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Dr. Rohith Pottekkat

          Dr. Rohith Pottekkat received his Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2024, and an M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in power electronics and power systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, in 2013. He completed his B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Government Engineering College, Thrissur, India, in 2010.

       His current research focuses on standalone power supplies using induction generators. During his Ph.D., Rohith worked on hybrid multilevel inverter topologies for induction motor drives, concentrating on the elimination of lower-order harmonics and enhanced DC bus utilization. He has also undertaken power electronics and embedded systems projects, implementing hardware for motor drives and grid-connected inverter applications. His main areas of interest and technical expertise include power converter design, digital controller design, and embedded systems development for power electronics applications.

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Post-Doctoral Fellow

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rpottekk@cougarnet.uh.edu

Sai Sushma Pasupuleti

Sai Sushma Pasupuleti is a researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. She earned her M.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, where her work was recognized with the Best Thesis Award and the Ms. Kiran Bala Aurora Memorial Reward.
Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. Her research focuses on power electronic converters, pulsed power systems, PCB design, designing and control of magnetics, data driven methods for power electronic converters and motor drive applications. Sai Sushma’s recent work received support from the IES-SYP Travel Grant for IECON-2024, where she presented her latest research findings. She continues to engage in developing innovative solutions in power electronics and energy systems.

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Ph.D Student

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spasupu3@cougarnet.uh.edu

Shushan Qiu

Shushan Qiu earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, in 2019 and 2023 respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston in Houston, TX, USA. His research focuses on hardware-in-the-loop simulations for microgrids and the development of isolated DC-DC converters.

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Ph.D Student

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sqiu3@cougarnet.uh.edu

Qiushi Wang

Qiushi holds her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. Qiushi is pursuing her PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston while working as a professional engineer at AES Clean Energy. Her research interests include integration of renewable energy and system planning.

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Ph.D Student

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qwang45@cougarnet.uh.edu

Yingpei Li

Yingpei Li received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Electronic Sciene and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University (LU)  in 2019 and 2022 respectively. He is currently a Ph.D Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. His research interests include data-driven digital twins for health monitoring and predictive maintenance of power converters, and machine learning applications for enhanced digital twins.

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Ph.D Student

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yli143@cougarnet.uh.edu

Fan Jiang

Fan Jiang received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from North China Electric Power University in 2021 and 2024 seperately. She is currently a Ph.D Student in electrical engineering at the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. Her research interests include power system optimization and power system transient stability analysis.

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Ph.D Student

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fjiang6@uh.edu

Linhan Fang

Linhan Fang received the B.S. degree in Agricultural Electrification from Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China in 2023 and the M.S. degree in Energy Engineering from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China in 2024. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. His research interests include voltage regulation in distributed networks and power system reliability.

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Ph.D Student

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lfang7@cougarnet.uh.edu

Shivanshu Shekhar

Shivanshu Shekhar is a PhD candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, working in the PEMSEC lab, focusing on Power Electronics & Energy Storage systems for renewable energy and transportation applications. My research involves developing models for Energy Storage, Machine Learning, Digital Twin Modelling ,Power Converters and Optimization. I have prior experience with ML-based battery health prediction at UC3M Madrid and SoC estimation for Battery Management Systems in electric vehicles. I hold a master’s in Renewable Energy from IIT Jodhpur and a bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Looking forward to driving innovation in the power & energy storage field.

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Ph.D Student

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sshekha4@cougarnet.uh.edu

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Gaureej Gauttam

Gaureej Gauttam earned his Bachelor’s degree (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, India, in 2017, followed by a Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India, in 2021. From 2021 to 2022, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow at IIT Roorkee, India, where he focused on the design of wireless power transfer systems. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. His research interests include the design and analysis of DC-DC converters, high-frequency high-power-density converters, controller design for DC-DC converters, high-temperature power converters, and wireless power transfer.

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Ph.D Student

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ggauttam@cougarnet.uh.edu

Himanshu Patel

Born in India, in 1997. I received my B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the NIT Agartala, India, in 2018. I completed my B.Tech final year from IIT Madras, India as an exchange student in 2017-18. I completed my MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2024, specializing in Power Electronics Converters and Solid-State Transformer (SST) Technology for grid integration and motor drive applications. I was closely involved in several industrial projects like 2L-VSI and CHB Inverter-fed industrial motor drives, Transformerless MV propulsion drives, CHB-based SST Technology for MV grid integration in solar/wind power generation, EV charging stations, data centers, microgrids, distributed networks. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in PEMSEC lab at University of Houston. My research interests focus on Power Electronics Converter Technology for Long-Duration Battery Energy Storage Systems, SST Technology, and Power Electronics Converter Design.

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Post-Doctoral Fellow

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himanshuftp224@gmail.com