Current Research Group
- Present Post-docs
- Abhijit Kshirsagar; Now at Oak Ridge National Lab since mid-2019
- Siddharth Raju
- Sreekanth Thamballa
- Present PhD Students
|
No. |
Name |
Expected Graduation |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Anushree Ramanath |
2020 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed |
|
2 |
Vishnu Vipin |
2020 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed |
|
3 |
Manikanta Pallantla |
2021 |
PhD Qual Exam – passed |
|
4 |
Prince Kumar |
2020 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed |
|
5 |
Jeyaram Deivanayagam |
2021 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed |
|
6 |
Sanchit Misra |
2021 |
|
|
7 |
Visweshwar Chandrasekaran |
2021 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed Working full-time at Trane |
|
8 |
Sameer Shekhar |
2021 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed Working full-time at Intel |
|
9 |
Dan Kelley |
2022 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed |
|
10 |
Haven (Ian) Clark |
2022 |
PhD Qual Exam - passed |
Graduated Students
Total of 46 PhDs Graduated
|
No. |
Last Name |
First Name |
Year Graduated |
Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Otero |
Ruben |
2017 |
ABB |
|
2 |
Iyer |
Kartik |
2017 |
Tesla |
|
3 |
Krishnamoorthi |
Santhosh |
2017 |
Cummins |
|
4 |
Sahoo |
Ashish |
2016 |
Apple |
|
5 |
Gandikota |
Srikanth |
2016 |
Tesla |
|
6 |
Baranwal |
Rohit |
2016 |
MTS, Minneapolis |
|
7 |
Biswas |
Suvankar |
2016 |
EPC Systems |
|
8 |
Severson |
Eric |
2015 |
UW-Madison, was my post-doc for one year |
|
9 |
Tewari |
Saurabh |
2015 |
MTS Systems, Minneapolis |
|
10 |
Severson |
Eric |
2015 |
Post-Doc in our group |
|
11 |
Orser |
David |
Fall 2014 |
Colleague: Assistant Prof. (Teaching) |
|
12 |
Basu |
Kaushik |
Spring 2013 |
IISc-Bangalore (India) |
|
13 |
Castelino |
Gysler |
Spring 2013 |
DynaPower, Burlington (VT) |
|
14 |
Somani |
Apurva |
Spring 2013 |
DynaPower, Burlington (VT) |
|
15 |
Nath |
Shabari |
Spring 2012 |
IIT – Guwahati (India) |
|
16 |
Prasad |
Rashmi |
Spring 2011 |
GM - Detroit |
|
17 |
Shah |
Jalpa |
Spring 2011 |
Rockwell - Minneapolis |
|
18 |
Weise |
Nathan D |
Spring 2011 |
Marquette University -Milwaukee |
|
19 |
Ayana |
Elias |
Fall 2010 |
Cummins Generation -Minneapolis |
|
20 |
Gupta |
Ranjan |
Spring 2010 |
First Solar – New Jersey |
|
21 |
Krishnaswami |
Hariharan |
Spring 2009 |
Univ of Texas – San Antonio |
|
22 |
Jain |
Rinkle |
Fall 2007 |
Intel Corp – Hillsboro |
|
23 |
Joshi |
Nitin |
Fall 2007 |
GE – Schenectady, NY |
|
24 |
Thuta |
Satish |
Fall 2007 |
Tesla Motors – Palo Alto, CA |
|
25 |
Begalke |
Todd |
Spring 2006 |
Electric Machinery - Minneapolis |
|
26 |
Bhiwapurkar |
Nitin |
Spring 2006 |
Telco Motors – Pune, India |
|
27 |
Chakraborty |
Sombuddha |
Fall 2006 |
Texas Instruments – San Jose |
|
28 |
Brekken |
Ted K |
Summ 2005 |
Oregon State U – Corvallis, OR |
|
29 |
Rathi |
Manoj |
Fall 2005 |
Founded Research Center For Sustainable Solution– Nasik, India |
|
30 |
Jose |
Philip |
Fall 2004 |
Telco Motors, Pune - India |
|
31 |
Jain |
Amit Kumar |
Fall 2004 |
Intel Corp – Hillsboro |
|
32 |
Sree |
Hari |
Fall 2003 |
Medtronics - Minneapolis |
|
33 |
Tirumala |
Rohit |
Spring 2002 |
Micro Chip Tech, San Francisco |
|
34 |
Ayyanar |
Rajapandian |
Spring 2000 |
Arizona State Univ – Tempe, AZ |
|
35 |
Kamath |
Girish |
Spring 1998 |
Hypertherm, New Hampshire |
|
36 |
Imbertson |
Paul J |
Spring 1997 |
Colleague: Professor (Teaching) |
|
37 |
Moumneh |
Lana Chaar |
Spring 1996 |
GE – Dubai (UAE) |
|
38 |
Naik |
Rajendra |
Spring 1996 |
GE – Bangalore (India) |
|
39 |
Rastogi |
Mukul |
Spring 1996 |
ABB – Pittsburgh, PA |
|
40 |
Quinn |
Conor |
Spring 1992 |
Zytek - Minneapolis |
|
41 |
Daboussi |
Zaher |
Spring 1990 |
Mubadala – Abu Dhabi |
|
42 |
Dhaouadi |
Rached |
Fall 1990 |
American Univ of Sharjah - UAE |
|
43 |
He |
Jin |
Spring 1990 |
Founded own company – Dallas, TX |
|
44 |
Peterson |
Maximilian R |
Spring 1990 |
Law Offices of Maximilian Peterson |
|
45 |
Wong |
Cheuksun |
Spring 1990 |
Analog Power - San Francisco |
|
46 |
Henze |
Christopher |
Spring 1986 |
Founded Analog Power Design – Twin Cities |
- A total of 178 students including PhDs and Master’s (as research and academic advisor (from Linda Jagerson - Office of the Director of Graduate Studies in ECE)
- Students from NTNU - Norway. Advised Approximately 15 students from NTNU in Norway as a part of their 5-year degree plan – they received their degrees from NTNU; several of them supported by Fulbright Fellowship, Torske Klubben Fellowship, etc.
Post-Docs Mentored
In addition to three post-docs in 2019, mentored the following post-docs:
- Dr. Paul Imbertson,
- Dr. Dinkar Prasad,
- Dr. P. Subramanium,
- Dr. Simon Round,
- Dr. Amit Jain,
- Dr. Krushna Mohapatra,
- Dr. Ted Brekken,
- Dr. Amod Umarikar,
- Dr. Parag Upadhyay,
- Dr. Todd Begalke,
- Dr. Razvan Cristian Panaitescu
Visiting Professors Hosted
Hosted the following Visiting Professors since 1976:
- Professor Wang (Jilin Univ., China)
- Professor Tore Undeland (NTNU, Norway)
- Dr. Terje Gjengedal (NTNU, Norway)
- Dr. Odd Andersen (NTNU, Norway)
- Professor Robert Nilssen (NTNU, Norway)
- Professor Marion Kazmierkowski (Warsaw, Poland)
- Professor Richard Duke (Univ. of Canterbury, NZ)
- Professor Lars Norum (NTNU, Norway)
- Professor Ramzi Dib (Germany)
- Prof. Waldemar Sulkowski (Narvik University, Norway)