Alumni

PhD

Name Graduation Year Thesis
Siamak Derakhshan 2025 Stacked-Switches Electrolytic Capacitor-less AC/DC Power Converters
Kajanan Kanathipan 2024 Modular Photovoltaic (PV) Step-up Converter With A Coupled Power Balancing Scheme for DC-Distributed System
Reza Emamalipour 2023 A Multi-Mode Stacked-Switch Inverter/Rectifier Leg for Bidirectional Power Converters
Sanjida Moury 2020 Soft-Switched Multi-Input Converter for Renewable Energy Systems
Mehdi Abbasi 2019 Soft-Switched Step-Up Medium Voltage  Power Converters

 

Master's

Name Graduation Year Thesis
Aref Molaei 2025 Single-Stage Interleaved Photovoltaic (PV) Step-up Resonant Converter Modules for Magnetron Application
Matthew Bakalian 2023 Step-Up Converter Interfaces for Magnetron Power Supply
Samira Ahmadiankalati 2020 A Mega-Hertz Micro Converter with Extended Soft Switching Operation for Photovoltaic (PV) Application
Kajanan Kanathipan 2019 A Soft-Switched, Single-Switch Electrolytic Capacitor-less Step-Up Converter for Photovoltaic Energy Application
Devina Aggarwal 2019 A Quasi-Resonant Bidirectional Converter with Soft-Switching Operation for Energy Storage Applications

 

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Jessica Buentipo (undergraduate researcher, summer 2023, Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award)
  • Maria Beshara  (undergraduate researcher, summer 2022, Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award)
  • Yiru Wang  (undergraduate researcher from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, summer - fall 2022, MITACS Globalink)
  • Yan Liu  (undergraduate researcher from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, summer - fall 2019, MITACS Globalink)
  • Theresa Nguyen  (undergraduate researcher, summer 2019, Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award)
  • Xingkai Wu (undergraduate researcher, 2017 - 2018)
  • Sara Malik (undergraduate researcher, summer 2016, awarded Dr. James Wu Research Internship)
  • Kajanan Kanathipan (undergraduate researcher, summer 2016, awarded  NSERC USRA)
  • Akhil Khurana (undergraduate researcher, summer 2015)