University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Graduate Students

Andersen, Luke

About Luke Andersen is a WEMPEC Master’s Research student at UW Madison. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University, assisting with EV charging projects at the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center. His research experience includes solid-state transformers, single-phase inverters, EV chargers, and power processing units for electric spacecraft propulsion. Beyond technical work, …

Bae, SangIn

About Sangin is from Daegu, South Korea and earned his B.S. at Hanyang University in Electrical engineering. His research focuses on modular multilevel converters (MMCs) and active power decoupling (APD) techniques for broad power applications, including motor drives and HVDC systems. He is particularly interested in converter modeling, control, and impedance-based stability analysis, integrating theoretical …

Baik, Hyeongmeen

About Hyeongmeen Baik (Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2023. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, USA. Since 2023, he has been a Research Assistant with the …

Chinnusamy, Abhinav

About Abhinav Chinnusamy is a Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on pulsed power systems, specifically the design and development of solid-state Marx generators for high-voltage applications. In his free time, Abhinav enjoys playing badminton and has recently started running, including training for his first half marathon.

Javidi, Pourya

About Pourya is a PhD student in Power Electronics and Electric Machines. He received his M.Sc. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran where he conducted research on Failure Detection for Series-Connected IGBTs. His research interests include Gate Driver for Series-Connected Devices, Pulsed Power Systems, and Soft-Switching & Resonant Converters. Pourya enjoys watching detective shows and …

Rhee, Albert

About Albert is an MS-Research student in the Roy Research Group at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, since Fall 2025. Born in Austin, Texas and raised in Seoul, South Korea, he earned his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University. Before beginning his graduate studies, he interned at Samsung Electronics (Home Appliances Business) …