Siamak Derakhshan, PhD

•Power Electronics & Hardware Development: Leading the end-to-end design, development, and complex hardware integration for Class 2 power systems. •System Testing & Reliability: Executing rigorous testing protocols for hardwareand firmware to ensure product reliability and strict adherence to industryregulations and certification standards. •Design for Manufacturing (DFM): Implementing DFM principles to optimizeengineering designs for large-scale manufacturing and commercial scalability. •Technical Documentation: Authoring and overseeing the technical documentation required for SR&ED research and identifying new opportunities for Intellectual Property (IP) creation. •Engineering Mentorship: Providing high-level technical mentorship to junior, intermediate, and senior engineers to ensure operational excellence anddevelopment speed within the sub-team.

As an Embedded Hardware Design Engineer at CENCE Power, I lead the development of compact, high-efficiency Class 2 power modules for next-generation DC lighting systems. My work spans the full product cycle—circuit design, PCB layout, prototyping, testing, and optimization—delivering modules like constant current, constant voltage, and passthrough configurations.

This research explores the development and optimization of AC/DC bidirectional converters with reduced storage capacitances, tailored for high-voltage electric vehicle (EV) applications.

Teaching assistant in the following courses: "Power Electronics", “Signal and Systems”, and “Introduction to Data Structure”.

A collaborative research project with Northern Transformer Co. to develop and test advanced control techniques for grid-connected inverters.

Teaching assistant of Linear Control Systems.

This research explores the development of a robust LMI-based voltage control strategy for islanded AC and DC microgrids with parametric uncertanties.