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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Erick Aponte

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Spring, 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Next Generation EV Fast Charger - Develop a 10kV medium voltage direct connected, SiC based 350kW electrical vehicle fast charger.
Areas of Expertise: Electric vehicle, DC fast charger, device characterization, silicon carbide, power electronics

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

Tzu-Hsuan Cheng

School/year: North Carolina State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Summer 2022
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Concentration: Power IC Packaging
PowerAmerica Project: Development of 3.3 kV-capable, open-source, low cost packaging solution for SiC transistor and diode testing
Areas of Expertise: Power IC Packaging Design and Process Development, Mechanical Reliability, Failure Analysis, Heat Transfer, Finite Element Modeling

Andrew Galamb

School/year: North Carolina State University, Junior
Graduate/Undergraduate: Undergraduate
Graduation Date: Spring, 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Renewable Electric Energy Systems
PowerAmerica Project: Ecological Personal Rapid Transit (ecoPRT) - Designing, building and testing wireless charging systems for electric vehicles
Areas of Expertise: Power converters, solar energy, and wireless power transfer

Ankul Gupta

School/year: Arizona State University, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Looking for full-time position in Spring 2021
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Non-isolated high conversion ratio DC-DC converter with Zero Voltage Transition - Design and control of high conversion ratio non-isolated soft switching dc-dc boost converter for fuel cell application
Areas of Expertise: Power converter design for Electric vehicle, fuel cell and data center applications

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

Haichen Liu

School/year: University of North Carolina - Charlotte, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Fall 2022
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Modular Hybrid SiC and Si based Battery Inverter for Energy Storage Integration - Development of a 50kW Si and SiC hybrid switch based A-NPC inverter
Areas of Expertise: Power Converter Analysis, SiC MOSFETs, Thermal Simulation

Christopher New

School/year: The University of Alabama, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Fall, 2021
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: EMI Performance Optimization of Medium Voltage SiC Module - Perform detailed analysis of the common-mode (CM) and conducted EMI characteristics of a medium voltage SiC module in a neutral point clamped topology.
Areas of Expertise: Silicon Carbide Modeling and EMI Analysis

Tiancan Pang

School/year: University of North Carolina - Charlotte, Ph.D.
Graduate/Undergraduate: Graduate
Graduation Date: Fall, 2022
Major: Electrical Engineering
Concentration: Power Electronics
PowerAmerica Project: Introduction of WBG Devices for Solid-State Circuit Breaking at the Medium Voltage Level - Design, simulation, test the SiC based solid-state circuit breaker rated at 4160 V and 40 A.
Areas of Expertise: Renewable Energy Systems

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