Dr. Mehdi Narimani received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and University Scholar at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He also holds the NSERC Canada Research Chair (CRC) position in high power converter systems. Prior joining McMaster University, he was a Power Electronics Engineer with Rockwell Automation Canada, Cambridge, ON, Canada. He has authored/coauthored more than 150 journal and conference proceeding papers, co-authored a Wiley-IEEE Press book, and holds 8 issued/pending US/European patents. He has been Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and vice chair and topic char for top tier conferences such as IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (IEEE ECCE) and IEEE Applied Power Electronics conference and Exhibition (IEEE APEC). His current research includes power conversion, control of power electronics converters, fast EV Chargers, and wireless EV charging systems.

Research Associate

Nasir Ali received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan, in June 2015. In September 2015, he moved to Shanghai, China for higher studies. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the School of Electronic Information and Electrical engineering (SEIEE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, in 2018, and 2022, respectively. From May 2022 to December 2022, he was a research associate with the Power Electronics and Industrial Control Research Group, at École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), University of Québec, Montreal, Canada. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow (PDF) with the high-power electronics lab (HiPEL) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, where he is leading a project on multilevel converters for switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives. His current research interests include high-performance control of electric motors, fault detection and fault-tolerant control of power electronic converters including multilevel power converters.

Research Topic Multilevel Inverters for Switch Reluctance Motor (SRM) Drives .

PhD Student

Mohamed Ibrahimi received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 2018. In January 2019, he continued on to pursue his Master of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering with McMaster University focusing on power electronics converters. At the beginning of his studies at McMaster University, he joined the McMaster Automotive Research Center (MARC) research group where he worked on developing power-dense power electronics converters for aerospace applications. Mohamed is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with McMaster University, focusing on development of power electronics DC-DC converters.

Research topic: High power density bidirectional isolated DC-DC converters for aerospace applications, The key figures of modernized aircraft electrical power networks are the weight and size reduction as well as the system efficiency. Mohamed’s work is focused on developing efficient power-dense isolated DC-DC converters that links between the HVDC bus to the LV network on the more electric and all electric aircrafts.

PhD Student

Omar Zayed received his B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt in 2019. In 2017, During his undergrad-studies he focused on powertrain systems design for EVs as a Powertrain Team leader, instructor & member for the ASU Racing Team participating in SEM-Urban Competition. In 2020 Omar joined the McMaster Automotive Resource Center (MARC) & McMaster High Power Electronics Research Lab (HiPEL) as an Electrical Engineering M.Sc. student working on industrial research projects, Omar is under the supervision of Dr. Mehdi Narimani and Dr. Berker Bilgin. His current research area includes motor drives, ultra-fast battery chargers & EV systems.

Research Topic High power ultra-fast chargers, this research is to develop ultra-fast battery charging technologies for EVs, while also working on the development of multi-level high power industrial grade motor drive systems.

PhD Student

Ahmed Elezab received his bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Mechatronics Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2019. During his undergrad he participated in Shell eco marathon competition for EVs as an electric powertrain member. He joined HiPEL Research group in May 2020. He is currently pursuing a PhD at McMaster university. His research focuses on developing ultra-fast battery chargers for electrified vehicles and he is involved in the development of multi-level high power industrial grade motor drive systems.

Research topic: Ultra-fast battery chargers for Electric Vehicles, the research aim is to develop Ultra-Fast charger. Ultra-Fast chargers is the 3rd generation of battery electric vehicles chargers. It consists of a front-end AC-DC converter for active power factor correction (PFC) and a DC-DC converter to regulate the output voltage and current.

PhD Student

Alireza Lorestani received his M.Sc. degree in power system engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran in 2017. As of January 2019, he joined Integrated Community Energy and Harvesting Systems (ICE-Harvest) research Lab, McMaster University, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Research topic: Predictive control strategy for on-line optimal operation of ICE-Harvest System, the objective of his research is to develop a software that optimizes the real-time operation of the ICE-Harvesting system. This software is a predictive optimization framework that determines the real-time setpoints for the converters, actuators, etc. in the downstream at every discrete time step, such as every 5 minutes.

PhD Student

Alireza Barmaki received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ECE Department, University of Tehran, Iran in 2016. He received M.S. degree in Power Electronic engineering from Sharif University of Technology where he worked as Research Assistant in Electric Drives and Power Electronics Laboratory (EDPEL) from 2016 to 2018. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at McMaster University and his main research interest is in Visible Light Communication (VLC) and its integration into Power Converters.

Research topic: VLC Integration into Power Converters, today’s growing demand for wireless communication has given rise to VLC (Visible Light Communication) which necessitates the existence of proper power converters (LED Drivers) to provide the system with good illumination and data transmission rate. Design and implementation of an efficient driver capable of producing modulated current to drive the luminaires is of great importance.

PhD Student

Mehdi Alimardani received his B.Tech. degree in power and energy engineering and Master of Applied Science degree in electrical engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a PhD student at McMaster University and a specialist for the Power and Energy Laboratories. He is a Sessional Faculty with the WBooth School of Engineering Practice and Technology at McMaster University and also a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

Research topic: The objective of his research is to evaluate the impact of the Fast EV Charging Stations on the Electrical Power Grid Systems with integrated Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Storage Systems.

MASc Student

Eslam Younis received his B.Sc. in electrical power engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 2020. During his undergrad studies, he participated in the Shell Eco-marathon Urban-EV competition with the ASU Racing team as a powertrain team leader in 2019, and as a team captain in 2020. In 2021, Eslam joined the McMaster High Power Electronics Research Lab (HiPEL) as a MASc. student. His research is focused on solid-state transformer-based EV Ultra-fast charging stations.

Research Topic Solid-State Transformers for Ultra-Fast Chargers

MASc Student

Yue Pan received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2020. He joined in HiPEL research group in 2021. He is currently pursuing his MASc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University. His research focuses on the model predictive control (MPC) and fault management in multilevel converters applied for medium-voltage motor drives.

Research Topic Modulated model predictive control (MMPC) and fault detection and localization (FDL) for cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converters.

MASc Student

Kyle Kozielsk received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, in 2022, where he is currently pursuing the M.A.Sc. degree. Kyle joined the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC) team in May 2022 where he is working in two industry collaborated research projects sponsored by Eaton Corporation.

Research Topic Power electronics converters and solid-state protection circuits in electrified transportation applications.

MASc Student

Research Topic Thermal Management of Ultra-Fast Chargers

MASc Student

Research Topic Ultra-Fast Chargers for EV Applications