Fall Commencement is not as large as Spring but it is still a big deal. In fact, 8 of the 26 PhD’s awarded were to FREEDM students! We also graduated 7 Electric Power Systems Engineering students and 3 Master’s students. Here are the details:

Name	Degree	Thesis	Chairs	New Employee
Gokhan Cakir	PhD	Methods to Improve State Estimation Performance for Real Time Monitoring	Mesut Baran	Duke Energy
Ken Crawford	PhD	Methods for Topology Monitoring on a Distribution System Using State Estimation	Mesut Baran, Wenyuan Tang	Booth and Associates
Partha Das	PhD	Investigations on Multilevel Six-Phase Motor Drives With Nonsinusoidal Back EMF for Fault Tolerant Transportation Applications	Subhashish Bhattacharya	NCSU Post Doc
Md Rashed Hassan Bipu	PhD	Control, Fault Management, and Grid Support Functionality of an MV AC-DC Solid State Transformer Based EV Extreme Fast Charging Station	Iqbal Husain	Eaton
Michael Kercher	PhD	Bidirectional Shared-Switch DC-DC Converter for Electric Vehicle Applications	Iqbal Husain, Wensong Yu	Scientific Applications & Research Associates
Hualong Liu	PhD	Handling the Non-Convexity and Uncertainty of Energy Systems With High Renewable Penetration	Wenyuan Tang
Ujjwal Pratik	PhD	Modeling and Application of a Back-to-Back Diodes-Based Linear Variable Capacitor in Resonant Converters	Zeljko Pantic	WiBotic
Subhransu Satpathy	PhD	Design and Control Strategies for GaN-Based Three Level Active Neutral Point Clamped Inverter in Hard-Switched DC-AC Conversion Systems	Subhashish Bhattacharya
Ulises Cubas	PSM	Electric Power Systems Engineering	Mesut Baran	RMF Emgineering
Jackson Kline	PSM	Electric Power Systems Engineering	Mesut Baran
Alex Kniffin	PSM	Electric Power Systems Engineering	Mesut Baran
Thomas Mcdougall Jr.	PSM	Electric Power Systems Engineering	Mesut Baran	Aclara
Vivsham Mistri	PSM	Electric Power Systems Engineering	Mesut Baran
Jemis Patel	PSM	Electric Power Systems Engineering	Mesut Baran	Siemens
Yang Yang	PSM	Electric Power Systems Engineering	Mesut Baran
Matt Burchett	MS	Electrical Engineering	Zeljko Pantic	Danfoss
Nikunj Gupta	MS	Electrical Engineering	Zeljko Pantic	ASML
Stephen Paul	MS	Electrical Engineering	Zeljko Pantic	Tesla