PhD defence by Silpa Baburajan

Silpa Baburajan, AAU Energy, will defend the thesis "DC-link Harmonic Mitigation Strategies and Improvement of DC-link Capacitor Lifetime in Multidrive System"

TITLE

DC-link Harmonic Mitigation Strategies and Improvement of DC-link Capacitor Lifetime in Multidrive System

PHD DEFENDANT

Silpa Baburajan

SUPERVISOR

Professor Frede Blaabjerg

CO-SUPERVISOR

Assistant Professor Haoran Wang and Dinesh Kumar

MODERATOR

Assistant Professor Dao Zhou

OPPONENTS

Professor Jayakrishnan Radhakrishna Pillai, Aalborg University, Denmark (Chairman)
Professor Maria Ines Valla, LEICI, CONICET-UNLP, Argentina
Professor Leonīds Ribickis, RTU, Latvia

PROFILE

Silpa Baburajan (Student Member, IEEE) received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, in 2015, and MTech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, U.S.A, in 2017. She pursued a Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics Engineering (2018 to 2022) in collaboration with Danfoss Drives A/S, Gråsten, from the Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2015 to 2016, she served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and then as Assistant Lecturer (January 2018-June 2018) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, U.S.A. She would like to continue her career in the industry, where she can take on project management responsibilities.

Furthermore, she was one of the 16 students, who were selected from different study backgrounds to work with a start-up in the Scandinavian Growth Creators Program, Denmark, 2020. She worked closely with an Aalborg University Startup "Cryer" for 7 sessions and was a part of their development, where she gained knowledge about tools and methods within the field of business development.

THE DEFENCE will be IN ENGLISH - all are welcome.