Green Energy and Transportation (GRENT) Lab

At GRENT, we conduct research on

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• Advanced/Intelligent Energy Management & Control in Renewable Energy & Electrified Transportation Systems

• Energy Storage Systems

• Wireless Power Transfer

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Principle Investigator: Dr. Mehdi Farasat

Education

 

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2014)

University of Nevada, Reno

Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Professor Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski (Life Fellow, IEEE)

 

Professional Experience

 

• Louisiana State University, Associate Professor (August 2020-Present)

• Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor (August 2014- May 2020)

• Johnson Controls Inc, York, PA, Power Electronics Group, Postgraduate Intern (Summer 2013)

 

Services

 

• ECE Graduate Studies Committee

• ECE Graduate Admissions Committee

• ECE Curriculum Committee

• CoE Academic Matters Committee

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

• Session Chair, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Expo (APEC).

• Track chair, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Expo (APEC).

• Panelist, Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) program, Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS), National Science Foundation.

• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program, Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation.

• Reviewer, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

 

Membership

 

• Senior Member, IEEE

• Member, Industrial Electronics Society (IES)

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Research group

 

Current members

1. Indra Bhogaraju, PhD student (Co-advised by Dr. Michael Malisoff).

2. Zakaria Afsharbakeshloo, PhD student

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Alumni

Junshuo Chen (PhD/Visiting scholar at GRENT from March 2018 to March 2019, lecturer at Chang'an University, China)

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Juan Nunez Forestieri (Ph.D. dissertation title: Intelligent data-driven energy flow controllers for renewable energy and electrified transportation systems, Degree awarded in 2020)

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Amir Masoud Bozorgi (Ph.D. dissertation title: Cost effective, highly efficient wireless power transfer systems for EV battery charging, Degree awarded in 2019)

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Abu Shahir Hasan (MS thesis title: Lyapunov function-based stabilizing control schemes for wireless power transfer systems with LCC compensation network, Degree awarded in 2021)

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Hunter DesRoches (MS project title: Simulation and implementing model predictive torque and current control scheme of induction motor drives, Degree awarded in 2021)
 

Rakshak Raveen (MS project title: Simulation and implementing efficiency improved direct torque control of EV induction motor drives, Degree awarded in 2020)

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Yi Qin (MS project title: Simulation and implementing field oriented and model predictive current control schemes for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives, Degree awarded in 2019)

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Juan Nunez Forestieri (MS thesis title: Real and Reactive Power Control of Induction Motor Drives, Degree awarded in 2016).

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Mohammad Imran Nasyam (MS project title: Indirect Quasi Z-Source Matrix Converter Based Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives, Degree awarded in 2015).

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Gowtham Harsha Pulikonda (MS project title: Efficiency Improved Model Predictive Torque Control of Induction Motor Drives, Degree awarded in 2015).