Xin Zan

Xin Zan

Assistant Professor

Background

Dr. Xin Zan joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor in late July 2023. During the deferral time before joining, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at RLE at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zan received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 2022.  His dissertation was titled “Scalable Architectures for High Frequency and Very High Frequency Wireless Power Transfer”.  He also received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2016.His research interests include 3-300 MHz Power Conversion and Wireless Transmission, and Pulse Power Electronics. A fun-fact of me: “I have been growing up on the highest plateau in the world, i.e. the third pole, for 18 years, but I am always grounded to the earth for most of my life.”

Education

Massachusets Institute of Technology:

• Postdoctoral Associate, 2022-2023

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:

• Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016-2022

Tsinghua University:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2012-2016

Research

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Honors and Awards

• IEEE IAS RES Conference First Prize Paper Award, Oct. 2022
• IEEE ITEC 2022 Best Student Paper Award, Jun. 2022
• ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Student Program, Feb. 2022
• University of Michigan Rackham Graduate Student Research Grants Winner, Oct. 2021
• UMich 2021-2022 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Winner, Mar. 2021
• IEEE PELS Best ECCE Paper on Emerging Technology Award Oral Presentation, Oct. 2019
• UMich Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement Award, Feb. 2019
• UMich Best Scientific Visualization Award of College of Engineering Graduate Symposium, Oct. 2018
• IEEE PELS Best Student Project Demonstration on Emerging Technology 2nd Prize Award, Sep. 2018
• IEEE PELS ECCE 2018 Student Travel Grant Award, Sep. 2018
• IEEE PELS WoW 2018 Student Paper Competition Certification of Meritd, Jun. 2018
• UMich Best Poster Award for the MicroAlliance/WIMS2 IoT Workshop Poster Competition, Sep. 2017
• UMich Rackham Conference Travel Grant, Jul. 2017, Sep. 2018, Sep. 2019, Jun. 2021, Sep. 2021
• UMich Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Fellowship Award, Sep. 2016
• Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University, Jul. 2016
• The Academic Excellent Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 2012-2013, 2014-2015

Selected Publications

3 – 300 MHz Power Conversion and Wireless Transmission

• Multi-Phase Current-Mode Power Amplifier Architecture Xin Zan 2024 IEEE 25th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Lahore, Pakistan, 2024, pp. 1-8
• Wide-Range Switched-Mode Power Amplifier Architecture Xin Zan, Khandoker N Rafa Islam, and David J Perreault 2023 IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2023, pp. 1-9
• 100 MHz Symmetric Current-Mode Class D Wireless Power Transfer Xin Zan and Al-Thaddeus Avestruz IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 4508-4525, Aug. 2023
• Field Cancellation for Circuits Encircled by VHF Wireless Power Transfer Coils Xin Zan and Al-Thaddeus Avestruz IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 46-52, Jan. 2023
• Isolated Ultrafast Gate Driver with Variable Duty Cycle for Pulse and VHF Power Electronics Xin Zan and Al-Thaddeus Avestruz IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 12678-12685, Dec. 2020

Pulse Power Electronics

• Medium Voltage Pulse Power Generator for Accurate Current Interruption Xin Zan, Daniel Roman Torres, Reza Kheirollahi, Xiaonan Lu, Sheng Zheng, Fei Lu, and Al-Thaddeus Avestruz IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 3604-3615, April 2023.
• Capacitive Couple-Based Transient Current Commutation in Solid-State Circuit Breakers Reza Kheirollahi, Xin Zan, Shuyan Zhao, Hua Zhang, Sheng Zheng, Xiaonan Lu, Al-Thaddeus Avestruz, and Fei Lu IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 4973-4978, May 2022.

Sensing and Measurement

• Electromagnetic Model-Based Foreign Object Detection for Wireless Power Transfer Sung Yul Chu, Xin Zan, and Al-Thaddeus Avestruz IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 100-113, Jan. 2022.

• Transfer-Power Measurement Using a Non-Contact Method For Fair and Accurate Metering of Wireless Power Transfer in Electric Vehicles Sung Yul Chu, Xiaofan Cui, Xin Zan, and Al-Thaddeus Avestruz IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 1244-1271, Feb.2022.

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