BE (Hons), MEngSci, PhD

Professor Holmes has a Masters degree in power systems engineering, and a PhD in PWM theory, and has been a faculty member of the ECSE department for over 20 years. He has a distinguished teaching and research record in electrical power and power electronics, and currently heads the Power Electronics Research Group at Monash University, where he manages graduate students and research engineers working together on a mixture of theoretical and practical R&D projects. The present research interests of the group include fundamental modulation theory, current regulators for drive systems and PWM rectifiers, active filter systems for quality of supply improvement, resonant converters, current source inverters for drive systems, and multilevel converters.

Professor Holmes has a strong and continuing commitment and interest in the control and operation of electrical power converters. He has made a significant contribution to the understanding of PWM theory through his publications and has developed close ties with the international research community in the area. He has been a member of the IEEE since 1987, is an active committee member for both the Industrial Applications Society and the Power Electronics Society, and has published over 100 papers at international conferences and in professional journals. He is the recipient of two prize paper awards from IEEE IAS conferences, and supervised the winner of the Myron Zuker Student Prize in 2000. He has just published a major reference textbook on Pulse Width Modulation, co-authored with Professor Lipo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

4th BE (Elec)

Andrew has been co-leader of the team since the commencement of the project. He has been actively involved in task delegation, team leadership, project timeline and sponsorship coordination. Andrew has also been focusing on research for the input stage of the design. He has a particular interest in power, robotics and programming.

4th BE (Mechatronics)

Huy is a fourth year undergraduate student, major in Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Department, at Monash University. For early stage of the project design, he was involved in the microprocessor sub-group to do researches on the requirement of microprocessor functions and characteristics. He has interests in programming, robotics and micro/nanotech.

4th BE (Mechatronics)

Khanh has been working together with the sub group on the functional requirements, characteristics and selection criteria for the DSP during the proposal stage. In the sub group, he has also been involved in preparing the sponsorship documents. On the later stage, he will take responsibility for DSP programming and circuit simulation. Khanh is interest in robotics, programming, controlling and nanotechnology.

4th BE (Elec)

Maryam has been initially engaged in research for the battery section of the team, mostly dealing with battery identification and their charging profiles. she has a wide range of interest in the broad spectrum of areas of Electrical and computer systems engineering such as, robotics, control, biomedical and programming.

4th BE (Elec)

Mojtaba was involved with the researching and design of the input High voltage to low voltage topology, Isolation transformer, and component selection of this process. He is also involved in the sponsorship group of the team.

3rd BE (Elec)

Nikrouz has completed the third year in E&CSE and involved in the design of the DC to DC converter (Buck converter). Also he has been involved in sourcing of components and hardware construction. He is interested in circuit designing and robotics.

4th BE (Elec)

Parinya is currently a fourth year undergraduate student in Monash University majoring in Electrical and computer systems engineering. In the team, he has been actively involved in the battery identification, charging profiles, and testings. His interests within Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering are diverse; however he is particularly interested in robotics and computer architecture.

3rd BE (Elec)

Reza has recently completed his third year of his degree and was involved in researching and designing the conversion stage He is currently working on designing the input stage of the project.

3rd BE (Elec)

Saeed has recently completed his 3rd year of the Bachelor of Engineering degree. He is heavily involved with design and construction of all conversion stages of the project. He has a broad interest in all areas of electrical engineering.

4th BE (Elec)

Trung is currently doing fourth year in Monash University, major in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering. He was involved in the microprocessor sub-group as well as sponsorship documents on the early stage. He will take responsibility in microprocessor and simulation parts. He is very interested in robotics, biomedical, controlling, especially in RFID systems and Optical Communication systems.