Apurv Kumar Yadav
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Assistant Professor, Room No: 310 Phone: +91-9480559015 |
Biography
I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, INDIA. I received the B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, INDIA, in 2011, and the M.Tech degree with Distinction in Electronic design and technology (with the final project on high-frequency transformer-isolated grid-connected inverter) and Ph.D. degree (focused on multilevel inverter based induction motor drives) from the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (formerly CEDT), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA, in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
My broad area of research interest includes motor drives with wide-bandgap (WBG) devices, multilevel converters, and wireless power transfer (static and dynamic). Presently, I am also serving as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
Before joining IIT Roorkee, I worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
Some of the specific research projects in which I was involved are: a 900W SiC-based wireless power transfer system for the low voltage batteries, 5kW GaN-based regulated transformer rectifier unit for aircraft applications, capacitor connection point voltage balancing in the stacked multilevel inverters, topology to generate highly dense 12-sided voltage space vector structures, a new 7-level multilevel inverter topology, 250W grid-connected inverter and 7kWh, 400V lithium-ion battery pack for the formula student racing electric car. More detailed information of my past research projects can be obtained from pastprojects.html.
Recent Updates
April 2025: Our work titled “A New PWM Scheme for H7 Current Source Inverter with Minimal Switching”, is accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.
April 2025: Our work titled “Design of an RLC dv/dt Filter for WBG devices enabled Integrated Motor Drives”, is accepted for presentation in IEEE SeFet 2025 conference, scheduled from July 9–12, 2025, at MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
April 2025: Our work titled “A Technique to Minimize the Neutral Point Voltage Variation and Capacitor Size for 3-level NPC Inverter fed Motor Drives”, is accepted for presentation in IEEE SeFet 2025 conference, scheduled from July 9–12, 2025, at MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
March 2025: Filed an Indian Patent (filing no: 202511024626) on “Misalignment tolerant inductive contactless charging systems for electric vehicle” with Adarsh Dubey and Apurv Kumar Yadav as inventors.
March 2025: Our work titled “Small Signal Modeling of LCC-S Compensated Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System Using Extended Describing Function Method”, is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
Febuary 2025: Our work titled “A single-stage admittance control network based misalignment tolerant inductive power transfer system for EV application”, is accepted for presentation in 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), scheduled from May 11–14, 2025, at Bangalore, India.
Febuary 2025: Our work titled “A Multiphase Non-Overlapping Bipolar Electromagnetic Coupler for High Power Contactless Charging Of Electric Vehicles”, is accepted for presentation in 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition Asia (ECCE-Asia), scheduled from May 11–14, 2025, at Bangalore, India.
January 2025: Prof. Apurv Kumar Yadav is awarded as “MOST PROMISING CAMPUS CHAMPION OF STARTUP SUPPORT” by TIDES, IIT Roorkee.
November 2024: Filed an Indian Patent (filing no: 202411081557) on “An active gate driving system and method for the voltage balancing of series connected GaN devices for higher voltage application” with Siddhartha Suyal, Shambhunath Dutta and Apurv Kumar Yadav as inventors.
October 2024: Gave a training on “Electric drives”, at the R&DE,DRDO Pune INDIA.
September 2024: Our work titled “A Passive dv-dt Filter For Integrated Induction Motor Drive Fed From 3-phase 2-level GaN Based Inverter”, is accepted for presentation in 2024, Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), scheduled to take place in Suratkhal, Mangalore, INDIA, during 18th - 21st December, 2024.
September 2024: Our work titled “Loss Comparison of GaN, SiC, and IGBT based inverters for Low Voltage High Current Two-Wheeler EV Applications”, is accepted for presentation in 2024, Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), scheduled to take place in Suratkhal, Mangalore, INDIA, during 18th - 21st December, 2024.
September 2024: Our work titled “Active Gate Driving Technique for the Voltage Balancing of Series Connected GaN Devices for Higher Voltage Application”, is accepted for presentation in 2024, Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), scheduled to take place in Suratkhal, Mangalore, INDIA, during 18th - 21st December, 2024.
September 2024: Our work titled “A Control Technique for Achieving ZVS and Minimum Conduction Loss in DAB by Varying Input DC Link Voltage for EV Applications”, is accepted for presentation in 2024, Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), scheduled to take place in Suratkhal, Mangalore, INDIA, during 18th - 21st December, 2024.
September 2024: Our work titled “Effect of parasitic inductance on switching transition for Four-Quadrant SiC-based Current Source Inverter”, is accepted for presentation in 2024, Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), scheduled to take place in Suratkhal, Mangalore, INDIA, during 18th - 21st December, 2024.
July 2024: Filed an Indian Patent (filing no: 202411054537) on “A multi-phase electromagnetic coupler for contactless charging of electric vehicles” with Sukumar Das and Apurv Kumar Yadav as inventors.
July 2024: Gave an lecture on “Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless Charging of Electric Vehicles”, in the workshop on “Power Electronics for Transport Decarbonization” at IIT Delhi, INDIA.
June 2024: Gave an lecture on “Design and Challenges with Inductive Power Transfer Based Contactless Charging of Electric Vehicles”, at the IIT Bhilai, INDIA.
May 2024: Our work titled “Generalized Analytical Modeling for Switching Loss Estimation of SiC MOSFET at Wide Operating Range”, is accepted for presentation in 2024 IEEE International Communications Energy Conference (INTELEC), scheduled to take place in Bengaluru (Bangalore), INDIA, during 4th - 7th August, 2024.
April 2024: Obtained an industrial reserach project as the CO-PI.
Febuary 2024: Attended and presented a project in the ISPEC-2024 organized by SCL, Chandigarh under Indian Semiconductor Mission.
Febuary 2024: Gave an training on “WBG devices based Power Electronics Converter”, at the BHEL R&D, Hyderabad INDIA.
December 2023: Gave an lecture “Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless EV Charging”, in the FDP on “Recent Advancements in Electric Vehicle Technologies”,organized by the E-MOBILITY RESEARCH CENTRE, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, INDIA.
November 2023: Obtained an industrial consultancy project on the design of on-board charger.
October 2023: Siddhartha Suyal, joined my reserach team as the PhD student.
September 2023: Our work titled “An integrated battery charging system utilizing inductive power transfer and traction motor drive system for EVs”, is accepted for presentation in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2023) to be held in Dec. 2023 at Thiruvananthapuram, INDIA.
September 2023: Our work titled “Power loss Comparison of Si-IGBT SiC-MOSFET And GaN Based 3-level Diode Clamped Inverter fed Induction Motor Drive”, is accepted for presentation in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2023) to be held in Dec. 2023 at Thiruvananthapuram, INDIA.
July 2023: Gave an lecture “Design and Challenges of Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless Charging System”, in the EV workshop, organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
June 2023: Our work titled “A LCC-Series Based Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System Employing Duty Ratio Control”, is accepted for presentation in IEEE Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation Conference (SeFeT), 2023 to be held in Aug.2023 at SOA Bhubhaneshwar, INDIA.
May 2023: Our work titled “A New Carrier Based PWM for a 3-Phase 5-Level Neutral Point Clamped Inverter”, is accepted for presentation in IEEE Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation Conference (SeFeT), 2023 to be held in Aug.2023 at SOA Bhubhaneshwar, INDIA.
Apr. 2023: Coordination of an Advanced Certificate Program in Electric Vehicle offered by EICT, IIT Roorkee.
Mar. 2023: Congratulations to Shambhunath Dutta on recieving the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) award for 2023, his research area is GaN based Integarted Motor Drive.
Oct. 2022: Recieved the DST-SERB Start-up Research Grant of worth INR. 33,00,000 on a project titled “Multiphase Inductive Power Transfer System for Contactless Fast Charging of Electric Vehicles”.
Sept. 2022: Gave an lecture on “Design of WBG Devices-Based Power Electronics Converters” in the Electrical Engineering Department at NIT Puducherry.
Sept. 2022: Our work titled “A New Switching Scheme for H7 Current Source Inverter with Integrated Soft Switching Transitions”, is accepted for presentation in IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), 2022 to be held in Dec.2022 at MNIT Jaipur, INDIA.
August 2022: Recieved the Faculty Initiation Grant of worth INR. 20,00,000 from IIT, Roorkee on a project titled“ Investigations on SiC-based Current Source Inverter with Pre-stage Converter for NextGen EV Motor Drives”.
July 2022: Adarsh Dubey, joined my reserach team as the PhD student.
June 2022: Proposed a new core course on “Charging Infrastructure” for new proposed M.Tech Electric Vehicle Technology (EVT).
May 2022: Gursimran Singh, a third year Electrical Engineering student from Indian Institute of Technology, kharagpur, joined my reserach team as SPARK Intern for the period of 8 weeks.
April 2022: Became the member of project implementation group for the DST-FIST project on the development of Electrical vehicle charging reserach infrastructure facility worth INR 1.33Cr.
March 2022: Gave an lecture on “Principles and Design of Inductive Power Transfer based Contactless Charging” in the Electrical Engineering Department at MNIT Jaipur.
Jan. 2022: Sukumar Das and Ashish Kumar, joined my reserach team as the PhD students.
Sept. 2021: Joined the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification as an Associate Editor.
June 2021: Proposed a new elective course on “Design of Wideband-gap devices based power converter” for M.Tech and senior UG students.
May 2021: Joined IIT Roorkee as an Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering.