Welcome to the website for the Medium Voltage Power Lab (MVP). Our research work is primarily in the area of power electronics with a current focus on applications including hybrid ac-dc grids and next-generation electric mobility. This site provides information on recent activity, current openings, research team, publications and courses taught. Dr. Gray's contact information can be found at the bottom of this page.
Some relevant external links:
Gray's UCalgary Profile Page: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/philippe-gray
Gray's UCalgary Supervisor Page: https://grad.ucalgary.ca/future-students/supervisor/phillippe-gray
Gray's Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qzRgtlsAAAAJ
Gray's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippegray/
[May-22-2025] MVP Lab graduate students, Flavio Ramos and Matteo Sposito were awarded the Schulich's Graduate Co-Instructor Award and Schulich's Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, respectively. Congratulations!
[May-5-2025] Matin Nabizadeh and Khai Huynh have joined the research group for Summer 2025.
[May-5-2025] JT Luterbach joins us at the MVP Lab today as incoming MSc student. JT completed his B.Sc. from the University of Calgary.
Nov-3-6-2024] Two papers were presented at IECON 2024 by the research group:
[Oct-20-24-2024] At ECCE 2024, Dr. Gray chaired the session titled "Topology of Multi-level Converters" at ECCE 2024 and his journal paper in collaboration with the University of Toronto was presented by Noah Hosein:
"A Bidirectional Current-Fed Isolated MMC With Partial Soft-Switching for High Step Ratio DC–DC Applications"
[Sept-1-2024] Flavio Alegretti Ramos joins us at the MVP Lab today as an incoming MSc student. He completed his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (USP).
[June-10-2024] Ms. Ka Wing Kwan joins us at the HyPES Lab today as an incoming PhD student. She will be working on solid state transformer related research. She was previously at UBC (MEng) and the City University of Hong Kong (BEng).
[Dec-16/17-2023] Dr. Gray will be giving an invited talk at the 2nd International Conference on Power, Energy and Cybernetics (ICPEC 2024) held in Hai Duong, Vietnam.
[Nov-17-2023] Dr. Gray gave a technical talk at the University of Alberta on some of the recent Current Shaping MMC (CS-MMC) developments.
[Oct-11-2023] Dr. Gray presented our UCalgary reach team's proposal at the ERDC Launch event for CFREF Electrifying Society in Montreal, QC.
[Aug-01-2023] Dr. Gray started his appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Calgary.
[May-22/25-2023] Bidirectional CS-MMCs was presented at ICPE 2023-ECCE Asia in Jeju, Korea.
