Mehrdad Kazerani, PEng

Dr. Mehrdad Kazerani is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His work spans teaching, theoretical and experimental research in the field of power electronics, and various administrative roles.

Dr. Kazerani’s research interests include the modeling and control of DC/DC converters, voltage-sourced and current-sourced converters, grid integration of renewable energy sources, plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles, energy storage systems, smart battery chargers with V2G capabilities, energy access, and microgrids. His work has been supported by a variety of governmental agencies, such as NSERC, ESTAC, Railpower, OCE, Automotive Partnership Canada, and Natural Resources Canada, as well as industry partners including Hydro One, GM, First Solar, Magna, and Hatch.

He has actively contributed to numerous multidisciplinary projects and has supervised/co-supervised a wide range of post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, visiting scholars, and undergraduate students in both research and Capstone design projects. In addition to his regular teaching, Dr. Kazerani teaches online graduate courses to power industry employees as part of the University of Waterloo's MEng in Power Engineering program.

Dr. Kazerani holds several patents and has authored or co-authored numerous journal and conference papers, as well as technical reports. A Senior Member of IEEE, he has served on several technical sub-committees, organized special sessions at IEEE conferences, and acted as an editor for several special sections and issues of IEEE Transactions, including the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

He has also been the faculty advisor for the University of Waterloo's Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT) and Formula Electric Vehicle team, and has served as an investigator for the Association of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). Dr. Kazerani is a registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario and has participated in review panels for national research foundations in several countries.

• power electronic converter modeling and control
• energy storage systems
• utility integration of renewable energy sources
• plugin electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles
• microgrids
• energy access
• energy efficiency

Research Interests, - power electronic converter topologies, - control of power electronic converters, - hybrid energy storage systems, - electrified vehicular powertrains, - renewable energy, - AC and DC microgrids., 1982 to 1987, with the Iranian Energy Ministry, director and lecturer in Ray Gas Turbine Training Center., 1988 to 1996, - Master's student at Concordia University, - PhD student and post-doctoral fellow at McGill University, Since 1997, - with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, In my university career, - on new faculty hiring and faculty tenure and promotion committees, - a referee for NSERC grant applications, - on NSF panel for grant applications ranking, - reviewer of conference and journal papers, - on graduate students' examinations committees, - external examiner for PhD theses, - special session organizer at conferences, - special section guest editor for journals, - on undergraduate and graduate study committees, - on ECE Department's research committee, - ECE Department's exchange program coordinator, - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Editor

• 1995, Doctorate Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Canada
• 1990, Master's Electrical Engineering, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada
• 1980, Bachelor's Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran

• 2004 $2,500 (USD)
• 2006 $10,000 (CAD)
• 2011 $23,205 (CAD)
• 2012 $2,500 (CAD)
• 2015 $12,500 (CAD)
• 2016 $22,000 (CAD)
• 2021 $2,500 (CAD)

• ECE 463 - Design & Applications of Power Electronic Converters
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024
• ECE 660 - Operation and Control of Future Integrated Energy Systems
  • Taught in 2023, 2024
• ECE 6611PD - Electric Machines and Motor Drives
  • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2024
• ECE 663 - Energy Processing
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• ECE 760 - Special Topics in Power Systems and High Voltage Engineering
  • Taught in 2022
• MTE 320 - Actuators & Power Electronics
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024
• MTE 420 - Power Electronics and Motor Drives
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Espina, Enrique and Cárdenas-Dobson, Roberto and Simpson-Porco, John W and Sáez, Doris and Kazerani, Mehrdad, A consensus-based secondary control strategy for hybrid AC/DC microgrids with experimental validation, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 5971, 2020
• Alharbi, Talal and Bhattacharya, Kankar and Kazerani, Mehrdad, Planning and operation of isolated microgrids based on repurposed electric vehicle batteries, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 4319, 2019
• Pape, Marten and Kazerani, Mehrdad, An offshore wind farm with DC collection system featuring differential power processing, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 222, 2019
• Allam, Mahmoud A and Hamad, Amr A and Kazerani, Mehrdad, A generic modeling and power-flow analysis approach for isochronous and droop-controlled microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 5657, 2018
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• Ostadi, Amir and Kazerani, Mehrdad, A comparative analysis of optimal sizing of battery-only, ultracapacitor-only, and battery--ultracapacitor hybrid energy storage systems for a city bus, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 4449, 2015
• Alnasir, Zuher and Kazerani, Mehrdad, A small-scale standalone wind energy conversion system featuring SCIG, CSI and a novel storage integration scheme, Renewable Energy, 360, 2016
• Olivares, Daniel E and Mehrizi-Sani, Ali and Etemadi, Amir H and Cañizares, Claudio A and Iravani, Reza and Kazerani, Mehrdad and Hajimiragha, Amir H and Gomis-Bellmunt, Oriol and Saeedifard, Maryam and Palma-Behnke, Rodrigo and others, Trends in microgrid control, IEEE Transactions on smart grid, 1905, 2014
• Olivares, Daniel E and Cañizares, Claudio A and Kazerani, Mehrdad, A centralized energy management system for isolated microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 1864, 2014