Electric vehicles faculty

Ayyanar’s research interests include power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide bandgap devices

Fan’s current research is in the areas of semiconductors and phase-change materials for electronics and photonics such as neuromorphic devices and tunable photonic devices; nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storages.

Yoon Hwa is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE) at Arizona State University (ASU). He is also the graduate faculty in the materials science and engineering program and chemical engineering program within the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) at ASU.Hwa’s research group aims to develop a new research paradigm for energy technologies, which seeks to identify the most effective solutions to overcome the current major challenges. Two focused research areas are: (1) developing new energy material synthesis methodologies, (2) micro- to nano-scale device architecture design and manufacturing. 

Duong Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2020, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Bhargava. His research lies at the intersection of operations research, artificial intelligence, economics, and engineering, with a focus on developing new mathematical models and techniques for decision-making and economic analysis of large-scale networked systems such as cloud/edge computing, smart grids, and crowdsourcing. His goals are (1) to design optimal operation and planning algorithms for complex systems under uncertainty,…

Anamitra Pal leads the Phasor Assisted Learning (PAL) Lab at ASU and does research in the areas of power systems data analytics, renewable integration, and critical infrastructure resilience.

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 of…

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.

Weng’s research interests include power systems, machine learning, demand response, data analytics, cyber-physical systems and convex optimization.

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 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….