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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