Principle Investigator: Dr. Mehdi Farasat
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2014)
University of Nevada, Reno
Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Professor Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski (Life Fellow, IEEE)
Louisiana State University, Associate Professor (August 2020-Present)
Holder of Entergy Louisiana Professorship in Power Engineering
Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor (August 2014- May 2020)
Johnson Controls Inc, York, PA, Power Electronics Group, Postgraduate Intern (Summer 2013)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
Track Vice Chair, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
Track Chair, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Expo (APEC)
1. Mohammad Hosseini, PhD student
2. Azin Atarodi, PhD student
Junshuo Chen (PhD/Visiting scholar at GRENT from March 2018 to March 2019, lecturer at Chang'an University, China)
Zakaria Afshar (Ph.D. dissertation title: Participation of battery energy storage systems in load frequency control of power systems, Degree awarded in 2025)
Indra Bhogaraju (Ph.D. dissertation title: Stabilizing control schemes for grid-connected hybrid PV-energy storage systems, Degree awarded in 2023)
Juan Nunez Forestieri (Ph.D. dissertation title: Intelligent data-driven energy flow controllers for renewable energy and electrified transportation systems, Degree awarded in 2020)
Amir Masoud Bozorgi (Ph.D. dissertation title: Cost effective, highly efficient wireless power transfer systems for EV battery charging, Degree awarded in 2019)
Abu Shahir Hasan (MS thesis title: Lyapunov function-based stabilizing control schemes for wireless power transfer systems with LCC compensation network, Degree awarded in 2021)
Hunter DesRoches (MS project title: Simulation and implementing model predictive torque and current control scheme of induction motor drives, Degree awarded in 2021)
Rakshak Raveen (MS project title: Simulation and implementing efficiency improved direct torque control of EV induction motor drives, Degree awarded in 2020)
Yi Qin (MS project title: Simulation and implementing field oriented and model predictive current control schemes for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives, Degree awarded in 2019)
Juan Nunez Forestieri (MS thesis title: Real and Reactive Power Control of Induction Motor Drives, Degree awarded in 2016)
Mohammad Imran Nasyam (MS project title: Indirect Quasi Z-Source Matrix Converter Based Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives, Degree awarded in 2015)
Gowtham Harsha Pulikonda (MS project title: Efficiency Improved Model Predictive Torque Control of Induction Motor Drives, Degree awarded in 2015).