AKSHAY KUMAR RATHORE

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Concordia University

Montreal, Canada

Email: akshay.k.rathore@ieee.org; arathore@encs.concordia.ca

Senior Member IEEE (USA)

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

1. Electrical Machines for Automotive Applications

2. Soft-switching Techniques for High-frequency Power Conversion

3. Automotive Power Electronics for ground vehicles and marine applications

4. Innovative Power Electronics Topologies

5. Resonant and PWM converters; Bidirectional converters

6. Multilevel inverters

7. Optimal control of electrical drives including medium voltage industrial drives

8. Distributed Generation; Renewable Integration; Rural Electrification, Micro-grid Energy System

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Ph. D.: University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Power Electronics; 2008

M. Tech.: Indian Institute of Technology, (BHU), Varanasi, India; Electrical Machines and Drives; 2003

*Gold Medalist for highest academic standing.

B. E.: Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, India; Electrical Engineering;

2001

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2010-2015

- Trained 1 postdoctoral research fellow

- Graduated 2 PhD students

- Trained 3 MSc students

- Trained 3 Research Engineers

- Currently training 4 Research Engineers and 2 postdoctoral research fellows

- Currently supervising 9 doctoral (PhD) students and 1 Masters thesis

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago,

USA; Sept. 2009 – Sept 2010; Adviser - Prof. Sudip K. Mazumder

Funded by: National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DoE), USA.

Research Fellow: Electrical Machines and Drives Research Lab, Wuppertal University, Germany.

Supervisor: Prof. Emeritus Joachim Holtz, Life Fellow IEEE Sept. 2008 – Aug. 2009.

Funded by: WEG Brazil

‘Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation of Multilevel Inverter for Low Switching Frequency Control of Medium

Voltage High Power Industrial AC Drives’: Low THD, Low Common Mode Voltage and NPP Balancing

RESEARCH GRANTS (PROJECTS)

1) Residential Utility Interfaced Smart Hybrid Energy System, Role-PI, Ministry of Education Tier

1(funding agency), 179,950 $

2) Solar Integrated Micro Solid State Transformer, Role-PI, Ministry of Education Tier 1(funding

agency), 134,500 $

3) Dynamic Optimization and Energy Management for Smart Grids, Role-Co-PI, Energy market

Authority (funding agency), 1.57 M$

4) Intelligent Power Management System for Electric Propulsion based Marine Vessels for

Improving Reliability, Operational Cost, Performance and Efficiency Operating under Different

Operating Conditions, Role- Co-PI, Singapore Maritime Institute (funding agency), 805,600 $

5) Fault Tolerant Capacitorless Three-phase Inverter for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles with

Reduced Magnetics & Electrolyte Volume and Device Count, Role-PI, Singapore MIT Alliance for

Research and Technology (SMART), 205,000 $

6) Modular Current-Fed Technology for High Efficiency Convenient Wireless Charging, Role-PI,

Ministry of Education Tier 1(funding agency), 152,000 $

7) Multi-level Medium Voltage Drives System for Marine Applications, Role-Co-PI, Economic

development Board (funding agency), 50,000 $

8) Solar Energy Harvesting and Active Enery Management System for Nano-Statellites, Role Co-PI, Ministry of Education Tier 1(funding agency), 173,400 $

9) Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Battery for Large Scale Stationary Storage Applications, Phase 1: Optimization of Full Cell Fabrication, Role-Collaborator, FRC, 645,000 $

HONOURS AND AWARDS

1) 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award

2) 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Young Member Award

3) Marquis “Who’s Who in the World”, Listed in October 2008 Edition.

4) Marquis “Who’s Who in America”, Listed in November 2008 Edition.

5) Marquis “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering”, Listed in September 2006 Edition.

6) “Thouvenelle Graduate Scholarship” by University of Victoria, 2006-2007.

7) “University of Victoria Full Fellowship (Ph D Level)” for 2004-2005.

8) Student Travel Grant from IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for IEEE International Symposium

on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) 2004 held in France.

9) Student Travel Grant from IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for IEEE International Conference

on Industrial Technology (ICIT) 2003, Maribor, Slovenia.

10) GOLD MEDAL for standing first in M. Tech. (Electrical Engineering) in 2003.

11) Sscholarship by Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) and University Grants

Commission (UGC) for M. Tech. (Electrical Engg.) for 2001-2003.

Patent (2013). EP09171698.5, MERH Ref.: 200621EP: Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation for Multilevel

Inverter Systems. Filed by WEG Brazil

Inventor: P J Torri, Akshay K Rathore, T. Boller and. J. Holtz, and Nicholas Oikonomou

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS

1. D. Chakraborty, E. Breaz, A. K. rathore, and F. Gao, “Parasitics Assisted Soft-switching and

Secondary Modulated Snubberless Clamping Current-fed Bidirectional Voltage Doubler for Fuel Cell

Vehicles,” in press, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2016.

2. R. K. Surapaneni, D. B. Yelaverthy, and A. K. Rathore, “Cycloconverter Based Double-ended

Microinverter Topologies for Solar Photovoltaic AC (PVAC) Module,” in press, IEEE Journal of

Emerging Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 2016.

3. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, “Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation of Medium-Voltage Modular

Multilevel Converter," in press, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2016.

4. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, “Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation for Common-Mode Voltage

Elimination of Medium-Voltage Modular Multilevel Converter fed Open-end Stator Winding Induction

Motor Drives," in press, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2016.

5. S. Bal, A. K. Rathore, D. Srinivasan, “Naturally Clamped Snubberless Soft-Switching Bidirectional

Current-Fed Three-Phase Push-Pull DC/DC Converter for DC Micro-Grid Application,” in press, IEEE

Transactions on Industry Applications, 2015, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2015.2487444.

6. R. S. Krishna Moorthy, and A. K. Rathore, “Impulse Commutated Zero Current Switching Current-fed

Three-phase DC/DC Converter,” in press, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2015,

DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2015.2487443.

7. R. S. Krishna Moorthy, and A. K. Rathore, “Soft switching Non-isolated Current-fed Inverter for

PV/Fuel Cell Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 52, no. 1, Jan 2016, pp.

351-359.

8. S. Samanta, and A. K. Rathore, “A New Current-fed Topology with CLC Transmitter and LC Receiver

for Inductive Wireless Power Transfer Application: Analysis, Design, and Experimental Results,” IEEE

Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 1, no. 4, Dec 2015, pp. 357-368.

9. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, “A Survey of Low Switching Frequency Modulation Techniques for

Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converters," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 51, no. 5,

Sept 2015, pp. 4212-4228.

10. R. K. Surapaneni, and A. K. Rathore, " A Single Stage CCM Zeta Microinverter for Solar Photovoltaic

AC Module," IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 3, no. 4, Dec 2015,

pp. 892-900.

11. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, “Fundamental Switching Frequency Optimal Pulse Width Modulation

of Medium Voltage Cascaded Seven-Level Inverter," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol.

51, no. 4, July 2015, pp. 3485-3492.

12. S.S. Williamson, F. Musavi, and A. K. Rathore, "Industrial Electronics for Electric Transportation:

Current State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62,

no. 5, May 2015, pp. 3021-3032.

13. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Small Signal Modeling of Snubberless Soft-switching Current-fed

Bidirectional Converter and Control Implementation using PSoC,", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular

Technology, vol. 64, no. 11, Nov 2015, pp. 4996-5005.

14. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, “Fundamental Switching Frequency Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation

of Medium Voltage Nine level (9L) Inverter," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no.

7, July 2015, pp. 4096-4104.

15. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Naturally Clamped Soft-switching Current-fed Three-Phase

Bidirectional DC/DC Converter," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 5, May

2015, pp. 316-3324.

16. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, "New Optimal Pulsewidth Modulaton for Single DC Link Dual

Inverter-fed Open-end Stator Winding Induction Motor Drive,” IEEE Transactions on Power

Electronics, vol. 30, no. 8, Aug 2015, pp. 4386-4393.

17. R. S. Krishnamoorthy, and A. K. Rathore, "Hybrid Modulated Extended Secondary Universal Current-

fed ZVS Converter for Wide Voltage Range: Analysis, Design, and Experimental Results," IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 7, July 2015, pp. 4471-4480.

18. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Naturally Clamped Zero Current Commutated Soft-switching Current-

fed Push-Pull DC/DC Converter: Analysis, Design, and Experimental Results," IEEE Transactions on

Power Electronics, Vol. 30, no. 3, March 2015, pp. 1318-1327.

19. B. Satarupa, A. K. Rathore, and D. Srinivasan, "Modular Snubberless Bidirectional Soft-switching

Current-fed Dual 6-Pack (CFD6P) dc/dc Converter," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, VOL.

30, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2015.

20. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, "Optimal Low Switching Frequency Pulsewidth Modulation of Nine-

Level (9L) Cascade Inverter," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vo. 30, no. 1, Jan 2015, pp.

482-495.

21. R. S. Krishnamoorthy, and A. K. Rathore, "Impulse Commutated Zero Current Switching Current-fed

Push-pull (ICCPP) Converter: Analysis, Design and Experimental Results," IEEE Transactions on

Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 1, Jan 2015, pp. 363-370.

22. U. R. Prasanna, P. Xuewei, A. K. Rathore, and K. Rajasekhara, “Propulsion System Architectures

and Power Conditioning Topologies for Fuel Cell Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Industry

Applications, Vol. 51, no. 1, Jan 2015, pp. 640-650.

23. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, "Optimal Low Switching Frequency Pulse Width Modulation of

Medium Voltage Seven-Level (7L) Cascade-5/3H Inverter," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,

Vol. 30, no. 1, Jan 2015, 496-503.

24. P. Xuewei, A. K. Rathore, and U. R. Prasanna, "Novel Soft-Switching Snubberless Naturally Clamped

Current-Fed Full-Bridge Front-End Converter Based Bidirectional Inverter for Renewables, Microgrid

and UPS Applications," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 50, no. 6, Dec 2014, pp.

4132-4141.

25. J. Adhikari, A. K. Rathore, and S. K. Panda, "Modular Interleaved Soft-switching DC-DC Converter for

High Altitude Wind Energy Application," IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topics in Power

Electronics, Vol. 2, no. 4, Dec 2014, pp. 727-738.

26. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Current-fed Soft-Switching Push-pull Front-end Converter Based

Bidirectional Inverter for Residential Photovoltaic Power System," IEEE Transactions on Power

Electronics, Vol. 29, no. 11, Nov 2014, pp. 6041-6051.

27. U. R. Prasanna and A. K. Rathore, “Dual Three-Pulse-Modulation (DTPM) Based High-Frequency

Pulsating DC Link Two-Stage Three-phase Inverter for Electric/Hybrid/Fuel Cell Vehicles

Applications," IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 2, no. 3, Sep

2014, pp. 477-486.

28. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, “Novel Bidirectional Snubberless Naturally Commutated Soft-switching

Current-fed Full-bridge Isolated DC/DC Converter for Fuel Cell Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on

Industrial Electronics, vol. 61, no. 5, 2014, pp. 2307-2315.

29. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “Small signal analysis of current-fed full-bridge isolated dc/dc

onverter with active-clamp and control system implementation using PSoC,” IEEE Transactions on

Industrial Electronics, vol. 61, no. 3, 2014, pp. 1253-1261.

30. T. Boller, J. Holtz, and A. K. Rathore, “Neutral Point Potential Balancing Using Synchronous Optimal

Pulsewidth Modulation of Multilevel in Medium Voltage High Power AC Drives,” IEEE Transactions on

Industry Applications, vol. 50, no. 1, 2014, pp. 549-557.

31. U. R. Prasanna and A. K. Rathore, “Current-Fed Interleaved Phase-Modulated Single-Phase

Unfolding Inverter: Analysis, Design and Experimental Results,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial

Electronics, vol. 61, no. 1, 2014, pp. 310-319.

32. U. R. Prasanna and A. K. Rathore, “Novel Single Reference Six-Pulse-Modulation (SRSPM)

Technique Based Interleaved High-Frequency Three-phase inverter for Fuel Cell Vehicles," IEEE

Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 12, 2013, pp. 5547-5556.

33. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Novel Interleaved Bidirectional Snubberless Soft-switching Current-fed

Full-bridge Voltage Doubler for Fuel Cell Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 28,

no. 12, 2013, pp. 5535-5546.

34. A. K. Rathore, J. Holtz, and T. Boller, “Generalized optimal pulsewidth modulation of multilevel

inverters for low switching frequency control of medium voltage high power industrial ac drives,” IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 60, no. 10, 2013, pp. 4215-4224.

35. A. K. Rathore, and U. R. Prasanna, "Analysis, design, and experimental results of novel snubberless

bi-directional naturally clamped ZCS/ZVS current-fed half-bridge dc/dc converter for fuel cell vehicles”

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 60, no. 10, 2013, pp. 4482-4491.

36. U. R. Prasanna and A. K. Rathore, “Novel zero-current switching current-fed half-bridge isolated

dc/dc converter for fuel cell applications,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 49, no. 4,

2013, pp. 1658-1668.

37. U. R. Prasanna and A. K. Rathore, “Extended range ZVS active-clamped current-fed full-bridge

isolated dc/dc converter for fuel cell applications: analysis, design and experimental results,” IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 60, issue 7, 2013, pp. 2661-2672.

38. P. Xuewei, U. R. Prasanna, and A. K. Rathore, “Magnetizing inductance assisted wide range ZVS

three-phase AC link current-fed dc/dc converter with active-clamp: analysis, design and experimental

results,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 28, issue 7, 2013, pp. 3317-3328.

39. U. R. Prasanna and A. K. Rathore, “Novel Soft-switching Snubberless Current-fed Half-bridge Front-

end Converter Based PV Inverter: Analysis, Design and Experimental Results,” IEEE Transactions on

Power Electronics, vol. 28, issue 7, 2013, pp. 3219-3230.

40. T. Boller, J. Holtz, and A. K. Rathore, “Optimal pulsewidth modulation of a dual three-level inverter

system operated from a single dc link,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 48, issue 5,

Sept/Oct 2012, pp. 1610-1615.

41. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and R. Oruganti “Analysis, design and experimental results of wide range

ZVS active-clamped L-L type current-fed dc-dc converter for fuel cell to utility interface application,”

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol 59, issue 1, Jan 2012, pp 473-485.

42. S. K. Mazumder and A. K. Rathore, "Primary-side-converter-assisted soft-switching scheme for an

ac/ac converter in a cycloconverter-type high-frequency-link inverter," IEEE Transactions on Industrial

Electronics, vol. 58, issue 9, 2011, pp. 4161-4166.

43. A. K. Rathore, J. Holtz, and T. Boller, "Synchronous optimal pulsewidth modulation for low switching

frequency control of medium voltage multilevel inverters," IEEE Transactions on Industrial

Electronics, vol. 57, issue 7, July 2010, pp. 2374-2381.

44. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and R. Oruganti, “A comparison of soft switched dc-dc converters for fuel

cell to utility interface application,” IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 128, no. 4, 2008,

pp. 450-458.

45. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and R. Oruganti “Classification and comparison of interfacing schemes

for connecting fuel cells to a single-phase utility line," International Journal on Power Electronics, vol.

3, no. 5, 2011, pp. 469-495.

46. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat, S. Nandi and R. Oruganti, “Small signal analysis and closed loop control

design of active-clamped ZVS two-inductor current-fed isolated dc-dc converter," IET Power

Electronics, vol. 4, 2011, pp. 51-62.

47. A. K. Rathore, "Interleaved soft-switched active-clamped L-L type current-fed half-bridge dc-dc

converter," International Journal on Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier), vol. 34, issue 24, Dec 2009, pp.

9802-9815.

48. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and R. Oruganti “Small signal modeling and closed loop control design of

ZVS current-fed half-bridge L-L type dc/dc converter with active-clamp," International Journal on

Computer and Electrical Engineering, vol. 2, no. 6, Dec 2010, pp. 951-959.

CONFERENCES

1. K. Radha Sree and A. K. Rathore, "Analysis and Design of Impulse Commutated ZCS Three-Phase

Current-Fed Push-Pull DC/DC Converter,” IEEE APEC 2016, Long Beach, USA.

2. K. Gnana and A. K. Rathore, "Optimal Low Switching Frequency Pulse Width Modulation of Current-

Fed Three-Level Inverter for Solar Integration,” IEEE APEC 2016, Long Beach, USA.

3. K. Gnana and A. K. Rathore, " Optimal Low Switching Frequency Pulse Width Modulation of Current-

Fed Five-Level Inverter for Solar Integration,” IEEE APEC 2016, Long Beach, USA.

4. A. Edpuganti, Ankita Dwivedi, A. K. Rathore, and R. K. Srivastava, "Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation

of Cascade nine-level (9L) inverter for Medium-Voltage high power industrial ac drives", IEEE IECON

2015, Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 2015.

5. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Bidirectional naturally clamped soft-switching current-fed push-pull

DC/DC Converter," IEEE IECON 2015, Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 2015.

6. S. Bal, A. K. Rathore, and D. Srinivasan, “Naturally Commutated Current-fed Three-phase

Bidirectional Soft-switching DC-DC Converter with New Modulation Technique,” IEEE IAS Annual

Meeting 2015, Dallas, USA, Oct 2015.

7. R. K. Surapaneni, D. B. Yelaverthy, A. K. Rathore, and G. Hua, “Comparative study of cycloconverter

based double-ended isolated microinverter topologies for solar photovoltaic AC (SPVAC) module,”

IEEE IAS Annual Meeting 2015, Dallas, USA, Oct 2015.

8. D. Chakraborty, E. Breaz, A. K. Rathore, and F. Gao, “Parasitics Assisted Soft-switching and

Naturally Commutated Current-fed Bidirectional Push-pull Voltage Doubler,” IEEE IAS Annual

Meeting 2015, Dallas, USA, Oct 2015.

9. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, "Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation of Medium-Voltage Modular

Multilevel Converter", IEEE IAS Annual Meeting 2015, Dallas, USA, Oct 2015.

10. S. Samanta, and A. K. Rathore, “A New Current-fed (C)(LC) (LC) Topology for Inductive Wireless

Power Transfer (IWPT) Application: Analysis, Design, and Experimental Results,” IEEE ECCE 2015,

Montreal, Canada, 20-24 Sept. Canada.

11. S. Samanta, and A. K. Rathore, “Analysis and Design of Current-fed (L)(C) (LC) Converter for

Inductive Wireless Power Transfer (IWPT),” IEEE ECCE 2015, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 Sept.

Canada.

12. R. K. Surapaneni, and A. K. Rathore, “A Single-stage CCM Zeta Microinverter for Solar Photovoltaic

AC (PVAC) Module,” IEEE ECCE 2015, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 Sept. Canada.

13. R. K. Surapaneni, and A. K. Rathore, “A Novel Single-Stage Isolated PWM Half-Bridge Microinverter

for Solar Photovoltaic Modules,” IEEE ECCE 2015, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 Sept. Canada.

14. D. Chakraborty and A. K. Rathore, “Parasitics Assisted Soft-switching and Secondary-Clamped

Current-fed Bidirectional Voltage Doubler for Fuel cell Vehicles,” IEEE ITEC India 2015, Chennai,

India, Aug 2015.

15. D. R. Patil, A. K. Rathore, and D. Srinivasan, "A Non-Isolated Bidirectional Soft Switching Current-fed

LCL Resonant dc/dc Converter to Interface Energy Storage in DC Microgrid," IEEE APEC, Charlotte,

USA, March 2015.

16. S. Bal, A. K. Rathore, and D. Srinivasan, "Naturally Clamped Snubberless Soft-switching Bidirectional

Current-fed Three-Phase Push-Pull DC/DC Converter for DC Microgrid Application," IEEE APEC,

Charlotte, USA, March 2015.

17. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, "Optimal Fundamental Switching Frequency Pulsewidth Modulation

of Medium-Voltage Cascade Nine-Level (9L) Inverter", IEEE PEDES, Mumbai, India, DEE 2014.

18. K. Radha and A. K. Rathore, "Soft Switching Non-isolated Current-fed Inverter for PV/Fuel-cell

Applications," IEEE PEDES, Mumbai, India, DEE 2014.

19. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Small Signal Modeling of Naturally Clamped Soft-switching Current-fed

Dual Active Bridge (CFDAB) DC/DC Converter and Control Design using Cypress PSoC," IEEE

PEDES, Mumbai, India, DEE 2014.

20. D. Patil, A. K. Rathore, S. K. Panda, and D. Srinivasan, "High-Frequency Soft-switching LCC

Resonant Current-fed DC/DC converter with High Voltage Gain for DC Microgrid Application," IEEE

IECON 2014, Dallas, USA, Nov. 2014.

21. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Current-fed Three-Phase Soft-switching DC/DC Converter with Natural

Device Commutation and Voltage Clamping," IEEE IECON 2014, Dallas, USA, Nov. 2014.

22. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, "A Survey of Low Switching Frequency Modulation Techniques for

Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converters," IEEE IAS Annual meeting 2014, Vancouver, Canada, Oct.

2014.

23. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, "Fundamental Switching Frequency Optimal Pulse Width Modulation

of Medium Voltage Cascaded Seven-Level Inverter," IEEE IAS Annual meeting 2014, Vancouver,

Canada, Oct. 2014.

24. S. Bal, A. K. Rathore, and D. Srinivasan, “Modular Snubberless Bidirectional Soft-switching Current-

fed Dual 6-Pack (CFD6P) dc/dc Converter,” IEEE ECCE 2014, Pittsburgh, USA.

25. A. Edpuganti and A. K. Rathore, “New Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation for Dual Inverter fed Open-end

Stator Winding Induction Motor Drive," IEEE ECCE 2014, Pittsburgh, USA.

26. R. S. Krishnamoorthy, and A. K. Rathore, “Hybrid Modulated Universal Soft-switching Current-Fed

DC/DC Converter for Wide Voltage Regulation for PV/Fuel Cell/Battery Applications,” IEEE IPEC-

ECCE ASIA 2014, Hiroshima, Japan, May 2014.

27. R. S. Krishnamoorthy, and A. K. Rathore, “Zero Current Switching Current-fed Parallel Resonant

Push-pull (CFPRPP) Converter: Analysis, Design and Experimental Results,” IEEE IPEC-ECCE ASIA

2014, Hiroshima, Japan, May 2014.

28. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, “Comparison of Bi-directional Voltage-fed and Current-fed Dual Active

Bridge Isolated Dc/Dc Converters for Fuel Cell Vehicles/Energy Storage,” IEEE ISIE 2014, Istanbul,

Turkey, June 2014.

29. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, "Soft-switching current-fed push-pull converter based bidirectional

inverter for residential photovoltaic system," IEEE ISIE 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2014.

30. J. Adhikari, A. K. Rathore, S. K. Panda, “Comparison of ZVS based isolated dc/dc converters for high

altitude wind power application,” IEEE IECON 2013, Vienna, Austria.

31. S. Sumith, J. Panida, and A. K. Rathore, Impacts of Reactive Power Injections on Thermal

Performances of PV Inverters,” IEEE IECON 2013, Vienna, Austria.

32. J. Adhikari, A. K. Rathore, S. K. Panda, “Modular Interleaved ZVS Current Fed Isolated DC-DC

Converter for Harvesting High Altitude Wind Power,” IEEE IECON 2013, Vienna, Austria.

33. J. Adhikari, S. K. Panda, A. K. Rathore, “Harvesting High Altitude Wind Power using Light Gas Filled

Lamp,” IEEE IECON 2013, Vienna, Austria.

34. Prasanna UR, P. Xuewei, and A. K. Rathore, “Architectural overview of fuel cell vehicle power

conditioning: A survey of power converters,” IEEE ECCE 2013, Denver, USA.

35. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, “Novel bidirectional snubberless naturally clamped ZCS current-fed full-

bridge voltage doubler: analysis, design, and experimental results,” IEEE ECCE 2013, Denver, USA.

36. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, “Novel bidirectional snubberless soft-switching naturally clamped zero

current commutated current-fed dual active bridge (CFDAB) converter for fuel cell vehicles,” IEEE

ECCE 2013, Denver, USA.

37. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “High-frequency interleaved three-phase inverter with novel single

reference six-pulse-modulation (SRSPM) technique,” IEEE ECCE 2013, Denver, USA.

38. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, “Novel soft-switching snubberless naturally clamped current-fed full-

bridge front-end converter based bidirectional inverter for renewable, microgrid, and UPS

applications,” IEEE ECCE 2013, Denver, USA.

39. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “Two loop average current control implementation using Cypress

PSoC with closed loop experimental results,” IEEE ECCE 2013, Denver, USA.

40. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, “Novel interleaved bidirectional snubberless naturally clamped zero

current commutated soft-switching current-fed full-bridge voltage doubler for fuel cell vehicles,” IEEE

ECCE 2013, Denver, USA.

41. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “High-frequency three-phase inverter employing new six-pulse-

modulation technique for rural electrification/microgrid/DER/EV applications,” IEEE ICIT 2013,

Capetown, South Africa.

42. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “Novel soft-switching snubberless current-fed half-bridge front-end

converter based PV inverter,” IEEE APEC 2013, Long Beach, USA.

43. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “New modulation technique for hybrid soft-switching and low duty

ratio operation of active-clamped current-fed full-bridge isolated dc/dc converter,” IEEE PEDES 2012,

Bangalore, India.

44. P. Xuewei, Prasanna UR, and A. K. Rathore, “Analysis, design, and experimental results of soft-

switching current-fed three-phase isolated dc/dc converter: CCM and DCM modes of operation for

auxiliary clamp capacitor current,” PEDES2012, Bangalore, India.

45. G. Kulothungan and A. K. Rathore, “Analysis, design & experimental results of active-clamped ZVS

current-fed three-phase dc/dc converter with simple modulation technique and magnetizing

inductance Effect,” PEDES 2012, Bangalore, India.

46. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “Analysis and design of current-fed phase-modulated interleaved

unfolding inverter,” IEEE IECON 2012, Montreal, Canada.

47. P. Xuewei and A. K. Rathore, “Magnetizing inductance assisted wide range ZVS three-phase AC link

current-fed dc/dc converter with active-clamp,” analysis, design and experimental results,” IEEE

IECON 2012, Montreal, Canada.

48. P. D. Dharmesh, A. K. Rathore, and X. Li, “Interleaved Zero-voltage-switching Active-clamped

Current-fed Full-bridge Isolated Dc/Dc Converter for Fuel Cell Applications: A Case Study Analysis,”

IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET) 2012, Nepal.

49. T. Boller, J. Holtz, and A. K. Rathore, “Neutral point potential balancing using synchronous optimal

pulsewidth modulation of multilevel inverters in medium voltage high power AC drives,” IEEE Energy

Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2012, Raleigh, USA.

50. A. K. Rathore and Prasanna UR, “Comparison of soft-switching voltage-fed and current-fed bi-

directional isolated dc/dc converters for fuel cell vehicles,” International Symposium on Industrial

Electronics (ISIE) 2012, 28-31 May 2012, China.

51. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, “Small signal analysis and control design of current-fed full-bridge

isolated dc/dc converter with active-clamp,” International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)

2012, 28-31 May 2012, China.

52. A. K. Rathore, “Hybrid micro-grid (μG) based residential utility interfaced smart energy system:

applications for green data centers and commercial buildings,” International Conference on Industrial

Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 18-20 July 2012, Singapore.

53. X. Li and A. K. Rathore, “Steady-state analysis of a dual-bridge LLC inverter,” International

Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 18-20 July 2012, Singapore.

54. A. K. Rathore and X. Li, "Comparison of zero-voltage-switching current-fed full-bridge and half-bridge

isolated dc/dc converters with active-clamp," IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics

and Drive Systems (PEDS 2011), Singapore, 5-8 Dec 2011.

55. Prasanna UR and A. K. Rathore, "Analysis and design of zero-voltage-switching current-fed isolated

full-bridge dc/dc converter," IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems

(PEDS 2011), Singapore, 5-8 Dec 2011.

56. A. K. Rathore and Prasanna U R, "Novel snubberless bi-directional ZCS/ZVS current-fed half-bridge

isolated dc/dc converter for fuel cell vehicles," IEEE International Conference of the Industrial

Electronics Society (IECON 2011), Melbourne, Australia, 07-11 Nov 2011.

57. A. K. Rathore, "Comparison and performance evaluation of renewable to grid integration schemes:

single-phase high-frequency fuel cells and PV inverters applications," IEEE Energy Conversion

Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2011), Phoenix, USA, 17-22 Sept 2011, pp. 1005-1012.

58. T. Boller, J. Holtz, and A. K. Rathore, "Optimal pulsewidth modulation of a dual three-level inverter

system operated from a single dc link," IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE

2011), Phoenix, USA, 17-22 Sept 2011, pp. 3406-3410.

59. A. K. Rathore, "High-frequency soft-switching current-fed inverter for off-grid micro-generation: fuel

cell application for rural electrification/development," European Conference on Power Electronics and

Applications (EPE 2011), Birmingham, UK, 30 Aug - 01 Sept 2011, pp. 1-10.

60. X. Li and A. K. Rathore, “A general study of soft-switching ranges of dual-bridge resonant converters

using a modified complex AC analysis approach”, International Conference on Industrial Electronics

and Applications (ICIEA), 21-23 June 2011, China.

61. S. Sun, X. Li, and A. K. Rathore, “Design and performance evaluation of a dual-bridge series-parallel

resonant converter”, International Conference on Power Electronics and Intelligent Transportation

Systems (PEITS), pp.179-182, Nov. 2010, China.

62. C. Zhao, X. Li and A. K. Rathore, “Modified complex Ac analysis of a LC-LC resonant converter with

secondary switching”, International Conference on Power Electronics and Intelligent Transportation

Systems (PEITS), pp.183-186, Nov. 2010, China.

63. A. K. Rathore, J. Holtz, and T. Boller, "Optimal pulsewidth modulation of multilevel inverters for low

switching frequency control of medium voltage high power industrial ac drives," IEEE Energy

Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Atlanta, USA, 12-16 Sept 2010, pp. 4569-4574.

64. S. Mazumder and A. K. Rathore, "Performance evaluation of a new hybrid modulation scheme for

high frequency ac link inverter: Applications for PV, wind, fuel cell, and DER/storage applications,"

IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Atlanta, USA, Sept 2010, pp. 2529-2534.

65. S. Mazumder and A. K. Rathore, "Novel zero-current switching current-fed half-bridge isolated dc/ dc

converter for fuel cell based applications," IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition

(ECCE), Atlanta, USA, 12-16 Sept 2010, pp. 3523-3529.

66. S. Mazumder and A. K. Rathore, "Impact of dc link pulse coding on the harmonic distortion of the

high-frequency ac link inverter," IEEE Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society

(IECON), Phoenix, USA, 7-10 Nov 2010.

67. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat, and R. Oruganti, "High-frequency current-fed fuel cell inverter for

residential use," IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy System (PEDES) Conference, India, 21-

23 Dec 2010.

68. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and Ramesh Oruganti “Wide range ZVS active-clamped L-L type current-

fed dc/dc converter for fuel cell to utility interface application,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and

Exposition (ECCE), San Jose, California, USA, Sept. 2009.

69. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and Ramesh Oruganti “Small signal analysis and closed loop control

design of L-L type active-clamped ZVS current-fed isolated dc/dc converter,” IEEE Canadian

Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Canada, May 2009.

70. A. K. Rathore and A. K. S. Bhat, “Comparison and selection of interfacing schemes for fuel cells to a

single-phase utility line” International Conference on Energy Engineering, Pondicherry, India, 2009.

71. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat, S. Nandi and Ramesh Oruganti “Closed loop Control design of two-

inductor current-fed isolated dc/dc converter for fuel cells to utility interface application,” IEEE Industry

Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), Edmonton, Canada, 2008.

72. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and R. Oruganti, "Analysis and design of active clamped ZVS current-fed

dc/dc converter for fuel cell to utility interface application," International Conference on Industrial and

Information Systems (ICIIS), Sri Lanka, 8-11 August 2007.

73. A. K. Rathore, A. K. S. Bhat and R. Oruganti, "A comparison of soft-switched dc/dc converters for fuel

cell to utility interface application," IEEE Power Conversion Conference (PCC), Japan, April 2007.

74. A. K. Rathore and S. N. Mahendra, "Direct secondary flux oriented control of linear induction motor

drive," IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Mumbai, India, December 2006.

75. A. K. Rathore and S. N. Mahendra, "Simulation of secondary flux oriented control of linear induction

motor considering attraction force & transverse edge effect," IEEE International Power Electronics

Congress (CIEP), Celaya, Mexico, 17-22 October 2004, pp. 158-163.

76. A. K. Rathore, "Improved performance of fuzzy logic based direct field oriented controlled induction

motor," IEEE International Power Electronics Congress (CIEP), Mexico, October 2004, pp. 152-157.

77. A. K. Rathore and S. N. Mahendra, "Decoupled control of attraction force & propulsion force in linear

induction motor drive," IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Maribor,

Slovenia, Vol. 1, 10-12 December 2003, pp. 524-529.

78. A. K. Rathore and S. N. Mahendra, "Modeling and simulation of linear induction motor transients

using MATLAB/SIMULINK," International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong, 6-10

June 2003.

TUTORIALS, INVITED SESSION PAPERS AND PRESENTATION

1. A. K. Rathore, “Soft-switching current-fed dc/dc converters for distributed generation and electric

transportation,” IEEE ICAEE 2014, India. (3 hours tutorial).

2. A. K. Rathore, “Naturally-clamped zero-current commutated soft-switching current-fed dc/dc

converters,” IEEE ICAEE 2014, India (1 hour Keynote).

3. A. K. Rathore, “Power Electronics for Fuel cell Vehicles,” ICATET 2013, India. (1 hour Keynote).

4. A. K. Rathore, "Novel Snubberless Naturally Clamped Soft-switching Bi-directional Current-fed

DC/DC Converters,” Delta-Q Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 30 October 2012.

5. A. K. Rathore, "Novel Snubberless Naturally Clamped Soft-switching Bi-directional Current-fed

DC/DC Converters,” Schneider Electric, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 31 October 2012, (1 hour

Seminar), organized by IEEE PELS Chapter-Vancouver, BC, Canada.

6. A. K. Rathore, "Soft-switching Current-fed Converters,” IEEE PEDES 2012, Bangalore

(90 minutes Tutorial).

7. A. K. Rathore, "Current-fed power converters for renewable energy, distributed generation, and clean

transportation,” IEEE ISIE 2012, China (3 hours Tutorial).

8. A. K. Rathore, "High-frequency Soft-switching Current-fed Converters for Low Voltage High Current

Applications: Growth, Merits, Challenges and Applications,” IEEE ICSET 2012, Nepal (3 hours Tutorial).

9. A. K. Rathore, “Future Hybrid-Grid Based Residential Smart Energy System: Idea of Smart-Grid”,

Guest Lecture, Rajasthan Technical University, India, April 2012.

10. A. K. Rathore, "Possible Renewable to Grid Integration Schemes Based on Power Conversion

Configurations,” Symposium on Information technology for Smart Grid Systems, Singapore, 2010.

11. A. K. Rathore, "High-frequency soft-switching power electronics systems for renewable energy based

power system," National University of Singapore, Singapore, 01 July 2010.

12. A. K. Rathore, "Optimal PWM control of medium voltage drives using multilevel inverters at low

switching frequency”, General Electric Research Centre, Bangalore, India, 2 July 2009.

13. A. K. Rathore, "Comparison of soft-switched dc-dc converters and design & control of wide range

ZVS dc-dc converter," ABB Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland, 18 June 2009.

14. A. K. S. Bhat and A. K. Rathore, "High-frequency transformer isolated power converters for fuel-cell to

utility interface," IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics, India, 2006.

15. A. K. Rathore, "MATLAB based analysis of linear induction motor based traction system," Short term

course on LIM based metro, organized by Indian Railway Institute of Electrical Engineering (IRIEEN),

Nasik, India, 2003.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial

Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Jan 2013 – till date

Associate Editor – IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topics in Power Electronics, May 2013-

Editor – IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, July 2014-

Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, June 2014-

Associate Editor – IET Power Electronics, April 2014-

Editor – Electrical Power Components and Systems, Sept 2013-

Associate Editor – International Journal of Power Electronics, Sept 2012-

Guest Editorial

Guest Associate Editor – IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Special Issue on Transportation Electrification and Vehicle Systems

Guest Associate Editor – IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topics on Power Electronics

Special Issue on Transportation Electrification

Guest Editor – Industrial Electronics for Electric Transportation, IEEE Transactions on Industrial

Electronics

Administrative Positions

1) Member: 2015 IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Young Member Award Committee

2) Vice-Chair: IEEE IES Technical Committee on Automotive Technologies

3) Secretary: IEEE IAS Industrial Automation and Control Committee (IACC)

Member of Technical Committees of various IEEE Societies

1) Technical Committee on High Performance and Emerging Technologies of IEEE PELS Society

2) Technical Committee on Vehicles and Transportation Systems of IEEE PELS Society

3) Technical Committee on Power Electronics of IEEE IES Society

4) Technical Committee of Automotive Technologies of IEEE IES Society

5) Industrial Automation and Control Committee of IEEE IAS Society

Conference Organizing Committee

1) Academic Liaison Chair (Nominated by IEEE IAS society), IEEE ITEC India, 2015, Chennai.

2) Topic Chair, Renewable and Sustainable Energy and Students Activity co-Chair, IEEE ECCE

2015, Montreal, Canada.

3) Topic Chair, Renewable Energy Systems, IEEE APEC 2015, Charlotte, NC, USA.

4) Technical Track Chair: Power Electronics, IEEE ISIE 2015, Brazil.

5) Technical Track Chair: Power Electronics, IEEE IECON 2015, Yokohama, Japan.

6) Topic Chair, Industrial Drives Committee, IEEE ECCE 2014, Pittsburgh, USA.

7) Technical Track Chair: Electric Transportation, IEEE IECON 2014, Dallas, USA

8) Technical Track Chair: Power Electronics, IEEE ISIE 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.

9) Technical Track Chair: Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, IEEE IECON 2013, Austria.

10) Technical Track Chair: Power Electronics and Energy Conversion, IEEE IECON 2012, Canada.

11) Track Chair: Two Special Sessions, IEEE IECON 2012, Montreal, Canada.

1) Power Converters and Control for Distributed Generation

2) Power Converters, Control, and Management in Electric and Fuel cell Vehicles

12) Technical Track Chair: IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy System (PEDS), 2013,

Kitakyushu, Japan.

13) Track Chair: Three Special Sessions, IEEE ICIT 2013, Capetown, South Africa.

1) Power Converters, Control, and Energy Management for Distributed Generation

2) Power Electronics, Motor Drives, and Energy Management in Electric and Fuel cell Vehicles

3) Renewable Energy Sources and their Integration to Grid Power Supply

14) Tutorial Chair: IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy System (PEDS), 2012, Singapore.

15) Tutorial Chair: IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET),

2012, Kathmandu, Nepal.

16) Technical Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing,

Communication, Computing and Networking Technologies (ICSCCN), 21-22 July 2011, India.

Reviewer of Journals and Conferences

1) IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

2) IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

3) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

4) IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

5) IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

6) IET Journals Renewable Power Generation

7) Journal of Electrical Power Components and Systems (Taylor and Francis)

8) International Journal on Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier)

9) IET Power Electronics

10) IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

11) Elsevier Journal of Renewable Energy

12) Reviewer of major IEEE Conferences: IECON, APEC, ECCE, ECCE ASIA, PEDES, PEDS,

ICSET, ISGT, IAS Annual Meeting