IEEE Spectrum Webinar: Power Electronics for Smart Grid
25/09/12 14:01
I am participating in the following IEEE spectrum webinar on power electronics for smart grid applications. My talk is focussed on high-power bi-directional dc-dc converter design and co-simulation for electric vehicles. Thanks to Mazhar, Andishe and Christo for preparing the material.
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Read More...ECCE-USA
15/09/12 09:45
Shuze is in Raleigh, USA, to present his work on LED drivers at the Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition.
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Read More...EPE-EMC ECCE-Europe Conference
04/09/12 09:43
Shawkat and I are in Novi Sad, Serbia, to present our work on power management for concentrating PV systems at the Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference and Exposition.
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Read More...NI Week 2012
09/08/12 12:45
I'm giving an invited talk on power electronics for electric vehicles at Nantional Instruments Week (NI Week) 2012. Check out the Energy Summit talks
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Read More...Jordan and Matt take 3rd Place in the Texas Instruments Analog Design Competition
01/08/12 13:59
Congratulations to Jordan Varley and Matthew Martino, who received 3rd place out of 150 teams in the North American Engibous Design Summit Analog Design Competition. The award want handed out at the Texas Instruments headquarters in Dallas. Jordan and Matt designed a complete Wireless Sensor Node, with power management for a hybrid energy storage system, consisting of an ultra-capacitor and a Lithium Ion battery. The team's project also received the departmental Gordon Slemmon Award at UofT in 2012. The work will be presented at IECON 2012 in Montréal.
Past winners can be see here.
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Past winners can be see here.
Read More...CanSIA Solar Ontario
10/05/12 11:29
I will be part of a panel discussion at the CanSIA Solar Ontario conference on tuesday May 15.
Conference agenda.
Breakout- : 3:45pm-4:45pm
Ensuring Long-term Success through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Forward thinking solar manufacturing and service companies understand that they must leverage the current domestic market opportunity and incentives to create a robust export market. This requires the sector to identify its strengths, predict market directions, find the matches between the two and respond with high value-added technologies, products and services to win these markets over.
Where is the global solar market evolving? What promising technologies and services are being developed in Ontario? How might the necessary innovation and entrepreneurship capacity be fostered? What supports are available (or required) to make this a reality? This session is a must see for companies interested in ensuring their competitiveness and growth in the medium to long term.
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Guest Lecture on Digital SMPS - April 3
27/03/12 17:25
Prof. Yan-Fei Liu, from Queen's University is visiting us and presenting a guest lecture on Digital SMPS.
Title: Digital Control Technologies for Switching Power Converters
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room BA1200, UofT
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Title: Digital Control Technologies for Switching Power Converters
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room BA1200, UofT
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SSLNet Workshop Smart Sustainable Lighting
19/03/12 10:23
Please join us at the SSLNet yearly workshop on LED lighting. I will be giving a talk entitled "High Efficiency Power Electronics For Solid State Lighting: Challenges and Opportunities".
Date: Friday, March 16th, 2012
Time: 08:45 am to 05:00 pm
Venue: Medical Science Building Room3153, 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto
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Date: Friday, March 16th, 2012
Time: 08:45 am to 05:00 pm
Venue: Medical Science Building Room3153, 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto
Read More...Guest Lecture on Smart Sub-Stations - March 1
13/02/12 11:09
Prof. Tarlochan S. Sidhu, FIEEE, from UOIT is visiting us and presenting a guest lecture on Nov. 22, 2011.
Title: A Smart Substation - New Paradigm for Protection
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Galbraith Building, Room GB 120, UofT
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Title: A Smart Substation - New Paradigm for Protection
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Galbraith Building, Room GB 120, UofT
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ICUE Talk at Ryerson - Feb. 27
13/02/12 11:05
I will be giving on talk entitled "Embedded Power Electronics for Next Generation Smart Photovoltaic Panels" at Centre for Urban Energy on Feb. 27 at 2-4pm, Heaslip House, 7th floor, 297 Victoria St, Toronto.
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Read More...APEC Conference
03/02/12 11:00
We are headed to IEEE APEC in Orlando this week. Shahab's paper deals with high-granularity MPPT for embedded dc-dc converters in PV applications. Mazhar's paper is on a new tri-mode control strategy for achieving high-efficiency in bi-directional dc-dc converters for hybrid energy storage systems (u-cap + lithium battery) in EV applications. Read More...
APEC Educational Seminar
11/12/11 12:59
I am offering a professional educational seminar with Henk Jan Bergveld from NXP and Asif Ansari from Morgan Solar on power management for photovoltaics at the 2012 Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) on Feb. 6, 2012 in Orlando Florida.
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Read More...Guest Lecture on PHEV - Nov. 22 2011
22/11/11 15:36
Claudio Canizares from the University of Waterloo is visiting us and presenting a guest lecture on Nov. 22, 2011.
Title: Plug-in Electric Vehicle Impact on Ontario's Grid
Date: Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Galbraith Building, Room GB 248, UofT
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Title: Plug-in Electric Vehicle Impact on Ontario's Grid
Date: Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Galbraith Building, Room GB 248, UofT
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STAO Conference - Toronto
14/11/11 11:36
I'm at the STAO conference in Toronto to promote the teaching of renewable energy concepts in secondary schools using the newly developed UofT PV Starter Kit.
IEEE Spectrum Webinar - UofT - NI - NREL
10/11/11 16:32
I am participating in a IEEE webinar with National Instruments and NREL.
Accelerating Development of Smart Grid Power Electronics Control Systems with RCP and HIL Techniques
Abstract:
The design and deployment of grid-tied power electronics control systems historically has been hampered by a lack of rapid prototyping, commercial off-the-shelf embedded systems and real-time HIL simulators that satisfy the demanding requirements of switch-mode power system designers. To address these challenges, National Instruments is involved in a collaborative R&D effort with the National Renewable Energy Lab and other groups to develop a comprehensive new tool chain for power electronics system design based on reconfigurable FPGAs and high level graphical programming tools. Attend this session to see live demonstrations of new hardware/software tools under development and information on how you can become pioneer user and collaborator in the effort.
Accelerating Development of Smart Grid Power Electronics Control Systems with RCP and HIL Techniques
Abstract:
The design and deployment of grid-tied power electronics control systems historically has been hampered by a lack of rapid prototyping, commercial off-the-shelf embedded systems and real-time HIL simulators that satisfy the demanding requirements of switch-mode power system designers. To address these challenges, National Instruments is involved in a collaborative R&D effort with the National Renewable Energy Lab and other groups to develop a comprehensive new tool chain for power electronics system design based on reconfigurable FPGAs and high level graphical programming tools. Attend this session to see live demonstrations of new hardware/software tools under development and information on how you can become pioneer user and collaborator in the effort.
EMC - EV2011 in Toronto - Project EVE
28/09/11 10:39
Mazhar is joining the Project EVE team at the EV2011 conference presented by Electric Mobility Canada. Check out the A2B car with brand new EV drive-train.
Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2011)
28/09/11 10:36
Mazhar, Shawkat, Omar and I are at ECCE2011 in Phoenix, Arizona to present two papers on 1) multi-variable H2 control for thermal management in dc-dc converters and 2) optimal power-flow control in hybrid energy storage systems (ucap+lithium-ion battery) for electric vehicles.
Visit to NXP/High-Tech Campus
07/09/11 10:33
I'm at the high-tech campus Eindhoven, Holland, discussing industrial collaborations with NXP. I am also presenting a seminar entitled "Modern Mixed-Signal Control and Efficiency Optimization Techniques for DC-DC Converters".
Welcome to new students 2011
01/09/11 10:31
Welcome to Andishe Moshirvaziri and Shuze Zhao, who have joined the group as M.A.Sc. students in Sept. 2011. Congratulations to Shahab Poshtkouhi and Yue Wen for completing the M.A.Sc. and transitioning to the Ph.D. program.
International Conference on Power Electronics
30/07/11 16:53
I'm in Jeju, Korea presenting an invited paper on light-load efficiency optimization techniques for low-power dc-dc converters at the International Conference on Power Electronics (ICPE - aka. ECCE-Asia).
Industry Short Course on Integrated SMPS Short Course
26/05/11 16:51
I am offering an industry short-course on integrated high frequency SMPS in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Audrey wins Andre Hamer NSERC Prize
10/04/11 21:34
IEEE APEC
10/03/11 14:34
We are in Fort Worth USA to present our latest work on smps. Congratulations to Shahab and Pearl for winning the best presentation award for their technical session!
PV Installation on the Roof of GB
27/01/11 12:17
We're very excited to have our new PV installation on the roof of the Galbraith building. This will provide a versatile platform for future research efforts. To our knowledge, this is one of the first installations in North America with roof-mounted trackers. Thanks to Maury, Peter and Mark from InPhasePower and Manuel Da Costa from UofT for handling the logistics for this unique installation.
ISCAS Photovoltaic Short Course
15/01/11 11:49
I will be presenting a one-day short course at IEEE ISCAS 2011 entitled “Photovoltaic Power: Emerging Trends, Circuits and Devices” on May 15 in Rio de Janeiro. Fulll details are here. Early registration ends Jan. 21.
C4 Sustainability Challenge
22/11/10 16:42
I will be a judge in this year's C4 sustainability challenge. Sounds interesting!
"Students from around Ontario, coming from backgrounds including engineering, business, science and the arts will compete to make the world a better place. With the support of the Ontario Power Authority and Just Energy, you will design a method to reduce energy consumption at home, build a prototype, and create the business plan for this idea all in one day. The prize, 800 dollars in cash."
The competition will be held at the Sandford Fleming Building in the University of Toronto, and a bus will bring students from Waterloo to Toronto on Saturday morning. Don't miss this unique opportunity to connect, collaborate, create and compete!"
"Students from around Ontario, coming from backgrounds including engineering, business, science and the arts will compete to make the world a better place. With the support of the Ontario Power Authority and Just Energy, you will design a method to reduce energy consumption at home, build a prototype, and create the business plan for this idea all in one day. The prize, 800 dollars in cash."
The competition will be held at the Sandford Fleming Building in the University of Toronto, and a bus will bring students from Waterloo to Toronto on Saturday morning. Don't miss this unique opportunity to connect, collaborate, create and compete!"
A2B comes to UofT
22/11/10 16:37
We were delighted to host a visit from the creator of the A2B electric car, Steve Dallas and other members from Project EVE.
Project EVE - Electric Mobility
01/11/10 15:05
Visit from Prof. Sanders for Distinguished Lecture Series
28/10/10 11:36
We are very pleased to host a visit from Professor Seth Sanders from Berkeley. He will be giving a talk today on switched-capacitor approaches for on-chip voltage regulation.
International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip
17/10/10 05:59
I am giving a talk on gate-charge recycling for light load efficiency optimization in on-chip dc-dc converters at PwrSoC in Cork, Ireland. This is a unique gathering of the research community focused on monolithic switched-mode power supplies.
Welcome to new MASc students
15/08/10 20:05
Welcome to our new MASc students; Shawkat Zaman (BASc - UofT) and Mazhar Moshirvaziri (BASc - Sharif University)!
PV Short Course
15/08/10 20:03
I am giving a two-day short course on power electronics for PV applications in Penang Malaysia on Aug. 18
IEEE COMPEL
29/06/10 16:49
I am visiting CoPEC in Boulder for the IEEE COMPEL Conference where our group will present 3 papers on gate-charge recycling, EMI reduction with adaptive spread spectrum and SIDO modeling.
IEEE IPEC
22/06/10 09:17
Shahab is presenting his paper on Distributed MPPT at IEEE APEC in Sapporo, Japan.
PV Seminar at Fuji Electric
18/06/10 09:16
I am offering a seminar on Power Electronics for Photovoltaic applications at Fuji Electric, Matsumoto, Japan
CMOSET - Whistler
19/05/10 09:20
I am chairing sessions at the CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop in Whistler, Canada.
Toronto Green Innovation Award
23/04/10 16:18
We have received a Green Innovation Award from the City of Toronto.
SMPS Course at Infineon
17/02/10 09:15
I am is offering a short course entitled "Switched Mode Power Supplies" to Engineers at Infineon Technologies in Villach, Austria
