and BF-SRM) and DSP based control drives (power converters & inverters) for HEV and EV. He is currently working on IPM & BF-SRM design for green car applications and rectifier circuit for portable 3kW PM Generator.
Kadir

Abdulkadir Bostanci received both his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in electrical engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006 and 2008 respectively. He is now pursuing the Ph.D program of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Steven

Steven Campbell received his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering in from Texas A&M University in 2002. He is now working on his Ph.D dissertation whose topic is Design and performance evaluation of a Homopolar Switched Reluctance Motor.

His research interests include design and control of electromagnetic machines, power electronics, electromechanical energy conversion,  electronics, and electric machines for harsh enviroment duty. Steven has worked with Southwest Research Institute, Texas Instruments, Anteon Corporation, and is presently the owner and Principal of Spiretronic LLC, a consulting and product development company that he has started in 2006.

Yateendra

Yateendra Deshpande recieved his B.Tech and M.Tech Degrees from IIT Madras in 2007. He worked with TVS Motor Co., India in motor design and control for two years. Since Fall 2009, he is pursuing PhD at Texas A&M University. His research interests include electrical machine design, modeling and control. He is currently working on Optimal control of PMASynRG.Visit Yateendra here.

Babak

Babak Farhangi received both the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from University of Tehran, Iran in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree at Texas A&M University. His  research interests include power electronics and its applications in Power Systems, industrial electronics, photovoltaic, power converter design, and power conditioning of renewable energy resources. His dissertation topic is about portable energy storage systems for plug-in Hybrid Vehicles.

Prior joining Electrical Machines & Power Electronics Laboratory at Texas A&M University Babak had been involved in several industrial projects as a Researcher at EEtrex Company, Boulder CO., Power System Automation Laboratory of Texas A&M University, and Industrial Electronics Laboratory of University of Tehran. See CV.

Behrooz

Behrooz Nikbakhtian obtained his B.Sc and M.Sc degree in Electrical Control Engineering from Khajeh-Nasir Tousi Univeristy, Tehran, Iran in 1995 and 1998 respectively. He is now working towards his Ph.D degree in Texas A&M Univeristy, where he is working on Analytical modeling and optimization of permanent magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance machines (PMASynRM). His research interests include design, modeling, and control of electrical machines and power electronics.

Siavash

Siavash Pakdelian received his B.Sc degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2003, and M.Sc degree from University of Tehran, Iran in 2006 both in Electrical Power Engineering. He has started his Ph.D program in Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M Univeristy since Fall 2009, where he is working on Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Generators. His research interests include fault diagnosis of electrical drives, and design of permanent magnet synchronous generators for wind energy conversion applications.

Robert

Robert Vartanian received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran, in 1999 and 2001 respectively. Then he joined Electric Power Technology Development Center (MATN) as a research engineer. From Fall 2007 he's started his PhD program at electrical and computer engineering department of Texas A&M Universit. He is now working on permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance machines. His research interests include advanced machine design, power electronics, DSP based electric machine control, and hybrid electric vehicles.

 

M.Sc Students

Esra

Esra Ozkentli received her B.S. degree from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2008. During her education in Istanbul, she fulfilled 3 internships; one in Siemens-Turkey in 2006, one in Schneider Electric-Turkey in 2007, and the last in Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) in 2007. She has improved herself in power engineering which encompasses her main interest. She was an honor student during her education and graduated with honors. As a professional, she worked for the company AnelTech, in Turkey as a business development engineer. She has equipped herself with knowledge on renewable technologies especially solar energies and its applications. She represented the aforementioned company in solar energy related associations. She received a scholarship from Turkish Petroleum Corporation for acquiring a Master’s degree in electrical engineering which she is currently pursuing at Texas A&M University.
Hussain

Hussain Hussain received his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Kuwait University in 2007. Then he joined Kuwait National Petroleum Company as an Electrical Design Engineer. In 2010, he started pursuing his M.Sc degree at Texas A&M University. His research interests include control of multiphase machines. He is currently working on shaft voltages and bearing currents in five phase induction motors.

 

Visiting Scholars

  • Dr. Yuttana Kumsuwan, Oct. 2007-Present, Chiangmai University, Thailand.
  • Dr. Jung-chul Kim, 2006-Present, Dongyang Mirae University, Korea.
  • Prof. Oh Yang, March 2006-March 2007, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Chongju University, Korea.
  • Dr. Nam-Hun Kim, Sep. 2004-July 2007, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Korea.
  • Reginaldo Sousa Miranda, Sep. 2006-Dec. 2006, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil.
  • Euzeli Cipriano dos Santos Junior, Sep. 2006-March 2007, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil.
  • Isaac Soares de Freitas, Sep. 2006-August 2007, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil.
  • Dr. Chang-Ho Choi, June 2003-July 2006, POSCON ICT, Korea.
  • Prof. Chang Seop Koh, February 2003-May 2004, Chungbuk National University, Korea.
  • Prof. Houcine Zeroug, October 1, 2002-February 2004, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, U.S.H.B, Algiers, Algeria, Fulbright Scholar.
  • Prof. Seok-Kwon Jeong, March 2001-February 2003, School of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, Korea.
  • Dr. Syed Mohammad Madani, October 2000-January 2003, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University, Netherlands.
  • Mr. Sergio Cruz, September 2002- January 2003, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal.
  • Mr. Karim Abbaszadeh, January 2002-December 2003, Department of Electrical Engineering, Amir-Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
  • Prof. Haithem Abu-Rub, January 2001- December 2001, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bir Zeit University, West Bank, Israel, Fulbright Scholar.
  • Prof. Mohab Hallouda, July 2000-September 2000, Department of Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.
  • Dr. Ali S. Ba-thunya, Feb. 2000-December 2001, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Aden, Yemen.
  • Prof. Kexin Wei, July 2000-Present, Tianjin Professional College, China.
  • Dr. Jin Hur, July 1999-September 2000, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Korea.
  • Mr. Homayoun K. Meshgin, January 2000-August 2001, Department of Electrical Engineering, Amir-Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

 
 
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