Mehdi Ferdowsi
Professor
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Missouri University of Science and Technology
United States of America
Biography
Mehdi Ferdowsi received the B.S. degree in electronics from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1996, the M.S. degree in electronics from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, in 2004. He is currently a Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA. His research interests include electric-drive vehicles, multi input power converters, multilevel power converters, and battery charge equalization. Dr. Ferdowsi received the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power. Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology 2004 M.Sc. Electrical Engineering Sharif University of Technology 1999 B.Sc. Electrical Engineering University of Tehran 1997
Research Interest
Modeling, analysis, design, and control of power electronic converters Integrated power converters and their industrial applications Digital control of power electronic converters and motor drives Adjustable speed drives Brushless DC (BLDC) and switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives
Publications
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M. Khazraei, H. Sepahvand, M. Ferdowsi, and K. Corzine, “Hysteresis based control of a single †phase multilevel flying capacitor active rectifier,†IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 154 †164, January 2013.
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R. Ahmadi, H. Zargarzadeh, M. Ferdowsi, “Nonlinear controller for power sharing in double†input H†bridge†based converters,†IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 2402â€2414, May 2013.
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L. Shi, B. Baddipadiga, M. Ferdowsi, and M. Crow, “Improving the dynamic response of a flying†capacitor three†level buck converter,†IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 2356†2365, May 2013.
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M. Khazraei and M. Ferdowsi, “Modeling and analysis of Projected Cross Point Control—a new current mode control approach,†IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, vol. 60, no. 8, pp.3272â€3282, August 2013.
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H. Sepahvand, J. Liao, and M. Ferdowsi, “Capacitor voltage regulation in single†dc†source cascaded H†bridge multilevel converters using phase†shift modulation,†IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics,vol.60,no.9,pp.3619â€3626, September 2013.
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H.Sepahvand,M.Khazraei,K.Corzine,andM.Ferdowsi,“Startâ€up procedure and switching losses reduction for a single†phase flying capacitor active rectifier,†IEEETrans. Industrial Electronics, vol. 60, no.9, pp. 3699†3710, September 2013.
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Z. Darabi and M. Ferdowsi, “An eventâ€based simulation framework to examine the response of power grid to the charging demand of plugâ€in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs),†IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 313â€322, February 2014.
