Lab News

2019

IEEE IAS Chapters and Membership Departent Chair Visiting

The IEEE Industry Applications Society Chapters and Membership Department Chair Dr. Peter Magyar (IEEE Life Fellow) visited University of Manitoba and RIGA Lab. He gave a seminar to introduce The IEEE Industry Applications Society and established the "University of Manitoba Student Branch IAS Chapter" with RIGA Lab's PhD student Ms Radwa Abdalaal, and Dr. Carl Ho was appointed as "SB Chapter Advisor" to promote the IEEE IAS and its professional activities.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Congratulate Yang Zhou and Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's MSc alumnus and PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics,
Y. Zhou, C. Ho, and K. Siu, “A Fast MPPT Control Technique using Boundary Controller for PV Applications”, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics.

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Best Student Team Regional Award of the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives 2019 competition in the Americas region

The RIGA lab’s project team “Winnie the Power” received “Best Student Team Regional Award” of the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives 2019 competition in the Americas region and qualified to participate in the Global Round at the ECCE2019. The project provides a very innovative and practical microgrid solution to help many people to have power and light. The project is being led by the PhD Student Dong Li. Congratulations!

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Click here to go to EBL2019.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics

Congratulate Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics,
K. Siu, C. Ho, and R. Li, “A Four-Quadrant Single-Phase Grid-Connected Converter with only Two High Frequency Switches”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics.

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A New MSc Thesis

Congratulate Avishek Ghosh, RIGA Lab's MSc student, on passing his MSc Thesis Oral Defense. Now, he becomes a PhD Student at RIGA Lab's continue the research on Power Electronics.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics

Congratulate Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
K. Siu, and C. Ho, “Manitoba Rectifier - Bridgeless Buck-Boost PFC”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications

Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications,
D. Li, and C. Ho, “A Method for Solving Current Unbalance Problem of Paralleled Single-Phase Grid-connected Unipolar-PWM Inverters with Common DC Bus”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications

Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications,
R. Abdalaal, C. Ho, C. Leung, and H. Chung, “A Remotely Central Dimming System for a Large-Scale LED Lighting Network Providing High Quality Voltage and Current”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications.

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A PhD Student was awarded the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF)

Congratulate the PhD Students Avishek Ghosh, on awarded the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowships for 3 years.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics

Congratulate Yanming Xu and Avishek Ghosh, RIGA Lab's PhD students, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “An Electrical Transient Model of IGBT-Diode Switching Cell for Power Semiconductor Loss Estimation in Electromagnetic Transient Simulation”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.

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Received two awards at the IEEE SEGE

Congratulate Ken King Man Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on received two awards at the IEEE SEGE,
1. Student Innovation Award "Power Electronics".
2. Best Paper Award 2019 – S8 Winner.
Click here to go to IEEE SEGE.

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The Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics Letter visited us

Prof. Yunwei (Ryan) Li, Professor at University of Alberta and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics Letter, visited RIGA Lab and provided a technical seminar entitled “Power Electronics Enabled Smart Grids” to our graduate students and local industry.

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A New PhD Thesis

Congratulate Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense. Now, he becomes a PostDoc Fellow at RIGA Lab's continue the research on Power Electronics.

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Renewed 5-year Term of Canada Research Chair

Dr. Carl Ho successfully renewed his Canada Research Chair in Efficient Utilization of Electric Power (10.2019 – 09.2024) with $500,000 funding.

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Received a 2018 Prize Paper Award for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

The RIGA's paper listed below has been awarded a Second Place Prize Paper Award for 2018 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
R. Li, C. Ho, and C. Xu “Active Virtual Ground - Single Phase Transformerless Grid-Connected Voltage Source Inverter Topology,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 1335 - 1346, Feb. 2018.

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A new accepted paper in the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
R. Abdalaal and C. Ho, “Characterization of Commercial LED Lamps for Power Quality Studies,” Can. J. Elect. Comput. Eng.,

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

Congratulate Dr. Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PostDoc Fellow, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
K. Siu and C. Ho, “System Model and Performance Evaluation of Single-Stage Buck-Boost Type Manitoba Inverter for PV Applications”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,

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A new PhD student

We are pleased to welcome Jalal Dadkhah as PhD Student of the RIGA Lab.

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A New MSc Thesis

Congratulate Zhuang Zhang, RIGA Lab's MSc student, on passing her MSc Thesis Oral Defense. Now, she is becoming an Electrical Engineer at Hatch Ltd., Canada.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

Congratulate Isuru Jayawardana, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
I. Jayawardana, C. Ho, and Y. He, “Boundary Control with Corrected Second-order Switching Surface for Buck Converters Connected to Capacitive Loads”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics

Congratulate Mandip Pokharel, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics,
M. Pokharel, and C. Ho, "Stability Analysis of Power Hardware in the Loop (PHIL) Architecture with Solar Inverter", IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics.

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Received The IEEE IAS CMD Outstanding New Chapter Award

Congratulate "The UM IEEE IAS Student Branch Chapter" received "The IEEE IAS CMD Outstanding New Chapter Award". The new formed group of research students did amazing work in the last one year. No it became a joint IEEE SB chapter Industry Application Society / Power and Energy Society / Power Electronics Society (IAS/PES/PELS).

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A New PhD Thesis

Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing her PhD Thesis Oral Defense.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics

Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
D. Li, and C. Ho, "A Module-Based Plug-n-Play Dc Microgrid with Fully Decentralized Control for IEEE Empower a Billion Lives Competition", IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics

Congratulate Dr. Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PostDoc Fellow, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
K. Siu, C. Ho, and D. Li, “Design and Analysis of a Bidirectional Hybrid Dc Circuit Breaker using Ac Relays with Long Life Time”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.

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Received the IEEE JESTPE Star Associate Editors Award

Congratulate Dr. Ho on received the award of the IEEE JESTPE Star Associate Editors,
Click here to go to IEEE PELS Award page.

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3 new MSc students

We are pleased to welcome Reza Alavi Eshkaftaki, Yin Fang and Troy Eskilson as MSc Students of the RIGA Lab.

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A new accepted paper in the CPSS Transaction on Power Electronics and Applications

Congratulate Dr. Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PostDoc Fellow, on publishing a paper in the CPSS Transaction on Power Electronics and Applications,
K. Siu, and C. Ho, “Generalized Design Approach of a Family of Grid-connected Converters Based on Active Virtual Ground Technique for Single-phase Ac Microgrid Applications”, CPSS Trans. Power Electronics and Applications.

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A New PhD Thesis

Congratulate Mandip Pokharel, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics

Congratulate Avishek, RIGA Lab's PhD student, with other RIGA Lab members on publishing a paper in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics,
A. Ghosh, C. Ho, J. Prendergast, and Y. Xu, “Conceptual Design and Demonstration of an Automatic System for Extracting Switching Loss and Creating Data Library of Power Semiconductors”, IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics.

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A New PhD Thesis

Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD Alumnus, on publishing a paper in the the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
D. Li, and C. Ho, “Decentralized PV-BES Coordination Control with Improved Dynamic Performance for Islanded Plug-n-Play Dc Microgrid”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron.,

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Congratulate Isuru Jayawardana, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics,
I. Jayawardana, C. Ho, M. Pokharel, and G. Escobar’ “A Fast-Dynamic Control Scheme for a Power-Electronics-Based PV Emulator,” IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid

Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD Alumnus, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. Smart Grid,
R. Abdalaal, and C. Ho, “Analysis and Validations of Modularized Distributed TL-UPQC systems with Supervisory Remote Management System”, IEEE Trans. Smart Grid.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications

Congratulate Yanming Xu, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications,
Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “Design, Implementation and Validation of Electro-Thermal Simulation for SiC MOSFETs in Power Electronic Systems”, Trans. on Industry Applications.

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A new accepted paper in the MDPI Energies

Congratulate Yanming Xu, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the MDPI Energies,
Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “Generalized Behavioral Modeling Methodology of Switch-Diode Cell for Power Loss Prediction in Electromagnetic Transient Simulation”, Energies.

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A New MSc Thesis

Congratulate Hafis Umar-Lawal, RIGA Lab's MSc student, on passing his MSc Thesis Oral Defense.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics

Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD Alumnus, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics,,
R. Abdalaal, and C. Ho, “System Modeling and Stability Analysis of Single-Phase Transformerless UPQC Integrated Input Grid Voltage Regulation”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Ind. Electron.

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A new accepted paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

Congratulate Isuru Jayawardana, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,,
I. Jayawardana, C. Ho, and Y. Zhang, “A Comprehensive Study and Validation of a Power-HIL Testbed for Evaluating Grid-Connected EV Chargers”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron.

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A new MSc student

We are pleased to welcome Patrick Beasley as a MSc Student of the RIGA Lab.

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A New PhD Thesis

Congratulate Yanming Xu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense.

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Received the IEEE JESTPE Star Reviewer Award

Congratulate Dr. Siu on received the award of the IEEE JESTPE Star Reviewer in 2020. Dr. Siu currently is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, USA, and a key collaborator of the RIGA. He was a PostDoc Fellow at the RIGA lab in 2020.

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Received the 2020 Excellent Associate Editor Award of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE)

Congratulate Dr. Ho on received the 2020 Excellent Associate Editor Award of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE),

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A New PhD Thesis

Congratulate Isuru Jayawardana, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense.

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Appointed as an expert member of the Academic Advisory Group of PECTA

Dr. Carl Ho has been appointed as an expert member of the Academic Advisory Group of Power Electronic Conversion Technology Annex (PECTA) of the IEA 4E (Energy Efficient End-use Equipment) Technology Collaboration Program (TCP). The Annex is led by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.