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Rishad Ahmed

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering

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I am an Assistant Professor in Power Electronics within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham. I investigate the key technologies underpinning the emerging powertrain systems of the future electric vehicles and more-electric aircrafts. My main research focus is in high-frequency and high-power-density power converters and packaging of semiconductor devices. Within these areas, the following are of particular interest:

  • Integrated power conversion for electric vehicle and aerospace applications
  • High power density power electronics for low carbon systems
  • Wide band gap semiconductor devices (SiC and GaN)
  • DCDC converter topologies and resonant converters
  • Inductive power transfer system
  • Advanced thermal management and packaging for high-frequency converters
  • Advanced control of converters
  • Battery modelling and health management
  • HVDC system and converters
  • High speed drives

Prior to joining the University of Nottingham I spent 2.5 years working in Research and Development for Dynex Semiconductor. I was a senior design engineer of automotive power electronics. I led the research and development of on-board charger and DCDC converter products for electric vehicles. I played a leading role in many rewarding projects such as vehicle to grid power transfer capable on-board charger development for future intelligent integration of electric vehicles into the greater power system, develop simulation models for analysing the performance of different full electrical and hybrid powertrain systems including fuel-cell EV powertrain systems, low-inductive SiC MOSFET full-bridge module development, 400V to 12V DCDC converter development targeting 2 kW / litre power density and 400V to 800V DCDC converter development targeting 99% efficiency and 30 kW / litre power density.

I received the B.Sc. degree from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree (with Distinction) and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 2013 and 2017, respectively. From Sept. 2013 to Feb. 2014 I also worked as a Research Assistant at Cardiff University in the Emerson Control Techniques Multilevel Drive Research Project.

Teaching Summary

EEEE4118- Advanced Power Electronics

EEEE3083- Power Electronic applications and control

EEEE2071 - 2nd-year energy project' module

Research Summary

Integrated power conversion for electric vehicle and aerospace applications, high power density power electronics for low carbon systems, wide band gap devices (SiC and GaN) - packaging, modelling,… read more

Selected Publications

Current Research

Integrated power conversion for electric vehicle and aerospace applications, high power density power electronics for low carbon systems, wide band gap devices (SiC and GaN) - packaging, modelling, reliability and applications, DCDC converter topologies, resonant converters, control, battery modelling and health management, HVDC, high speed drives, wireless power transfer, advanced thermal management and packaging for high-frequency converters.

I welcome enquiries from potential Mphil and PhD candidates from Home, EU and international countries who are interested in the above research areas. Candidates interested- please email me your CV directly.

  • MUSTAFA, UVAIS, AHMED, RISHAD, WATSON, ALAN, WHEELER, PATRICK, AHMED, NASEER and DAHELE, PARMJEET, 2023. A Comprehensive Review of Machine-Integrated Electric Vehicle Chargers ENERGIES. 16(1),
  • KOUGIOULIS, IOANNIS, PAL, ANIRBAN, WHEELER, PATRICK and AHMED, MD RISHAD, 2023. An Isolated Multiport DC-DC Converter for Integrated Electric Vehicle On-board Charger IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. 1-1
  • KOUGIOULIS, IOANNIS, PAL, ANIRBAN, WHEELER, PATRICK and AHMED, MD RISHAD, 2023. An Isolated Multiport DC-DC Converter for Integrated Electric Vehicle On-board Charger IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. 1-1
  • KOUGIOULIS, IOANNIS, WHEELER, PATRICK and AHMED, MD RISHAD, 2022. An Integrated On-Board Charger and Auxiliary Power Module for Electric Vehicles In: 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC). 1162-1169
  • GUICHARROUSSE, PABLO, RISHAD AHMED, MD., WHEELER, PATRICK and ZANCHETTA, PERICLE, 2022. New approach for comparing Modular Multilevel Converter submodule losses considering IGBT and SiC MOSFET devices In: IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 1-6
  • CHEN, QINLONG, AHMED, MD RISHAD and KLUMPNER, CHRISTIAN, 2022. Analysis and Design of UCVB soft-switching buck-boost Converter for energy storage system In: 2022 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications in Europe (WiPDA Europe). 1-6
  • SHAHJALAL, MOHAMMAD, SHAMS, TAMANNA, TASNIM, MOSHAMMED NISHAT, AHMED, MD RISHAD, AHSAN, MOMINUL and HAIDER, JULFIKAR, 2022. A Critical Review on Charging Technologies of Electric Vehicles ENERGIES. 15(21),
  • SHAHJALAL, MOHAMMAD; AHMED, MD RISHAD; LU, HUA; BAILEY, CHRIS; FORSYTH, ANDREW;, 2020. An analysis of the thermal interaction between components in power converter applications IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
  • ANUCHIN, ALECKSEY, SHPAK, DMITRY, AHMED, MD RISHAD, STOLYAROV, EVGENIY, SURNIN, DIMID and ACEDO, JAIME PANDO, 2020. Nested Loop Control of a Buck Converter under Variable Input Voltage and Load Conditions In: 2020 55th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 1-5
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD, LI, YUN, TODD, REBECCA and FORSYTH, ANDREW J, 2019. Practical Comparison of ZVZCS Interleaved Boost Converters with SiC Devices In: 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC). 2286-2293
  • AHMED, MR, WEI, X and LI, Y, 2019. Enhanced Models for Current-Mode Controllers of the Phase-Shifted Full Bridge Converter with Current Doubler Rectifier In: 2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019-ECCE Asia). 3271-3278
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD and LI, YUN, 2019. A low-cost, high-power-density DC-DC converter for hybrid and electric vehicle applications In: 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'19 ECCE Europe). P-1
  • ZHAO, HUI, SHEN, YANFENG, YING, WUCHENG, GHOSH, SAIKAT SUBHRA, AHMED, MD RISHAD and LONG, TENG, 2019. A Single-and Three-Phase Grid Compatible Converter for Electric Vehicle (EV) On-Board Chargers IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD, 2018. Design and analysis of high performance DC-DC converters with SiC technology
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD, TODD, REBECCA and FORSYTH, ANDREW JOHN, 2017. Soft-switching operation of the dual-interleaved boost converter over all duty ratios IET Power Electronics. 10(11), 1250-1258
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD, TODD, REBECCA and FORSYTH, ANDREW J, 2017. Predicting SiC MOSFET Behaviour Under Hard-Switching, Soft-Switching and False Turn-On Conditions IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
  • AHMED, MR, TODD, R and FORSYTH, AJ, 2017. Switching performance of a SiC MOSFET body diode and SiC schottky diodes at different temperatures In: Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2017 IEEE. 5487-5494
  • AHMED, MR, CALDERON-LOPEZ, G, BRYAN, F, TODD, R and FORSYTH, AJ, 2015. Soft-switching SiC interleaved boost converter In: Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2015 IEEE. 941-947
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD and ROGERS, DANIEL J, 2015. FPGA based gate signal generator for three-level neutral point clamped inverters In: Compatibility and Power Electronics (CPE), 2015 9th International Conference on. 419-424
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD, TODD, R and FORSYTH, AJ, 2015. Analysis of SiC MOSFETs under hard and soft-switching In: Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2015 IEEE. 2231-2238
  • AHMED, MD RISHAD, 2013. Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Power-Dense 12 V to 48 V Bidirectional DC-DC converter for Automotive Applications
  • KHAN, MD TANVIR ARAFAT, AHMED, MD RISHAD, AHMED, SINA IBNE and KHAN, SHAHIDUL ISLAM, 2012. Design and performance analysis of water pumping using solar PV In: Developments in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET), 2012 2nd International Conference on the. 1-4

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