With more than 30 PhD students and Postdocs, our team has successfully delivered 40+ industry sponsored projects and directly contributed to new products & features.

We are actively seeking industry partners to collaborate on :

- Motor Drives,

- Power Electronics Systems, 

- Power Semiconductors & Gate Drivers

- Sensors and AI Applications.

NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS:

Dissertation Awards:

.   Masoud Farhadi received Doctoral Dissertation Excellence Award , 24'
.   Bhanu Vankayalapati received David Daniel Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 22' - best disst. of Engineering  School.
.   Fei Yang is selected as IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Award Winner, 21'
    (5 students received world-wide, from: UTD, Virginia Tech, Aalborg Univ, U of Berkeley and U of Michigan)
.   S. Dusmez received David Daniel Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 16' - best disst. of Engineering School.

Publication Awards:

.   Prize Transaction Paper Award (1st Place), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 23'

.   Prize Transaction Paper Award (2nd Place), IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 23'
.   Prize Transaction Paper Award (2nd Place), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 20'
.   Prize Transaction Paper Award (1st Place), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 18'
.   Our research paper is selected as cover story of IEEE PE Magazine, June, 16'

.   Several Best Paper Awards from various conferences 

 Research and Teaching Awards:

.   I received Innovation Award from Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), 23'
.   I received Engineering School Faculty Research Award, 20' - Most productive Assc Prof within last 3 years in the entire Engineering School
.   I ve been selected as Co-Editor in Chief of IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology
.   I received Excellence in Teaching Award from Jonsson Engineering School, 19'
.   I received Top Editor Recognition Award from IEEE Transactions on VT , 18'
.   I received Outstanding Editor Award from IEEE Transactions on IAS - TSC, 17'
.   I've been selected as Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE VT Society, 16-18'
.   I received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 15'
.   I received Engineering School Faculty Research Award, 15'  - Most productive Asst Prof within last 3 years in the entire Engineering School

Positions Available for Graduate Students / Post Docs

We are looking for PhD students/Post Docs in Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems areas to pursue their degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering program at University of Texas, Dallas. 

The candidates will have priority if they have: 

1. Work or research experience in wide-bandgap power semiconductors, power electronics/systems.

2.  Work or research experience in motor drives design, control, fault diagnostic.
3. Hands-on lab experience, PCB design, microcontroller programming experience or Finite Element Modeling (FEM) .
4. Experience in applications of machine learning, control theory, estimation theory or signal processing to power electronics. 

Competitive graduate assistantships with full tuition waivers are available for qualified students. GRE and TOEFL scores are NOT mandotory.

Please contact Dr. Bilal Akin at bilal.akin@utdallas.edu with your resume. For more information about the graduate program at UTD ECE, please visit http://www.utdallas.edu/admissions/graduate/

RESEARCH AREAS:

. Fault Diagnosis & Condition Monitoring of Power Electronics Components and Drive Systems

. Control of Electric Motors & Drives, Self-Comissioning, Auto-Tuning and Sensorless Control of AC Drives

. Power Electronics, Digital Power Control and Management
. Applications of Control Theory, Machine Learning and Signal Processing to Energy Conversion Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
 
. University of Texas, Dallas (2012- present)   /    Electrical Engineering Department

. Texas Instruments (4.5 years)  /  C2000 Microcontrollers Group, Systems and Applications Engineer 

. Toshiba International Corporation (3 years)   /  Motor Drive Group, R&D Engineer

PUBLICATIONS:

- All publications

- Power Electronics Reliability, Control and Circuits Papers

- AC Drives & Motors Control and Condition Monitoring Papers

RESEARCH TEAM
 

-Aditya Pogulaguntla, PhD Candidate

-Akshay Deshmukh, PhD Candidate

-L. Emre Efe, PhD Candidate

-Mojtaba Afshar, PhD Candidate

-Mohammed Fahad, PhD Candidate

-Muhammed Ajmal, PhD Candidate

-Mustafa M Sezer, PhD Candidate

-Sherif Eissa, PhD Candidate

-Sritam Jena, PhD Candidate

-Rahman Sajadi, PhD Candidate

VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCH ASSC.

-Guoxin Zhao, Visiting Scholar, 20'

-Amir Parsapour, Research Assc, 19'

-Shuai Zhao, Visiting Scholar 18'

-Cheng Shu, Visiting Scholar 18'-19'

-Sejir Khojet ElKhil, Fullbright Scholar 17'

-Taner Goktas, Visiting Scholar, 14',16'

-Emine Bostanci, Research Assc., 16', 17'

-Hakan Akca, Visiting Scholar, 16'

-Shashkanka Doddomani, Research Assc.15'-16'

-Harsh Vardhan, Research Assc., 14'-16'

-Bashir Ebrahimi, Visiting Scholar, 14'

PhD ALUMNI

-Masoud Farhadi, PhD 23'              Texas Instruments

-Chen Li, PhD 22'                            Texas Instruments

-Bhanu Vankayalapati, PhD 22'      Texas Instruments

-Saurabh Kumar, PhD 22'               Halliburton

-Kudra Baruti, PhD 21'                    Nidec 

-Chi Xu, PhD 21'                             Texas Instruments

-Shi Pu, PhD , 21'                            Micron  

-Vignesh Gurusamy, PhD 21          Comsol

-Fei Yang, PhD 20',                         Texas Instruments

-Enes Ugur, PhD 19',                      Wolfspeed/Cree

-Feyzullah Erturk, PhD 19',             Eaton

-Yuan Qi, PhD 18',                          Halliburton

-Syed Huzaif Ali, PhD 18',              BorgWarner

-Mohsen Zafarani, PhD 18',           ASML

-Manish Bhardwaj, PhD 18',          Tesla

-Zhuangyao Tang, PhD 17',           Texas Instruments

-Serkan Dusmez, PhD 16',            Texas Instruments

-Xiong Li, PhD 15',                         Google

MSc ALUMNI   

-Nathan Zhang, 21',                        ABB

-Rahul Kaushik, 14',                       Qorvo Inc.