Electrical and Computer Engineering

Optimal centralized and decentralized management strategies for electric vehicles considering customer demand, road and electric grid infrastructure

Doctoral Candidate Name: Mr. Ali Ihsan Aygun Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: November 4, 2022 – 9:00 AM Defense Location: EPIC 2354 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan Committee Members: Dr. Yogendra Kakad, Dr. Abasifreke Ebong, Dr. Srinivas Pulugurtha Abstract: The electrical grid is a complex network becoming increasingly linked with […]

AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH SINGLE FUNCTIONAL UNIT LEVEL INTEGRATION OF ELECTRONIC AND PHOTONIC ELEMENTS: DESIGN OF THE FET – LET HYBRID 6T SRAM AND THE ELEMENTS

Doctoral Candidate Name: Antardipan Pal Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: October 20, 2022 – 3:00 PM Defense Location: EPIC 2224 Committee chair’s Name: Yong Zhang Committee Members: Mohamad-Ali Hasan, Jeremy Holleman, Yasin Raja Abstract: Continuous scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor technology over the past few decades following Moore’s law has […]

POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PROTECTION METHODOLOGIES WITH INVERTER-BASED RESOURCES INTEGRATED MICROGRIDS

Doctoral Candidate Name: Bilkis Banu Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: October 31, 2022 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: ECGR 2354 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan and Dr. Michael Smith Committee Members: Dr. Valentina Cecchi and Dr. Churlzu Lim Abstract: This work presents new protection methods for addressing challenges related to […]

Realizing Combined Value Streams from Customer-Side Resources

Doctoral Candidate Name: Akintonde Abbas Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: October 5, 2022 – 2:30 PM Defense Location: EPIC 1332 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Badrul Chowdhury Committee Members: Dr. Valentina Cecchi, Dr. Peter Schwarz, Dr. Robert Cox Abstract: The importance of flexible customer-side resources in transitioning to a clean energy future […]

“Si IGBT and SiC MOSFET” Hybrid Switch for Voltage Source Converters

Doctoral Candidate Name: Haichen Liu Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: July 22, 2022 – 1:00 PM Defense Location: EPIC building 1332 Committee chair’s Name: Tiefu Zhao Committee Members: Robert Cox, Michael Mazzola, Shen-En Chen Abstract: The SiC devices have been a strong competitor than the conventional Si devices due to the […]

Ultra Low Power Techniques For Machine Learning on The Edge

Doctoral Candidate Name: Md Munir Hasan Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: July 25, 2022 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: EPIC building. Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Jeremy Holleman Committee Members: Abstract:

WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER FOR RAILWAY APPLICATIONS

Doctoral Candidate Name: Xiwen Xu Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: July 22, 2022 – 10:30 AM Defense Location: EPIC 1332 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Tiefu Zhao Committee Members: Dr. Robert Cox, Dr. Michael Mazzola, Dr. Shen-En Chen Abstract: The United States trains have the highest energy demands in rail transport in […]

ANALYSIS AND ENHANCEMENT OF RESOURCE-HUNGRY APPLICATIONS

Doctoral Candidate Name: siqi huang Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: April 7, 2022 – 9:00 PM Defense Location: Online Committee chair’s Name: Linda Xie Committee Members: Dr. Tao Han, Dr. Pu Wang, Dr. Aidong Lu Abstract: Resource-hungry applications play a very important role in people’s daily lives, such as real-time video […]

DATA-DRIVEN CONTROL AND OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION GRID WITH HIGH PENETRATION OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES (DERs) BASED ON SPECTRAL CLUSTERING

Doctoral Candidate Name: Shyamal Patel Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: April 7, 2022 – 12:30 PM Defense Location: EPIC 2354 Committee chair’s Name: Sukumar Kamalasadan Committee Members: Dr. Valentina Cecchi, Dr. Abasifreke Ebong, Dr. Vincent (Tobi) Ogunro Abstract: Motivated by the government’s clean energy targets, the penetration of Distributed Energy Resources […]

PV-Battery Series Integration for Residential Solar-plus-Storage Systems

Doctoral Candidate Name: Namwon Kim Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: April 7, 2022 – 12:00 PM Defense Location: EPIC 2344 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Babak Parkhideh Committee Members: Dr. Badrul Chowdhury, Dr. Robert Cox, Dr. Maciej Noras Abstract: Solar-plus-storage systems provide efficient energy yield and management, resilience, and more revenue to […]