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Industry Speaker

Manmath Kumar Badapanda

Head, RF Power Supplies Section and a Board Member at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, India

Title of Presentation: A low ripple 36 kV, 24 A crowbarless DC power converter for biasing sensitive RF amplifiers 

Manmath Kumar Badapanda is working as Head, RF Power Supplies Section and a Board Member at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, a premier Research and Development organization under Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He has original and innovative contributions, having granted US patent No. 10027122B2 and Indian patent No. 436206, as their sole inventor and transferred several crucial technologies to industries, with impressive techno-commercial impacts. He has demonstrated exemplary technical leadership for advancement and development of power converter technology and has unique credibility that more than 500 number of his power converters (up to 100 kV, 25 A DC and 250 kV, 250 A pulsed), are in 24/7 and 365 days operations with various Indian national facilities, for more than a decade. He has published 145 papers in peer reviewed journals & conferences and delivered nearly 40 invited talks in India, South Korea, Spain, Germany and Switzerland, etc.

He is a Senior Member, IEEE; Fellow, The Institution of Engineers (India) and Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, India. He is Chair, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society; Chair, IEEE Power Electronics Society; IEEE Industry Applications Society; Chair, IEEE Systems Councils of Madhya Pradesh Chapter as well as Chair, Industry Relations Committee; Chair, Awards and Recognition Committee and Vice Chair of IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section, India during 2022-2025. Under his leadership, IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section, India has received “Best Membership Growth Medium Section Award-2022” and “Outstanding Medium Section Award-2023” from IEEE Region-10 (Asia-Pacific) and IEEE Power Electronics Society Madhya Pradesh Chapter, India has received “Best PELS Medium Chapter Award-2025” from IEEE Power Electronics Society.  He is a Member, Project Evaluation and Monitoring Committee for Indo-Taiwan Science and Technology Cooperation Program of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Panel Adviser, Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi, India. He has received a dozen of prestigious awards including “Technologist of the Year-2023” from the IEEE India Council, India; “Research Excellence Award-2023” from The Institution of Engineers (India), two numbers of IEEE section Awards and four numbers of “Department of Atomic Energy Awards for Excellence in Science, Engineering and Technology” from the Government of India, in the year 2008, 2013, 2016, 2017 & so on.

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Majid Pahlevani

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University

Keynote: Influence of Power Electronic Controls on Grid Stability

Majid Pahlevani (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2012. From 2008 to 2011, he collaborated with Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., where he was the Leader of a research team working on the design and implementation of the power converters for a pure electric vehicle. From 2011 to 2016, he was the Chief R&D Engineer, VP of Technology, and then, the CTO at SPARQ Systems, Inc. At SPARQ, he invented multiple innovative power circuitry and digital control techniques for SPARQ’s main product, QUAD microinverter. From 2016 to 2019, he was an Assistant Professor with the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University. He has conducted more than 20 industrial projects in renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, electric vehicles, and LED lighting. He has authored or coauthored more than 250 journal and conference proceeding papers and is the holder of 100 U.S. Patents (issued/pending).

Dr. Pahlevani is also an Associate Editor for IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS and a Member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He was the recipient of numerous awards, such as the “Early Research Excellence Award” from Alberta, Canada, “Research Achievement Award” and multiple “Teaching Achievement Award” from the University of Calgary and Queen’s University, “Engineering and Applied Sciences Outstanding Thesis” Award from Queen’s University, “Research Excellence Award” from IEEE Canada, and “Distinguished Research Award” from the University of Calgary.

Power electronics is the key technology for many existing and emerging applications such as renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, energy storage systems, LED lighting, telecommunication systems, etc. Power electronics technology primarily includes power electronic circuitry and control systems. Although power circuits perform the required power conversions, the control system is what is controlling the conversion. Thus, the control system is an integral part of this technology, which directly determines the system performance. Power circuits have reached some level of maturity within the last few decades, offering very high conversion efficiencies thanks to high-performance power semiconductors and highly efficient power circuit topologies. In contrast, the advancement in control systems for power electronics has only been restricted to scientific articles and traditional linear controllers are dominant in existing industrial power electronic converters for the most part. Traditional linear controllers cannot effectively deal with nonlinearities in power electronic converters. Thus, they result in suboptimal performance and minimal stability margins.

The main focus of this talk is to present new differential geometric control techniques tailored for power electronics technology. Differential geometry is the foundation of nonlinear control theory, and thus it can be used to effectively capture nonlinear behavior of power electronic converters. The proposed framework provides advanced tools to derive nonlinear models and design control techniques for power electronic converters on manifolds, where their nonlinear behavior can be fully characterized, accurate stability margins can be investigated, and optimal performance can be achieved.

Professor Praveen Jain

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University Kingston, ON, Canada

Keynote: Resonant Power Conversion in Renewable Energy Systems

Professor Praveen K. Jain (Fellow IEEE) received his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto in 1984 and 1987 respectively. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics, and Director of the Centre for Energy and Power Electronics Research at Queen’s University. He made pioneering contributions in introducing resonant power conversion technology in telecommunications during his work at Nortel in the 1990’s. He played a key role in the design and development of high frequency power conversion equipment for the International Space Station at Canadian Astronautics in the late 1980’s. Over the last 35 years, he has made sustained contributions to the theory and practice of power electronics through his considerable consulting work with industry. He is the founder of two successful start-up companies, CHiL Semiconductor in digital power controller (acquired by International Rectifier), and SPARQ Systems in the area of photovoltaic microinverters and energy storage. He has supervised and guided over 100 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and power electronics engineers. He has published over 600 papers and holds over 100 patents. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, the 2017 IEEE Canada Electric Power Medal, the 2011 IEEE William Newell Power Electronics Award, and the 2004 Engineering Medal of the Ontario Professional Engineers. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Society of Canada, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Renewable energy offers a viable solution to significantly reduce emissions and meet stringent climate goals. The widespread adoption of renewable energy has expanded at a steady pace due to its competitiveness with conventional sources of energy. However, there are still many technological challenges that remain related to their controllability and reliability. Power electronics is the key technology for renewable energy systems, and advances in power electronics in the last few decades have enabled this vast pool of energy to be available to mankind.

This presentation highlights some of the work that the authors have performed in the field of resonant power conversion for nearly the past 40 years. The work presented here is based on practical resonant converters developed for real products, which are currently used in the market. The main focus will be on soft-switched resonant power circuit topologies and advanced control systems, which are instrumental in high-performance and highly reliable products for renewable energy systems. Finally, the presentation will shed some light on how to transcend resonant power converters to enable renewable energy sources to directly connect to transmission systems, eliminating many power conversion stages.