Advanced Propulsion System
General Motors
30003 Fisher Brothers Rd, Warren, MI 48093, USA
Email: minh-khai.nguyen@gm.com
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
Doctor of Philosophy 2007 – 2010
Department of Electrical Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea
Thesis Title: “Single-Phase Z-Source Buck-Boost Matrix Converter and Its Applications”
Advisor: Prof Young-Cheol Lim
Master of Science 2005 – 2007
Department of Electrical Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea
Bachelor of Science 2000 – 2005
Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of
Technology, Vietnam
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Research Fellow 03/2019 – 02/2020
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of
Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Assistant Professor 2016 – 2019
Department of Electrical Engineering, Chosun University, South Korea
Lecturer 2013 – 2017
Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of
Technology and Education (HCMUTE), Vietnam
Lecturer 2010 – 2013
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Vietnam
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Scholar 07/2018 – 08/2018
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology,
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Visiting Researcher 01/2011, 07/2012,
Samsung Energy Research Centre, Chonnam National University, Korea. 08/2014, 02/2015
RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED UNDER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Grant by Chosun University ($40,700) 2016 – 2019
Project Title: High step-up DC-DC converters based on switched-capacitor
structure for PV applications
Grant by Vietnam Nat. Found. Sci. & Tech. Develop. (NAFOSTED) ($36,200) 2015 – 2017
Project Title: A study of second harmonic AC component effect to the switched
boost inverter
Grant by Vietnam Nat. Found. Sci. & Tech. Develop. (NAFOSTED) ($35,000) 2013 – 2015
Project Title: A study of resonant current suppression and reducing DC-link
voltage spike in the trans-Z-source inverter
Grant by Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education ($3,800) 2014 – 2015
Project Title: A study of switched-inductor boost inverter for renewable energy
applications
Grant by Ho Chi Minh City Depart. of Science & Technology ($4,800) 2012 – 2013
Project Title: A study of AC voltage compensator using AC-AC PWM converter
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Society Service
Program Committee at the 5th International Conference on Green 11/2019 - current
Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD 2020), Da Nang, Vietnam
Local chair at the IEEE PLES Workshop on Emerging Technologies: 01/2019 – current
Wireless Power, WoW 2020, Seoul, Korea
Guest editor in a special issue on “Power Converters in Power Electronics” of 12/2018 – current
Electronics journal
Associate editor of the Journal of Power Electronics 6/2018 – current
Associate editor of the International Journal of Power Electronics 6/2019 – current
Impedance Source Converters subcommittee under Power Electronics
Technical Committee (PETC) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 12/2017 – current
Guest Associate Editor in a special issue of the IEEE Transaction on Power
Electronics on Impedance Source Converter Topologies and Applications 02/2015 – 11/2016
Technical Program Committee Member and topic chair at ICPE 2019 – 10/2018 – 06/2019
ECCE Asia, Busan, South Korea
Technical Program Committee Member and section chair at 10/2017 – 05/2018
IPEC-Niigata 2018, Japan
Co-chair in the technical section at the IEEE International Symposium on 05/2013
Industrial Electronics, ISIE’13, Taipei, Taiwan
Reviewing Activity
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics 2010 – current
IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics 2010 – current
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 2015 – current
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics 2015 – current
IET Power Electronics 2011 – current
Journal of Power Electronics 2011 – current
Energies 2016 – current
Electronics 2017 – current
IEEE conferences: ISIE 2013, IECON 2017, IPEC 2018, PEAC 2018, IECON 2018, ICPE 2019
Professional Society Memberships
IEEE Senior Member 06/2018 – current
The Korean Institute of Power Electronics (KIPE) member 2007 – 2010
HONOURS, AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Top 1% Publons Peer Review Awards 2018 and 2019
Associate Fellowship Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Certificate of training program of Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) at Arizona State University, U.S.A, 2015
Student Award and Travel Grant from the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) in Seoul, Korea, 2009
Chonnam National University global scholarship recipient for both MS and Ph.D programs, Gwangju, South Korea, 2005-2010
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Courses
Power electronics, electrical and electronics principles, electrical power, electric driver, electrical measurement, CAD in electrical engineering, combinational and sequential logics.
Ph.D. Advisees
Van-Thuan Tran: Three-phase cascaded H-bridge quasi-switched boost inverter for renewable energy systems, 3rd year.
Duc-Tri Do: Fault tolerance three-level quasi-switched boost T-type inverter, 2nd year.
Tan-Tai Tran (co-advised with Prof. Young-Cheol Lim): Low-frequency ripple suppression in the single-phase impedance-source inverter, 2nd year.
Truong-Duy Duong (co-advised with Prof. Young-Cheol Lim): Switched-capacitor based high voltage gain DC-DC converters, 1st year.
M.S. Advisees
Tan-Tai Tran: Direct DC-link voltage control for the quasi-switched boost inverter, completed in 2016.
Nhat-Tan Cao: Quasi-switched boost network based isolated boost DC-DC converter, completed in 2016.
Hoan-Tien Luong: A single-phase five-level Z-source inverter, completed in 2016.
Bac-Bien Ngo: A single-phase switched-capacitor nine-level inverter, completed in 2017.
Thanh-Loi To: A dual boost inverter for open-end winding induction motor, completed in 2017.
Dai-Van Vo: A single-phase nine-level boost inverter, completed in 2017.
Trung-Hieu Nguyen: Reconfiguration of three-phase three-level T-type inverter under fault conditions, completed in 2018.
Truong-Duy Duong (co-advised with Young-Cheol Lim): Isolated high boost DC-DC converter based on current-fed topology, completed in 2018.
Bang Le: A Space-Vector Modulation Method for Impedance-Source Three-Level Inverter, completed in 2018.
Duy-Thien Tuong: A Space-Vector Modulation Method for Three-Phase Quasi-Switched Boost Inverter, completed in 2018.
Invited Lectures
Topic: “Advanced high boost DC-DC converter topologies”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea, 01/2019.
Topic: “Impedance-source converters”, Division of Electrical Engineering, Chonbuk National University, South Korea, 11/2018.
Topic: “Switched boost inverters versus Z-source inverters”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea, 12/2016.
Topic: “Isolated DC-DC converters based on switched boost network”, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea, 7/2015.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles: 46
Refereed conference papers: 29
H-index: 18 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C97yknsAAAAJ&hl=en)