Ph.D Student
Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ➤
Cockrell School of Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Email: pushkarsaraf@utexas.edu
About
Pushkar Saraf was born in Pune, India, in 1997. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s (Dual-Degree) in Energy Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2021. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. His research interests include design and control of high-frequency power converters and wide-bandgap devices in power electronics. He loves watching anime, reading epic fantasy and science fiction, and trekking. He is an avid fan of Formula One.
Select Publications
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- C. Deng, P. Chavoshipour Heris, D. T. Nguyen, P. Saraf and A. Hanson, “Design Elements of a Nonlinear Decentralized Control Scheme For Modular Power Conversion,” 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ECCE50734.2022.9947499.
- P. Saraf, C. Deng and A. Hanson, “Describing Function Analysis of Nonlinear Decentralized Control Scheme for Modular Power Sharing,” 2022 IEEE 23rd Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Tel Aviv, Israel, 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/COMPEL53829.2022.9830030.
- V. Rai, P. Saraf and V. S. S. P. K. Hari, “Design and Control of Bidirectional DC- DC Converter for Active Power Decoupling,” 2021 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC51183.2021.9384977.