Current Students:
Yuhang Deng
yuhang@caps.fsu.edu
Yuhang Deng is a Ph.D student in the ECE department at Florida State University. He received
his B.S and M.S in electrical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin,
Heilongjiang, China, in 2003 and 2005 respectively. His current research area is Bidirectional
DC-DC converter interfacing with energy storage elements for electric
vehicles using Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Concept.
Zhichao Wu
zcwu@caps.fsu.edu
Zhichao Wu is a Ph.D. student in Electrical&Computer Engineering Department at the Florida
State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, China, in 2002, and 2005, respectively. His current
research interest is Hybrid Grid-Interactive Converter Used in Small Distributed Generation.
Lei Wang
lwang@caps.fsu.edu
Lei Wang is a Ph.D student in the ECE department at Florida State University. He received his
B.S from Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. , Shanghai, and M.S from Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China,
both in electrical engineering, in 1996 and 2002 respectively. His current research area is
Hybrid energy storage elements and optimized DC-DC converters in Fuel cell vehicle and
hybrid electric vehicle application.
Zhan Wang
zwang@caps.fsu.edu
Zhan Wang is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Florida State University. He received
his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2002 and 2005,respectively. From 2005 to 2007,he worked as a
research engineer at SANTAK Electronics(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, China. His current
research interest is multi-port, multi-phase DC-DC converter.
Haifeng Fan
fan@caps.fsu.edu
Haifeng Fan is a Ph.D. student in the ECE department at Florida State University. He received
his B.S from Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, and M.S from Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China, both in electrical engineering, in 2001 and 2004 respectively.
From 2004 to 2005, he worked as an electrical engineer at Celestica (Shanghai) R&D Center.
From 2004 to 2008, he worked as an electrical supervisor at Delta (Shanghai) Power
Electronics Design Center. His current research interest is power electronics application in
future renewable electric energy delivery and management system.
Passinam Tatcho
tatcho@caps.fsu.edu
Passinam Tatcho is a Master student in the ECE department at Florida State University (FSU).
She received her B.S in Electrical Engineering from FSU in 2008. Her current research area
includes microgrids protection modeling and simulation, as well as renewable energy sources.
Liming Liu
liming@caps.fsu.edu
Dr. Liming Liu is currently a post doctor in Center of Advanced Power System at Florida State
University. He received his B.S. and M.S. of Engineering in Electrical Engineering degree from
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree
in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
in 2006. His research interests include multilevel converters with hybrid energy systems, motor
drive control, mode ing and simulation of power electronics system, power electronics
application in power system.
Danwei Liu
ldw2005@gmail.com
Danwei Liu is currently a design engineer at Vicor Corporation. He received his B.S. of
Engineering in Electrical Engineering degree from Hubei University of technology, Wuhan,
China in 1999 and M.S. of Engineering in Electrical Engineering degree from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China in 2002, respectively. He received his
Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida in
2006. His research interests include renewable energy power conversion, high power density
high efficiency DC-DC and AC-DC converter.
Da Zhang
zd_david@yahoo.com
Da Zhang is currently a senior engineer at Carrier, A United Technologies Company. He
received his B.S. of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,
China in 2001. He received his M.S. of Engineer and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida in 2003 and 2006, respectively. His research
interests include motor drives, renewable energy power conversion, digital controls and power
factor correction.
Sardis Azongha
azongha@caps.fsu.edu
Sardis Azongha is currently a PhD student in the ECE Department at FAMU-FSU College of
Engineering. He received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University
in 2004. His current research interests include the use of ultra-capacitor energy storage in
motor drive applications with cascaded multilevel inverters.
2. Kaijam Woodley, Summer 2004, Co-supervisor, Thesis Title: ¡° Neural Network Modeling of Estimation and Transformation Parameters¡± (Co-supervise with Dr. Foo)