Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2014)

• University of Nevada, Reno
  Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering

• Advisor: Professor Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski

Research Interests

• DSP-based Control of Energy Conversion Systems

• Power Electronics Circuits and their Applications in Renewable Energy Systems

• Distributed Generation and Microgrids

• Electric Drives

• Electric/ Hybrid & Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles

Publications

• Book Chapter

  • "Matrix Converters" in Power Electronic Converters and Systems: Frontiers and Applications, to be published by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET).

  
  

• Papers

  • M. Farasat, A. M. Trzynadlowski, M. S. Fadali, "An efficiency improved sensorless control scheme for electric vehicle induction motors", IET Electrical Systems in Transportation (to appear).

  • E. Karaman, M. Farasat, A. M. Trzynadlowski, "Indirect matrix converters as generator-grid interfaces for wind energy systems", IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (to appear).

  • M. Farasat, A. Arabali and A.M. Trzynadlowski, "Flexible-voltage DC-bus operation for reduction of switching losses in all-electric ship power systems", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 6151-6161, Nov. 2014.

  • E. Karaman, M. Farasat, A.M. Trzynadlowski, "A comparative study of series and cascaded Z-source matrix converters", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 5164-5173, Oct. 2014.

  • E. Karaman, M. Farasat, A.M. Trzynadlowski, "Permanent-Magnet Synchronous-Generator Wind-Energy Systems with Boost Matrix Converters", in Proc. Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 2977-2981, Denver, Colorado, USA, Sep. 2013.

  • M. Farasat, A. Arabali, A.M. Trzynadlowski, "A Novel Control Principle for All-Electric Ship Power Systems", in Proc. IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS), pp. 178-184, Arlington, Virginia, USA, Apr. 2013.

  • E. Karaman, M. Farasat, A.M. Trzynadlowski, "Matrix Converter with a Series Z- Source", in Proc. 38th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), pp.6093-6098, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2012.

  • M. Farasat, E. Karaman, A.M. Trzynadlowski, M.S. Fadali, "Speed Sensorless Instantaneous Power Control of Induction Motor Drives", in Proc. 38th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), pp. 2018-2023, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2012.

  • E. Karaman, M. Farasat, A.M. Trzynadlowski, "A 3Φ-3Φ Quasi Z-Source Matrix Converter for Residential Wind Energy Systems", in Proc. Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 240-246, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Sep. 2012.

  • M. Farasat, E. Karaman, A.M. Trzynadlowski, M. S. Fadali, "Hybrid Field Orientation and Direct Torque Control for Electric Vehicle Motor Drive with an Extended Kalman Filter", IEEE EnergyTech Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, May 2012.

  • E. Karaman, M. Farasat, F. Niu, A.M. Trzynadlowski, "Three-phase to Single-phase Super-sparse Matrix Converters", in Proc. Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) 2012, pp. 1061-1066, Orlando, Florida, USA.

  • M. Farasat, E. Karaman, "Speed Sensorless Electric Vehicle Propulsion System Using Hybrid FOC-DTC Induction Motor Drive", International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems 2011 (ICEMS), Beijing, China.

  • M. Farasat, E. Karaman, "Efficiency-Optimized Hybrid Field Oriented and Direct Torque Control of Induction Motor Drive", International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems 2011 (ICEMS), Beijing, China.

  • A. Daghigh, M. B. B. Sharifian, M. Farasat, "A Modified Direct Torque Control of IPM Synchronous Machine Drive with Constant Switching Frequency and Low Ripple in Torque", in Proc. 18th Iranian conference on electrical engineering, pp. 778-783, Isfahan, Iran, May 2010.

  • M. Farasat, N. Rostami, M. R. Feyzi, "Speed Sensorless Hybrid Field Oriented and Direct Torque Control of Induction Motor Drive for Wide Speed Range Applications", in Proc. 1st Power Electronic & Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC), pp. 243-248, Tehran, Iran, February 2010.

  • A. Yazdanpanah Goharrizi, M. Farasat, A. Khoshkbar Sadigh, S. H. Hosseini,"A Half Bridge Inverter with Soft Switching Auxiliary Circuit for Induction Cooking Applications", in Proc. 1st Power Electronic & Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC), pp. 80-84, Tehran, Iran, February 2010.

  • A. Khoshkbar Sadigh, S. H. Hosseini, M. Farasat, E. Mokhtarpur Habashi,"Voltage Flicker Mitigation with Dynamic Voltage Restorer", in Proc. 1st Power Electronic & Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (PEDSTC), pp. 388-392, Tehran, Iran, February 2010.

  • S. H. Hosseini, A. Khoshkbar Sadigh, M. Farasat, "A New 2-cell Shunt Active Power Filter with Compensation Principle Based on Synchronous Reference Frame", in Proc. International Telecommunications Energy Conference (Intelec), pp. 1-6, Incheon, South Korea, October 2009.

  • A. Khoshkbar Sadigh, E. Babaei, S. H. Hosseini, M. Farasat, "Dynamic Voltage Restorer Based on Stacked Multicell Converter", in Proc. IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA), pp. 778-783, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 2009.

Teaching

• EE 4422 Electric Machine Design (Fall 2014)

Announcements

• Open positions with graduate research/teaching assistantships are available for doctoral students with specialty in power electronics and/or electric drives field(s). A working knowledge of DSP-based control of energy conversion systems, including C/C++ programming is necessary.