PowerAmerica-Affiliated Students

Through its member universities, PowerAmerica is affiliated with a talented pool of undergraduate and graduate students who represent the best and brightest of the future power electronics workforce. These students, who already work with wide bandgap applications, are available for internships and employment. Please contact them directly.

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Muhammad Abdelraziq

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Fall 2025
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: 1) 6.78-MHz, 200-W GaN-Based Class E and EF Inverters for Wireless Power Mats with Enhanced Load and Reactance Range Employing a Nonlinear Shunt Capacitor/ 2) 95~170 kHz, 300-W GaN-Based LLC Converter with a Power Factor Correction Unit for Electric Wheelchair Battery Charging Applications
Areas of Expertise: Power Electronics, High-Frequency Resonant Power Converters, Wireless Power Transfer System for Drone Charging Applications, and Optimization of the Performance Indices of Power Electronic Converters

Yuling Cao

School/year: Virginia Tech, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: 2024
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: High Density Bidirectional Dc-Dc Charger for Hybrid Electric Propulsion System - A 18kW High Density Bidirectional SiC/GaN based Soft-switched Dc-Dc Charger for Hybrid Electric Propulsion System
Areas of Expertise: DC/DC Converter Design

Ritvik Chattopadhyay

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: 2023
Major: Electrical Engineering
PowerAmerica Project: Electromagnetic and thermal design of high power and torque density slotless traction machine (>100 kW, >50 kW/L)
Areas of Expertise: Electric machine design and optimization, electromagnetic finite element analysis, thermal finite element analysis and CFD simulations of electric motors, electric vehicle system modeling and simulation

David Jojo Dadzie

School/year: North Carolina State University, Graduate
Graduation Date: Fall 2025
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics and Microgrid Control
Areas of Expertise: Design of fast charging stations, electric vehicles, power electronics, microgrid control, renewable energy systems

Xia Du

School/year: University of Arkansas, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Summer 2024
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Active Gate Driving for High Voltage Power Modules with Paralleling Operation, A four-port bidirectional DC-DC converter for renewable energy system and microgrid
Areas of Expertise: Megahertz Current Sensors for Switching Current Measurement, Active Gate Driver Design, Wide Bandgap Devices, Multi-port DC-DC Converter Design

Md Mohaiminul Haque

School/year: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Fall 2026
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Cryogenic Temperature Behavior for WBG devices
Areas of Expertise: Cryogenic Testing, Cryogenic Temperature Behavior for WBG devices, SiC and GaN device characterization, Power Electronics Design.

Pedram Chavoshipour Heris

School/year: University of Arkansas, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Summer 2024
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Design and optimization of high-frequency DC-DC converters, Magnetics design, GaN devices applications, Hardware design, Modulation and control of Isolated and non-isolated, High-frequency soft-switched unidirectional/bidirectional/multiport DC-DC converter topologies for electrical vehicle/data center/aerospace/space applications.
Areas of Expertise: Isolated/non-isolated high-frequency DC-DC converters; Design and optimization of high-frequency transformers

Jack Knoll

School/year: Virginia Tech, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Spring 2025
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics Packaging
PowerAmerica Project: PCB-embedded 1.2 kV SiC MOSFET half-bridge package for a 22 kW on-board charger; 1.2 kV SiC MOSFET full-bridge power module with integrated gate driver and coupled inductor; characterization of 4.5 kV charge-balanced SiC MOSFETs; a low thermal resistance package for a Ga2O3 Schottky diode; evaluation of methods to improve the case-to-board thermal resistances of surface mount SiC MOSFETs.
Areas of Expertise: Power semiconductor packaging design, fabrication, and testing; power semiconductor characterization; junction-to-case thermal resistance measurement

Raj Kokkonda

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Spring 2023
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Shore-to-Ship MV SiC Converter System enabled by series-connected 3.3kV SiC MOSFETs
Areas of Expertise: Switching cell design, Converter hardware design, Device characterization

Nithin Kolli

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Spring 2023
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Medium Voltage Grid-Connected Converters
PowerAmerica Project: Asynchronous Microgrid Power Conditioning System
Areas of Expertise: Design of Power Electronics Converters, Protection of WBG based SSTs

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