KKA Photocrop Khurram K. Afridi

Visiting Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT, Room 10-140L

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-253-4199
Email: afridi@mit.edu

Education

BS (Caltech), SM (MIT), PhD (MIT)

Awards and Honors

• Werner-von-Siemens Chair for Power Electronics, LUMS SSE, 2008

• BMW Scientific Award, BMW AG, 1999

• Carnation Merit Award, Caltech, 1988

• Elected into Eta Kappa Nu (The Electrical Engineering Honor Society), 1988

• Elected into Tau Beta Pi (The Engineering Honor Society), 1987

• Elected into Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society), 1987

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Caltech, 1987

• Full College Blazer, Aitchison, 1985

Research

Power Electronics, Power Semiconductor Devices, Automotive Electronics and Smart Electric Grids

Recent Publications

· K.K. Afridi, M. Chen and D.J. Perreault, "Enhanced Bipolar Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffers," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, March/April, 2014 (in press).

· M. Chen, K.K. Afridi and D.J. Perreault, "Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffer Architecture," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 11, pp. 5183-5195, November, 2013.

· M. Chen, K.K. Afridi and D.J. Perreault, "A Multilevel Energy Buffer and Voltage Modulator for Grid-Interfaced Micro-Inverter," Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Denver, CO, September 2013.

· J.A. Santiago-González, K.K. Afridi and D.J. Perreault, "Design of Resistive-Input Class E Resonant Rectifiers for Variable-Power Operation," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Salt Lake City, UT, June 2013.

· S. Gunter, K.K. Afridi and D.J. Perreault, "Optimal Design of Grid-Interfaced PEV Chargers with Integrated Distributed Resources," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 956-967, June, 2013.

· P. Mitros, K.K. Afridi, G.J. Sussman, C.J. Terman, J.K. White, L.J. Fischer and A. Agarwal, "Teaching Electronic Circuits Online: Lessons from MITx's 6.002x on edX," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Beijing, China, May, 2013.

· W. Inam, K.K. Afridi and D.J. Perreault, "High Efficiency Resonant DC/DC Converter Utilizing a Resistance Compression Network," Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, March, 2013.

· S.J. Gunter, D.J. Perreault, S. Suresh and K.K. Afridi, "Methodology for the Optimal Design of PEV Charging Systems with Multiple Chargers and Distributed Resources," Proceedings of the IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), Washington, DC, February 2013.

· A. Siddiqi, J. Wescoat, S. Humair, K. Afridi, "An Empirical Analysis of the Hydropower Portfolio in Pakistan," Energy Policy, vol. 50, pp. 228-241, November, 2012.

· K.K. Afridi, M. Chen and D.J. Perreault, "Enhanced Bipolar Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffers," Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 4209-4216, Raleigh, NC, September 2012.

· M. Chen, K.K. Afridi and D.J. Perreault, "Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffer Architecture," Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, February 2012.

· S. Gunter, K.K. Afridi and D.J. Perreault, "Optimal Design of Grid-Interfaced EV Chargers with Integrated Generation," Proceedings of the IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), Washington, DC, January 2012.

· J.G. Kassakian, R.L. Schmalensee, G. DesGroseilliers, T.D. Heidel, K.K. Afridi, A.M. Farid, J.M. Grochow, W.W. Hogan, H.D. Jacoby, J.L. Kirtley, H.G. Michaels, I. Pérez Arriaga, D.J. Perreault, N.L. Rose and G.L. Wilson, The Future of the Electric Grid, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, December, 2011.

· D.J. Perreault, K.K. Afridi and I.A. Khan, “Automotive Applications of Power Electronics,” Power Electronics Handbook, 3^rd Edition, Muhammad H. Rashid (Editor), pp. 643-668, Elsevier, 2011.

Select Older Publications and Patents

· A.A. Baloch, U. Ahmed, M. Asif and K.K. Afridi, “Rules-based Occupant Classification System for Airbag Deployment,” United States Patent, No. 6459974 (European Patent No. EP1262376; Japanese Patent No. JP2003025953; Canadian Patent No. CA2387076), October 1, 2002.

· K.K. Afridi, “MAESTrO - A Software Tool for the Design and Evaluation of Advanced Automotive Electrical Power Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation, pp. 39-46, Dearborn, MI, USA, October, 1996.

· K.K. Afridi and J.G. Kassakian, “Turn-off Failures in Individual and Paralleled MCTs,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, pp. 299-304, March, 1996.

Select Talks

· "Circuits and Systems Education in the Era of the MOOCs," CASEO Workshop, ISCAS, Beijing, China, May, 2013.

· "Converter and System Architectures for Grid-Interfaced Power Electronics," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium, Tufts University, Medford, MA, November 2012.

· "Methodology for the Optimal Design of Grid-Connected PEV Charging Systems with Integrated Distributed Resources," Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, July 2012.

· “Electrification of Road Transport and its Impact on the Grid,” MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) Workshop, Cambridge, MA, April 2010.

· “International Grid Activities,” MIT Future of the Electric Grid Study Advisory Board Meeting, Cambridge, MA, January 2010.

· “An Engineering Curriculum for the 21st Century,” International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Education, Islamabad, December, 2007.

Teaching

Fall 2013: Advanced Topics in Power Electronics (6.332)

Fall 2013: Theory and Application of Circuits and Electronics (6.169)

Spring 2013: Power Electronics (6.334)

Fall 2012: Circuits and Electronics (6.002x) - MITx on edX

Fall 2012: Theory and Application of Circuits and Electronics (6.169)

Spring 2012: Circuits and Electronics (6.002)

Spring 2012: Theory and Application of Circuits and Electronics (6.S076)

Fall 2011: Circuits and Electronics (6.002)

Spring 2011: Circuits and Electronics (6.002)