Electrical Engineering

Research Interests

• Power Sector Regulation
• Training and Capacity Building
• Policy & Finance
• Renewable Energy Policy & Regulation
• Load Forecasting
• Tariff design & working models
• Power Purchase Agreements
• Energy Pricing
• Energy Access
• Standard of Performance and Safety Standards

Research Interests

• Tunable diode laser spectroscopy for gas parameter measurement
• Optical physical and chemical sensing

Research Interests

• Therapeutic ultrasound
• Nonlinear imaging
• Ultrasound contrast agents
• Ultrasound-assisted drug delivery
• Intravascular imaging and therapy
• Medical device development

Research Interests

• Characterization of III-V based Quantum Dot based devices.
• Theoretical simulation of In(Ga)As/GaAs based quantum dot heterostructures for optoelectronic devices.
• Study of wide band gap (WBG) based
  nanostructures.

Research Interests

• Approximate computing
• Low power SRAM
• Radiation hardened systems
• Asynchronous design

Research Interests

• Solid state sensors for odor, color and chemical profiling for (NZ) food and wine industry
• Use of high‐temperature superconductors in transformers and rotating electrical machines
• Surface electromyography
• Renewable energy
• Electric vehicles
• Development of Cu metallization for DSICs
• Development of 3‐dimensional interconnects
• Cu/low‐k interconnect technology for DSICs
• Studies of Cu contamination effects on reliability of CMOS devices
• Reliability studies of different kinds of solid state devices and ICs as well as reliability modeling
• Development of process technology for Silicon ICs, III‐V HEMTs, HBTs and MMICs
• Infra‐red photo detectors on Mercury Cadmium Telluride

Research Interests

• Dynamic systems
• Control systems
• Smart manufacturing
• Laser based manufacturing
• Mechatronics
• Robotics

Research Interests

• Restructured power systems - operation and management
• Smart distribution grid and microgrids
• Grid integration of decentralized energy resources and energy management
• Load demand and electricity price forecasting

Research Interests

• Nano-scale devices physics
• Device and circuit interaction in advanced devices
• Reliability of semiconductor devices
• Compact modeling
• Computational lithography
• Analog IC design

Research Interests

• Active Noise Control
• Adaptive Signal Processing
• Assistive Listening Devices
• Psychoacoustics

Research Interests

• Smart power electronics: design & development of hardware, AI, IoT
• Photovoltaic power conversion: faults & shade-tolerant control
• Transportation electrification: fast EV chargers, battery lifetime extension
• Green energy storage: data-driven modeling & system integration
• Net zero transition: multi-energy optimization
  

Recent News:

• Call for Researchers
• Accepted Paper in IEEE PEDES Dec. 2022: "Data-driven Modeling of Li-ion Battery based on the Manufacturer Specifications and Laboratory Measurements", by Roberta Di Fonso, Carlo Cecati, Remus Teodorescu, Daniel-Ioan Stroe and Pallavi Bharadwaj.

Research Interests

• Drives for electric vehicles
• Diagnostic testing and condition monitoring of transformers
• Active power filter

Research Interests

• High speed packaging machines - VFFS and HFFS technologies
• Liquid packing machines - high speed applications
• CO2 laser - metal processing applications
• Control strategies for robots moving a very flexible structure

Research Interests

• Computational photonics
• Nanophotonics
• Silicon photonics
• Nanoelectronics
• High performance computing
• Deep learning for science and engineering

Research Interests

• Computational Electromagnetics
• Antenna design and development for microwave active and passive sensors and Wireless Communication

Research Interests

• Computer Vision
• Deep Learning
• Computational Photography
• Machine Learning
• Computer Graphics

Research Interests

• Technological progress and human values
• Semiconductor devices
• Transducers and instrumentation
• Noise
• Engineering education

Research Interests

• Benchmarking of beyond CMOS materials and devices using multi-scale approaches.
• Modeling and simulation of advanced nanoscale devices
• Material-Device-Circuit co-design for alternative computing paradigms.

Research Interests

• Virtual Reality based Human Computer Interaction used in affective computing.
• Eye Tracking and Physiology based modeling techniques.
• Human Robot Interaction used in cognitive studies.
• Adaptive Intelligent techniques in cognitive research.
• Robot assisted surgical techniques.