FACULTY MAHSHID AMIRABADI Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD, Texas A&M University, 2013 ece.neu.edu/people/amirabadi-mahshid Scholarship focus: design, modeling and control of power converters, power electronics for renewable energy systems, microgrids, variable speed drives, and wireless power transfer
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS S.A.KH. Mozaffari Niapour, M. Amirabadi Extremely Sparse Parallel AC-Link Universal Power Converters, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(3), 2016, 2456-2466 M. Amirabadi, H. A. Toliyat, J. Baek Bidirectional Soft-switching Series AC-link Inverter, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 51, 2015, 2312-2320 M. Amirabadi, J. Baek, H.A. Toliyat, W.C. Alexander Soft-switching AC-link threephase AC-AC Buck-Boost Converter, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 62, 2015, 3-14 M. Amirabadi Extremely Sparse Parallel AC-link Universal Power Converters, Proceedings of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2014, 1534-1541 M. Amirabadi, A. Balakrishnan, H. Toliyat, W.C. Alexander High Frequency AC-link PV Inverter, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61, 2014, 281-291 M. Amirabadi, J. Baek, H.A. Toliyat Sparse AC-link Buck-boost Inverter, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 29, 2014, 3942-3953 M. Amirabadi, H. A. Toliyat, W.C. Alexander A Multi-port AC Link PV Inverter with Reduced Size and Weight for Stand-alone Application, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 49, 2013, 2217-2228
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS A Novel Inverter for Wireless Charging Principal Investigator, Korea Railroad Research Institute A Reliable PV Inverter for Reducing the Overall Cost of Residential PV Systems Principal Investigator, The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center at UMass
TEIICHI ANDO Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PhD, Colorado School of Mines, 1982 mie.neu.edu/people/ando-teiichi Scholarship focus: rapid solidification processing, droplet-based materials processing, powder metallurgy, material processing by severe plastic deformation, processing-structure-property relationships in materials Honors and awards: Fellow, American Society of Materials International; Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS S. Onell, T. Ando Application of a Simple Sub-regular Solution Model to the Computation of Phase Boundaries and Free-dendritic Growth in the Ag-Cu System, Acta Mater, 113, 2016,109-115 B. Yildirim, H. Fukunuma, T. Ando, A. Gouldstone, S. Muftu A Numerical Investigation into Cold Spray Bonding Processes, Journal of Tribology, 137, 2015, 11102-11113 S. Gheybi Hashemabad, T. Ando Ignition Characteristics of Hybrid Al-Ni-Fe2O3 and Al-NiCuO Reactive Composites Fabricated by Ultrasonic Powder Consolidation, Combustion and Flame, 162, 2015, 1144-1152 T. Hu, S. Zhalehpour, A. Gouldstone, S. Muftu, T. Ando A Method for the Estimation of the Interface Temperature in Ultrasonic Joining, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 45A, 2014, 2545-2552 D. Erdeniz, T. Ando Fabrication of Micro/Nano Structured Aluminum-Nickel Energetic Composites by Ultrasonic Powder Consolidation, International Journal of Materials Research, 104(4), 2013, 387-391 T. Ando Production, Characterization and Application of Mono-size Alloy Droplets, Powder Metallurgy, 55(5), 2012, 395-401 S. Onel, T. Ando Comparison and Extension of Free Dendritic Growth Models with Application to Ag-15at.%Cu Alloy, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 39A, 2008, 2449-58
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS Production of Porous Aluminum and High Colbalt WC-Co Composites Principal Investigator, Hitachi Metals, Ltd Metallographic Characterization of Cold Sprayed Materials Principal Investigator, Fukuda Metal Foil Engineered Materials and Materials Design of Engineered Materials Co-Principle Investigator, ARL
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