Ali Abbaszada

Experienced electrical engineer and U.S. Permanent Resident with a focus on reliability assessment and enhancement of power switches. Proven expertise in designing and developing hardware and software for power converters. Specializes in creating advanced solutions like Active Gate Drivers and Active Thermal Control systems to optimize power loss and extend device lifetime.

• Expert: Plecs, Matlab-Simulink, SaberRD, LTSpice, Altium Designer, Psim
• Familiar: Ansys, Code Composer Studio, Pspice, Cadance, Keil, Proteus, Siemens SIMATIC Step 7

· 4.0 GPA in PhD Program

· Ranked in the top 5% of the master’s degree participants in the national entrance exam

· Ranked in the top 5% of the bachelor’s degree participants in the national entrance exam

• M. Abbaszada, N. Gajanur, and S. K. Mazumder, “Assessing the Reliability of SiC MOSFET through Inverter-Like Accelerated Test Vs. Power Cycling Test,” in review, Journal of Microelectronics Reliability, 2024.
• M. Abbaszada, N. Gajanur, and S. K. Mazumder, “Enhancing SiC-MOSFET-centric reliability of an H-ANPC inverter using an active gate driver based active thermal control,” in review, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2024.
• Nanditha Gajanur, Mohammad Abbaszada, Sudip Mazumder, Matt Ursino and Patrick McCluskey, “Lifetime Prediction of Electrothermally-Stressed Semiconductor Devices in Si/SiC H-ANPC Inverter,” accepted in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, 2024.
• N. Gajanur, M. Abbaszada, S. Gupta, and S. K. Mazumder, “Switch reliability in soft-switched single-stage differential-mode SST subjected to electrothermal stress,” in review, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2024.
• N. R. Gajanur, M. D. R. Greidanus, S. K. Mazumder and M. A. Abbaszada, "Impact and Mitigation of High-Frequency Side-channel Noise Intrusion on the Low-Frequency Performance of an Inverter," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2022.3170885.
• N. Gajanur, M. Greidanus, G. -S. Seo, S. K. Mazumder and M. Ali Abbaszada, "Impact of Blockchain Delay on Grid-Tied Solar Inverter Performance," 2021 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), 2021, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/PEDG51384.2021.9494160.
• J. Ye et al., "A Review of Cyber-Physical Security for Photovoltaic Systems," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2021.3111728.
• M. A. Abbaszadeh, M. Monfared and H. Heydari-doostabad, "High Buck in Buck and High Boost in Boost Dual-Mode Inverter (Hb2DMI)," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4838-4847, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2988240.