Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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
Abarzadeh, S. Peyghami, K. Al-Haddad, N. Weise, L. Chang, and F. Blaabjerg, 鈥淩eliability and performance improvement of puc converter using a new single-carrier sensor-less pwm method with pseudo reference functions,鈥� IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 6092鈥�6105, 2021.
T. Fard, Waqar Khan, J. He, N. Weise, and M. Abarzadeh, 鈥淔ast online diagnosis of open-circuit switching faults in flying capacitor multilevel inverters,鈥� Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 53鈥�62, 2020.
Abarzadeh, Waqar Khan, N. Weise, K. Al-Haddad, and A. M. EL-Refaie, 鈥淎 new configuration of modular multilevel converter based on parallel connection of 3l-anpc converters controlled by improved modulation method for 1mhz, 1mw ev charger,鈥� IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., 2020.
Baranwal, N. Weise, K. Basu, and N. Mohan, 鈥淎 bidirectional soft-switched dab based single stage three phase ac-dc converter for v2g application,鈥� IEEE Trans. Transport. Electrific., vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 186鈥�199, Mar. 2019.
Katebi, J. He, and N. Weise, 鈥淚nvestigation of fault tolerant capabilities in an advanced three-level active t-type converter,鈥� IEEE Trans. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 446鈥�457, Mar. 2019.
Honors and Awards
- 向日葵视频Teacher of the Year, 2019, IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Beta Omicron Chapter
