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CoPEC Post-Doc Researchers

CoPEC Faculty

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CoPEC Visiting Scholars



  • (10/27/09) Congratulations to Rajarshi Paul for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on adaptive power control for WCDMA RF power amplifiers with antenna mismatch.
  • (10/15/09) Congratulations to Jeff Morroni for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on adaptive tuning and monitoring of digitally controlled switched-mode power supplies.
  • Luca Corradini, Barry Mather and Xu Zhang presented papers at IEEE ECCE in San Jose, September 20-24, 2009.
  • (8/10/09) Congratulations to Amir Babazadeh for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on digital switching-surface control of DC-DC converters
  • (7/31/09) Congratulations to Mari Shirazi for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis on embedded frequency response measurements for monitoring and tuning of digitally-controlled DC-DC converters
 

Graduate students

Aleksandar Bjeletic, Ph.D. candidate, sigma-delta techniques in controllers for DC-DC converters; co-advisor: Prof. Regan Zane

Fu-Zen Chen, Ph.D. candidate, control techniques for efficiency improvements over wide ranges of operating conditions in power factor correction rectifiers

Sang Hee Kang, Ph.D. candidate, efficiency optimization techniques

Yushan Li, Ph.D. candidate, power management for multi-mode RF transmitters

Barry Mather, Ph.D. candidate, digital control techniques for power factor correction rectifiers

Nguyen Hien Minh, Ph.D. candidate, smart DC power system controls

Sung Woo Moon, Ph.D. candidate, adaptive control techniques for DC-DC converters and AC-DC rectifiers

Mark Norris, Ph.D. candidate, wide-bandwidth, high-efficiency envelope tracking amplifiers for RF transmitters

Xu Zhang, Ph.D. candidate, digital control techniques for single-phase and multi-phase synchronous buck DC-DC converters


CoPEC post-doc researchers

Dr. Luca Corradini, CoPEC Professional Research Associate, 2008-

Dr. Botao Miao, CoPEC Professional Research Associate, 2003-2007


CoPEC faculty collaborators

Prof. Robert W. Erickson

Prof. Zoya Popovic

Prof. Regan Zane


Graduates

Rajarshi Paul, Ph.D. 2009, Thesis: Adaptive Power Control for WCDMA RF Power Amplifiers with Antenna Mismatch

Jeff Morroni, Ph.D. 2009, Thesis: Adaptive Tuning and Monitoring of Digitally Controlled Switched-Mode Power Supplies; co-advisor: Prof. Regan Zane

Amir Babazadeh, Ph.D. 2009, Thesis: Switching Surface Approach for Improved Transient Response in Digitally Controlled DC-DC Power Converters

Mariko Shirazi, Ph.D. 2009, Thesis: Embedded Frequency Response Measurement Capability for Monitoring and Tuning of System Dynamics in Digitally-Controlled DC-DC Converters. Co-advisor: Prof. Regan Zane.

Shruti Yalamurty, M.S. 2008

Yang Zhang, Ph.D. 2007, Thesis: Digital Control in Modular Multiphase DC-DC Converters. Co-advisor: Prof. Regan Zane.

Xufeng Jiang, Ph.D. 2007, Thesis: Envelope-Tracking Power Supplies for RF Power Amplifiers in Portable Applications

Milan Ilic, Ph.D. 2007, Thesis: Analysis, Modeling and Design of a Wide Range Constant Power Source

Bhaskar Ramachandran, M.S. 2007

Vahid Yousefzadeh, Ph.D. 2006, Thesis: Digitally Controlled Power Converters for RF Power Amplifiers. Dr. Yousefzadeh is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver.

Haitao Hu, M.S. 2006

Hao Peng, Ph.D. 2006, Thesis: Digital Current-Mode Control of DC-DC Converters

Barry Arbetter, Ph.D. 2006, Thesis: DC-DC Converter Utilizing Hysteretic Current-Mode Control for Low-Voltage Microprocessor Systems with Power Management

Toru Takayama, M.S. 2006, Thesis: Optimization of Monolithic Digitally Controlled DC-DC Converters

Sandeep Dhar, Ph.D. 2004, Thesis: Low-Power Design Using Adaptive Voltage Scaling and Multiple Voltage Distribution

Praneet Athalye, Ph.D. 2004, Thesis: High-Performance Power Factor Correctors for Avionics Applications. Co-advisor: Prof. Robert Erickson

Serge Simonov, M.S. 2004, Thesis: Inductor Design for Monolithic DC-DC Converters

Asif Syed, M.S. 2004, Thesis: Feed-Forward Digital Pulse Modulators

Ershad Ahmed, M.S. 2004, Thesis: High-Frequency Low-Power Digital PWM Controller Chip with Feed-Forward Compensation

Aleksandar Prodic, Ph.D. 2003, Thesis: Digital Control of Switching Converters: Design and VLSI/DSP Implementation. Dr. Prodic is now an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.

Kusumal Changtong, Ph.D. 2003, Thesis: Magnetics Modeling and Design for Improved Cross-Regulation. Co-advisor: Prof. Robert Erickson

Jingquen Chen, Ph.D. 2002, Thesis: Topologies and Control of Single-Phase Low-Harmonic Rectifiers. Co-advisor: Prof. Robert Erickson

Michael Vincent, M.S. 2002, Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Self-Calibrated Delay-Line Analog-to-Digital Converter

Benjamin Patella, M.S. 2000, Thesis: High-Speed Low-Power Digital PWM Controller. For his work on the "Buffalo Switcher" all-digital PWM control chip Ben Patella received the College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Research.

Regan Zane, Ph.D. 1999, Thesis: Development, Analysis, and Implementation of an ASIC Controller for Single-Phase Power-Factor-Correction. Dr. Zane is now an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado

Nagandini Jayaram, M.S. 1997, Thesis: Power Factor Corrector Based on Coupled-Inductor SEPIC with Nonlinear-Carrier Control

Anders Fagerhaud, M.S. 1996, Thesis: Nonlinear-Carrier Control for Single-Phase High-Power-Factor Rectifiers

Brede Arntzen, M.S. 1995, Thesis: Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter Design for Low-Power Applications

Predrag Pejovic, Ph.D. 1995, Thesis: A Method for Simulation of Power Electronic Systems Using Piecewise-Linear Device Models. Dr. Pejovic is now a Professor at the University of Belgrade.


CoPEC visiting scholars

Prof. Eduard Alarcon Cot, Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Group, Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Miguel Rodriguez Gonzales, Ph.D. candidate, Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón, Spain (2009)

Marco Meola, Ph.D. candidate, University of Trieste, Italy (2007)

Daniele Trevisan, M.S. candidate, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy (2007)

Mikkel Hoyerby, Ph.D. candidate, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark (2007)

Lazaro Marco, Ph.D. candidate, Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (2006, 2007, 2008)

Luca Corradini, Ph.D. candidate, University of Padova, Italy (2005)