Lab News

2015

14.12.2015

University Research Grants Program (URGP) funding

Dr. Carl Ho was funded $7,500 as a seed funding through the University Research Grants Program (URGP) to start a research project of Highly Efficient Power Electronics Converters using WBG semiconductors.

01.12.2015

New PhD student

We are pleased to welcome King Man Siu as a PhD Student of the RIGA Lab.

06.10.2015

An invited talk

A invited talk was given by Dr. Carl Ho at the Power Quality & Advanced Technologies Interest Group (PQAT) 2015 Fall General Meeting, Winnipeg, Canada.
Talk: An Effective Power Quality Conditioner for Steady-state and Transient Power Quality Issues.

28.09.2015

A visting scholar

Prof. Drazen Dujic (EPFL, Switzerland) has visited the RIGA Lab for 3 days and gave one public seminar and one guest lecture for Dr. Ho’s course (ECE 7440 Applied Power Electronics) about the latest Power Electronics Technologies including Power Electronic Traction Transformers and MMC converters.

01.09.2015

a new MSc student

We are pleased to welcome Dong Li as a MSc Student of the RIGA Lab.

01.07.2015

a new MSc student

We are pleased to welcome Andy Zhou as a MSc Student of the RIGA Lab.

09.06.2015

An invited Seminar

An invited Seminar was given by Dr. Carl Ho at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Seminar: Introduction of Power Grids and Solar Inverters.

04.05.2015

Two Mitacs summer students

Two Undergraduate students, Marc Pelland and Luo Liu, joined the research team as summer students from 4.5.2015 to 21.8.2015 with Scholarship of “Undergraduate Research Award”.