Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Education
Ph.D., 2011, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
M.S., 2007, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S., 2005, Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Research Interests
- Power Electronics
- Power and Energy Conversion
- Electric Drives
- Vehicular Power Systems
- High Voltage Direct Current Converters
- Power Electronic Transformers
- Control of Renewable Energy Sources
- Control of Power Electronic Systems
Selected Recent Publications
M. Abarzadeh, S. Peyghami, K. Al-Haddad, N.Weise, L. Chang, and F. Blaabjerg, “Reliability and
performance improvement of puc converter using a new single-carrier sensor-less pwm method with
pseudo reference functions,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 6092–6105, 2021.
M. T. Fard, Waqar Khan, J. He, N. Weise, and M. Abarzadeh, “Fast online diagnosis of open-circuit
switching faults in flying capacitor multilevel inverters,” Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol. 6, 4, pp. 53–62, 2020.
M. Abarzadeh, Waqar Khan, N.Weise, K. Al-Haddad, and A. M. EL-Refaie, “A new configuration
of modular multilevel converter based on parallel connection of 3l-anpc converters controlled by
improved modulation method for 1mhz, 1mw ev charger,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., 2020.
R. Baranwal, N. Weise, K. Basu, and N. Mohan, “A bidirectional soft-switched dab based single
stage three phase ac-dc converter for v2g application,” IEEE Trans. Transport. Electrific., vol. 5, no 1, pp. 86–199, Mar. 2019.
R. Katebi, J. He, and N. Weise, “Investigation of fault tolerant capabilities in an advanced three-level
active t-type converter,” IEEE Trans. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 446–457,
Mar. 2019.
Honors and Awards
