Dr. Mehdi Abbasi received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, in 2011. He completed his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from York University, Toronto, ON, Canada in 2019. He is the author of more than 20 IEEE journal and conference publications. Since May 2018, he has been actively contributing to research and development in SiC-based step-up converters at Northern Transformer Corp., ON, Canada. His research interests include high-frequency high-gain converters for renewable energy systems, soft-switched wide-bandgap based power converters and advanced control techniques.
Dr. Abbasi is a member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), and a frequent reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE PELS sponsored conferences. He was the recipient of the 2016 Lassonde's Carswell Scholarship. He also received the Student Travel Awards at the 2016 and 2017 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE); as well as the 2018 and 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).
Dr. Reza Emam-Alipour (S’19–M’22) received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2015 and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2022.
From 2011 to 2017, he was a Research Associate with the Automotive Technology Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Since 2022, he has been with Murata Power Solutions, Markham, ON, Canada, where he is currently a power electronics designer engaged in the analysis, design and development of high-power onboard chargers and high-power-factor converters for automotive and energy storage applications. He is also a Visiting Researcher with the Power Electronics Laboratory for Sustainable Energy Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada where he is working on the design and development of bidirectional DC/DC and AC/DC converters.
He has authored or coauthored more than 20 IEEE journal and conference publications. His research interests include design and control of switching mode power supplies and power electronic converters for renewable energy and energy storage systems, and soft-switched wide-gain bidirectional resonant converters. Dr. Emam-Alipour is a member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), and a frequent reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Access and IET Power Electronics.
