Electric vehicles faculty
Electric vehicles
Electric vehicle, or EV, technology has rapidly advanced in the last 15 years. EVs have grown from a minimal share of car sales encompassing a small number of compact models to an array of choices across automotive segments. EVs are also now championed by governments worldwide for transportation decarbonization.
Electrical engineering faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University are researching EV technologies such as batteries, power electronics, motors and more.
Raja Ayyanar
Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Ayyanar’s research interests include power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide bandgap devices
Mike Ranjram
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Dr. Ranjram received the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 2021. In 2022, he joined the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering. His present research interests include system- and component-level techniques for miniaturizing power electronic converters, and the application of these techniques to enable the next generation of sustainable systems and devices. He has also previously worked on modular power electronic converters for high-voltage dc transmission and battery energy storage systems for dc microgrids. Dr. Ranjram is a recipient…
Meng Tao
Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Tao’s research interests range from semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films; terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics to two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides and chemical vapor deposition.
Yang Weng
Associate Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Weng’s research interests include power systems, machine learning, demand response, data analytics, cyber-physical systems and convex optimization.
Hongbin Yu
Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Yu’s areas of expertise range from nanostructure and nano device fabrication and characterization, wide bandgap semiconductor electronic and optoelectronics to wearable electronics.
Yong-Hang Zhang
Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Yong-Hang Zhang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Photonics Innovation at ASU. His primary research is on the growth, fabrication and characterization of novel optoelectronic materials and devices with focus on narrow-gap semiconductors, IR detectors, and solar cells. His recent work focuses on type-II superlattice and IR detectors and heterovalent semiconductor integration (such as II-VI, IV-VI, IV-IV and III-V) for lsaer, detector and solar cells applications. He did his thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Solid States Research and received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 1991….