Contact Information
Email: mkazerani@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x33737
Location: EIT 4171
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Senior Member, IEEE
Dr. Mehrdad Kazerani is an expert in power electronics, with a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. His research areas include topology development, modeling and control of converters for renewable energy sources integration, electrified powertrains, hybrid energy storage systems, smart battery chargers with V2G capability, energy access and microgrids.
Dr. Kazerani supervises graduate students within masters and doctoral programs in Electrical Engineering. His students have developed microgrid solutions for remote communities, power electronic interfaces for small-scale wind turbines and efficient collection systems for large-scale off-shore wind farms, hybrid energy storage systems for electric vehicles, and reconfiguration techniques for reducing the impact of partial shading in solar PV panels. He has collaborated with researchers from other departments within the University of Waterloo and other universities in multidisciplinary projects.
Selected Publications:
- Marten Pape and Mehrdad Kazerani, “An Offshore Wind Farm with DC Collection System Featuring Differential Power Processing”, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 35, Issue 1, pp. 222-236, March 2020.
- Mahmoud A. Allam, Amr A. Hamad andMehrdad Kazerani, “A Sequence-Component-Based Power-Flow Analysis for Unbalanced Droop-Controlled Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 1248-1261, July 2019.
- M. Restrepo, J. Morris, M. Kazerani and C. Canizares, “Modeling and Testing of a Bidirectional Smart Charger for Distribution System EV Integration”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 152-162, January 2018.