Research Team

Lab Director:

Dr. Gregory Kish is the director of the PEPST Lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta. He received the B.E.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, where he was awarded the Governor General’s Silver Academic Medal, and received both his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto.

From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Kish worked in industry where he was involved in many projects related to electrical energy systems, ranging from PLCs, electric drives and rotating machines to high-voltage electrical substations.

Current Memberships and Service include:

Senior member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and IEEE Industrial Applications Society (IAS). Member of CIGRE.
Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics [2024-present] and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics [2025-present].
Chair of the PELS Chapter for IEEE Northern Canada Section [2025-present].
Faculty Advisor for the University of Alberta PES/IAS/PELS Student Branch Chapters [2025-present].
P.Eng. in Alberta and Ontario.

PhD Students:

Tharindu Senavirathna, Wael Telmesani, Haoran Wang, Sheron Bolonne, Bowei Li, Anjana Wijesekera

MSc Students:

Yimeng Chen, Dhanika Anupama, Imantha Meegasthanne

Post-Doctoral Fellows:

Xiaoting Wang

PEPST Lab Alumni:

2025: Nayanathara Widyalankara (MSc), now at Magna IV Engineering; Tharindu Senavirathna (MSc), now PhD student at UAlberta; Anushika Lakmini (MSc), now at Hatch

2024: Veenavi Pemachandra (MSc), now at POWER Engineers; Daniel Bowman (MSc), now at Manitoba Hydro

2022: Yuan Li (PhD), now at AltaLink; Shehan Herathge (MSc), now at CF Power Ltd.; Manish Persand (MSc), now at BBA Consultants

2021: Chatumal Perera (PhD), now at Celestica

2020: Abraham Rojas Tarango (MSc), now at Stantec Consulting

2019: Dalu (David) Liu (MSc), now at BC Hydro; Mohammadhadi Rouhani (MSc), now at Government of Alberta

2018: Sunny Kung (MSc), now at BBA Consultants; Moosa Moghimi Haji (PDF), now at Powertech Labs

BSc Students:

Rithvik Vinod Menon [June 2024-August 2024] - University of Alberta Co-Op

JT Luterbach [May 2024-August 2024] - Visiting researcher from UCalgary

Minhua Chen [September 2023-April 2024] - University of Alberta Dean's Research Award Recipient

Minhua Chen [May 2023-August 2023] - University of Alberta URI/FES Award Recipient

Mikael Schmidtke [January 2023-August 2023] - University of Alberta Co-Op

Benjamín Meyer [January 2022-May 2022] - ELAP Scholarship Recipient

Ruoqing Ni [July 2021-September 2021] - MITACS Globalink Internship Award Recipient

Rahul Raman [June 2021-August 2021] - MITACS Globalink Internship Award Recipient

Quin Greenaway [May 2021-August 2021] - University of Alberta Co-Op

Manavjeet Singh [September 2020-April 2021] - University of Alberta Dean's Research Award Recipient

Aishworya Roy [May 2019-July 2019] - MITACS Globalink Internship Award Recipient

Xinyi (Kyla) Wang [February 2019-May 2019] - Visiting undergraduate researcher from Tianjin University, China

Qingyang Cai [October 2018-April 2019] - University of Alberta Dean's Research Award Recipient

Ming Zhou [October 2018-April 2019] - University of Alberta Dean's Research Award Recipient

Xinyi (Kyla) Wang [July 2018-September 2018] - MITACS Globalink Internship Award Recipient

Manish Persand [May 2018-August 2018] - NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) Recipient

Mohammed Aloraynan [June 2017-September 2017] - MITACS Globalink Internship Award Recipient

Nicolas Faria [May 2017-August 2017] - NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) Recipient

Xian (Liam) Zhou [September 2016-April 2017] - University of Alberta Dean's Research Award Recipient

Peiqin (Falcon) Zhao [July 2016-September 2016] - Visiting undergraduate researcher from Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Yang Gao [May 2016-August 2016] - University of Alberta Co-Op

Changpeng Jiang [January 2016-April 2016] - University of Alberta Dean's Research Award Recipient

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