Power Electronics and Applications Research Lab

LAB DIRECTOR

Prof. Josep Pou

S2-B2a-06
Nanyang Technological University,
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
Email: j.pou@ntu.edu.sg

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Biography:

Josep Pou received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)-Barcelona Tech. He was the top student in the Bachelor graduating class, received the Master Degree with first-class honours, and was awarded the Extraordinary Ph.D. Thesis Award at UPC.

In 1990, he joined the faculty of UPC as an Assistant Professor, where he became an Associate Professor in 1993. From 2003 to 2007, he was Director of the Power Quality and Renewable Energy (QuPER) group, and from 2007 to 2013 he was Director of the Terrassa Industrial Electronics Group (TIEG), both research groups at UPC. From February 2013 to August 2016, he was a Full Professor with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. In UNSW, he was technical research stream leader for the Solar Flagships Program Research Agenda, the result of AU$19-million investment from the Commonwealth Government of Australia in world class laboratories developed to study solar power conversion and its impact on the grid. He is currently a Professor with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he is Program Director of Renewables’ Integration and Microgrids (Power Electronics) at the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N), and Director of the Power Electronics and Applications Research Lab at NTU (PEARL@NTU). He is also co-Director of the Rolls-Royce @ NTU corporate lab, a SG$88-million investment from IAF, Rolls-Royce and NTU to perform research on future transportation and other research topics of interest to Rolls-Royce. As part of the Rolls-Royce @ NTU corporate lab, he is co-Director of the Power Systems Integration Lab at NTU (EPSIL@N) with focus on more electrical aircraft (MEA) and hybrid propulsion developments.

He spent two sabbatical years (2001 and 2005) as a Visiting Professor at the Center for Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech, USA, and one year (2012) at the Australian Energy Research Institute (AERI), UNSW, Sydney. He has authored over 360 published technical papers, is a co-inventor of 7 patents, and has been involved in several industrial projects and educational programs in the fields of power electronics and systems. He has authored two book chapters. He has received 6 scholarship and fellowship awards, including the prestigious Endeavour Research Fellowship Award, sponsored by the Australian Government.

He is IEEE Fellow. Since 2016, he has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He was co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2018-2020), and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2014-2018). He was Invited Editor of the Special Section on “Modular Multilevel Converters” for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and Invited Editor of the Special Section on “Hybrid Multilevel Converters” for the IET Power Electronics.

He was the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems given by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. In 2019, he received a Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution as co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics.

LAB CO-DIRECTOR

Biography:

Glen G. Farivar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Nooshirvani Institute of Technology, Babol, Iran, in 2008, the M.Sc degree in power electronics from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2011, and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of NSW Australia, Syndey, Australia in 2016. He is currently working as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological Institute (ERI@N), Singapore. His research interests include renewable energy systems, high power convertors, energy storage, FACTS devices, and hybrid electric vehicles.

Present Research Fellows

RESEARCH FELLOW

Dr. Naga Brahmendra Yadav Gorla

Email: naga.gorla@ntu.edu.sg

 

Biography:

Naga Brahmendra Yadav Gorla (Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, in 2010, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2019.

He was with the Electrical and Electronics Department, Singapore Polytechnic, as a Research Engineer between October 2013 and December 2015. Since April 2019, he has been a Research Fellow with the Sembcorp-NUS Corporate Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore. His research interests include power quality improvements in grid-connected inverters and rectifiers, fault detection and localization in multilevel and multiphase converters, and fault tolerance and resilience in grid-connected systems.

 

 

 

Research fellow (2021-Present)

Neha Beniwal

Ph.D. Student

Email: neha.beniwal@ntu.edu.sg

Biography:

Neha Beniwal (Student Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, in 2014, and the M.Tech. degree in power electronics, electrical machines, and drives from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, India, in 2017.

She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree with the Energy Research Institute at NTU and the Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include multilevel converters, renewable energy, microgrid, power quality, electrical machines, and drives. Ms. Beniwal was the recipient of POSOCO Power System Awards (PPSA) awarded by Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. (POSOCO) in association with Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FIIT), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2018, and the Prof. A.K. Sinha Cash Prize and IEEE-PEDES’96 Award at the Annual Convocation of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2017.

 

 

 

Research fellow (2021-Present)

Ezequiel Rodriguez Ramos

Email: ezequiel.rr@ntu.edu.sg

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Biography:

Ezequiel Rodriguez(S’18) was born in Tarragona, Spain, in 1994. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering and Technology of Electronic Systems (with first class honours for both B.S. and M.S., topping the 2012 and 2016 graduating cohort as valedictorian) from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain, in 2016 and 2017 respectively. He has just submitted his Ph.D. thesis to the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

He is currently working as a post-doctoral research associate at the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N), Singapore. His research interests include modelling and the control of power electronic converters, with an emphasis on modular multilevel cascade converters for energy storage and FACTS applications.

 

 

 

Past Research Fellows

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Biography:

Salvador Ceballos received the M.S. degree in physics from the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in 2002 and 2008, respectively.

Since 2002, he has been with Tecnalia Research and Innovation, where he is currently a Researcher with the Energy and Environment Division. From May 2008 to May 2009, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Hydraulic and Maritime Research Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. From November 2014 to May 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Australian Energy Research Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has authored more than 130 published technical papers. His research interests include multilevel converters, fault-tolerant power electronic topologies, and renewable energy systems.

RESEARCH FELLOW (2017-2020)

 

Biography:

Hossein Dehghani Tafti received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and power system engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2018.

From January 2018 to April 2020, he was a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, where he was working on the control of photovoltaic systems for grid support. From May 2020 to May 2021, he was a senior research associate with the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he worked on modelling and testing of commercial photovoltaic inverters. He is currently a research fellow at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA. He was the Co-Editor of the book titled Advanced Multilevel Converters and Applications in Grid Integration, published by John Wiley in 2018. His research interest includes the grid-integration of renewable energy sources, in particular, photovoltaics and energy storage and design and control of multilevel power converters.

Ph.D. Students

PhD Student (2017-Present)

 

Biography:

Devinda Molligoda (S’17) received the B.Sc (Hons) in Electronics and Telecommunication and the M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Automation from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2009 and 2014 respectively, and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore.

From 2009 to 2014 he was an Electronic Design Engineer at GSI Application Development (Pvt.) Ltd., Sri Lanka before joining the RollsRoyce@NTU Corporate Lab, Singapore in 2015 as a Research Engineer. His research interests include three-phase power converters for high-power-density applications, their modulation, control and more electrical aircraft.

PhD Student (2018-Present)

 

Biography:

Gaowen Liang received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and automation from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2018. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interest includes the grid-integration of energy storage systems with multilevel power converters, in particular, modular multilevel converters and cascaded H-bridge converters.

PhD Student (2019-Present)

 

Biography:

Aditi Narang completed her Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Thapar University, India in 2017. She graduated with MSc. in Power Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2019 and is currently working towards her Ph.D. degree from NTU. Her research interests include power electronics, solar energy, interconnection of PV power plants with the grid, and energy storage. She is a student member of IEEE PES and an active member and volunteer in IEEE Women in Engineering (WiE) Singapore chapter.

PhD Student (2019-Present)

 

Biography:

Qingxiang Liu (S’20) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2018, and the M.Sc. degree in power electronics from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore in 2019.

He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Energy Research Institute@NTU, Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore. His research interests include modulation and control of power converters, multilevel converters, FACTS devices.

PhD Student (2019-Present)

 

Marwaha Mridul

Email: mridul004@e.ntu.edu.sg

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Biography:

Mridul Marwaha received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Thapar University, India, in 2018. He is currently working towards Ph.D. Degree with School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include solid state power controllers, wide bandgap semiconductors, more electric aircraft, fault isolation in dc microgrids.

PhD Student (2020-Present)

 

Biography:

He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2020, where he is currently pursuing towards his Ph.D. degree. His research interests include renewable energy systems, energy storage, and dc microgrid.

PhD Student (2021-Present)

 

Anusha Kumaresan

Email: anusha010@e.ntu.edu.sg

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Biography:

Anusha Kumaresan received the B.E. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2018, and the M.Tech. degree in power electronics from National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, UT of Puducherry, India, in 2020. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree with the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N), Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

From August 2019 to February 2020, she was a visiting student at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. Her research interests include power control strategy in photovoltaic systems, electrical machines, and drives.

Graduated Ph.D. students

Ph.D. Student (2017-2021)

Neha Beniwal

Ph.D. Student

Email: neha.beniwal@ntu.edu.sg

Biography:

Naga Brahmendra Yadav Gorla (Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, in 2010, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2019.

He was with the Electrical and Electronics Department, Singapore Polytechnic, as a Research Engineer between October 2013 and December 2015. Since April 2019, he has been a Research Fellow with the Sembcorp-NUS Corporate Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore. His research interests include power quality improvements in grid-connected inverters and rectifiers, fault detection and localization in multilevel and multiphase converters, and fault tolerance and resilience in grid-connected systems.

 

 

 

Ph.D. Student (2017-2021)

Ezequiel Rodriguez Ramos

Email: ezequiel.rr@ntu.edu.sg

Researchgate

Biography:

Ezequiel Rodriguez(S’18) was born in Tarragona, Spain, in 1994. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering and Technology of Electronic Systems (with first class honours for both B.S. and M.S., topping the 2012 and 2016 graduating cohort as valedictorian) from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain, in 2016 and 2017 respectively. He has just submitted his Ph.D. thesis to the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

He is currently working as a post-doctoral research associate at the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N), Singapore. His research interests include modelling and the control of power electronic converters, with an emphasis on modular multilevel cascade converters for energy storage and FACTS applications.

 

 

 

M.Sc. Student

M.Sc. Student (Graduated)

 

JIANG ZHUOLIN

Email: zjiang006@e.ntu.edu.sg