Dr. Carl Ho (Ngai Man), EIT

Area

• Power Electronics
• Heavy Electric Vehicles
• Renewable Energy Technologies
• Smart Grids and Micro Grids
• Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Applications
• Power Hardware-in-the-loop

Expertise

• Power Electronics
• Power Systems
• Control Systems

Research description

Dr. Carl Ho has made significant contributions through his research on Power Electronics (PE) based power apparatuses. He has over 10 years of experience researching in the area of power electronics in industry. He managed projects that developed Solar inverter technologies when he was a Principal Scientist at ABB Switzerland. These studies determined the suitable controls, topology and power semiconductors for the single phase and three phase PV products made by ABB. These projects encompassed full power testing and benchmarking of commercial PV inverters and concluded with a full power evaluation of engineering prototypes that used technologies invented by his team. In 2014, he was appointed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Efficient Utilization of Electric Power to perform research on Renewable Energy, Smart Grids, real time simulations, heavy electric vehicles and issues of Power Quality. He received the Second Place Winner for 2018 Prize Paper Awards of the IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics based on his research outputs. He has a wealth of industrial and academic experience, and has been invited to give presentations at various conferences, including the keynote talk at the International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering in 2019. He has published more than 40 IEEE Journals, 80 IEEE conference papers and filed more than 20 patents.

Dr. Carl Ho received his BEng and MEng double degrees and PhD degree in electronic engineering at the City University of Hong Kong in 2002 and 2007, respectively. His PhD research was focused on dynamic voltage regulation and restoration technology for power quality and energy saving issues.

In 2007-2014, he has been at ABB Switzerland Ltd., Switzerland, and was appointed different positions, including Scientist, Principal Scientist, and the last position was R&D Principal Engineer. At ABB, he has led an international research project team to develop solar inverter technologies. In October 2014, he joined University of Manitoba, currently he is Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Efficient Utilization of Electric Power. In July 2021, he was appointed as Associate Head (Electrical Engineering) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba.

Dr. Ho is an IEEE Senior Member and serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE). He received the Second Place Winner for 2018 Prize Paper Awards of TPEL and he was the recipient of the Associate Editor Awards of JESTPE in 2018, 2019 and 2021. And his leading project team Winnie the Power received Best Student Team Regional Award of the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives 2019 competition in the Americas region.

Journal Publication (2020 - 2022)

R. Abdalaal, and C. Ho, “System Modeling and Stability Analysis of Single-Phase Transformerless UPQC Integrated Input Grid Voltage Regulation”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Ind. Electron., July 2022.

Jayawardana, C. Ho, and Y Zhang, “A Comprehensive Study and Validation of a Power-HIL Testbed for Evaluating Grid-Connected EV Chargers”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron., April 2022.

M. Pokharel, and C. Ho, “Development of Interface Model and Design of Compensator to Overcome Delay Response in a PHIL Setup for Evaluating a Grid-Connected Power Electronic DUT”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., May-June 2022.

J. Dadkhah, C. Ho, K. Siu and R. Li, “Magnetic Components Reduction in Three-phase PFC Converter by Using Reconfigurable LCL Filter”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., Dec. 2022.

D. Li, and C. Ho, “A Module-Based Plug-n-Play Dc Microgrid with Fully Decentralized Control for IEEE Empower a Billion Lives Competition”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., Feb. 2021.

K. Siu, C. Ho, and D. Li, “Design and Analysis of a Bidirectional Hybrid Dc Circuit Breaker using Ac Relays with Long Life Time”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., March 2021.

Jayawardana, C. Ho, and Y. He, “Boundary Control with Corrected Second-order Switching Surface for Buck Converters Connected to Capacitive Loads”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron., Feb. 2021.

M. Pokharel, and C. Ho, “Stability Analysis of Power Hardware in the Loop (PHIL) Architecture with Solar Inverter”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., May 2021.

R. Abdalaal and C. Ho, “Characterization of Commercial LED Lamps for Power Quality Studies,” Can. J. Electr. Comput. Eng, Spring 2021.

D. Li, and C. Ho, “Decentralized PV-BES Coordination Control with Improved Dynamic Performance for Islanded Plug-n-Play Dc Microgrid”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron., Aug. 2021.

Jayawardana, C. Ho, M. Pokharel, and G. Escobar’ “A Fast-Dynamic Control Scheme for a Power-Electronics-Based PV Emulator,” IEEE J. Photovolt., March 2021.

R. Abdalaal, and C. Ho, “Analysis and Validations of Modularized Distributed TL-UPQC systems with Supervisory Remote Management System”, IEEE Trans. Smart Grid., May 2021.

Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “Design, Implementation and Validation of Electro-Thermal Simulation for SiC MOSFETs in Power Electronic Systems”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., May-June 2021.

Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “Generalized Behavioral Modeling Methodology of Switch-Diode Cell for Power Loss Prediction in Electromagnetic Transient Simulation”, Energies, 2021.

K. Siu, and C. Ho, “Manitoba Rectifier - Bridgeless Buck-Boost PFC”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., Jan. 2020.

K. Siu, C. Ho, and R. Li, “A Four-Quadrant Single-Phase Grid-Connected Converter with only Two High Frequency Switches”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., Mar. 2020.

Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “An Electrical Transient Model of IGBT-Diode Switching Cell for Power Semiconductor Loss Estimation in Electromagnetic Transient Simulation”, IEEE Trans. Power Electron., Mar. 2020.

K. Siu and C. Ho, “System Model and Performance Evaluation of Single-Stage Buck-Boost Type Manitoba Inverter for PV Applications”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron., Dec. 2020.

D. Li, and C. Ho, “A Delay-Tolerable Master-Slave Current-Sharing Control Scheme for Parallel-Operated Interfacing Inverters with Low-Bandwidth Communication”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., March-April 2020.

K. Siu, and C. Ho, “Generalized Design Approach of a Family of Grid-connected Converters Based on Active Virtual Ground Technique for Single-phase Ac Microgrid Applications”, CPSS Trans. Power Electron. Appl., Sept. 2020.

Ghosh, C. Ho, J. Prendergast, and Y. Xu, “Conceptual Design and Demonstration of an Automatic System for Extracting Switching Loss and Creating Data Library of Power Semiconductors”, IEEE OJ. Power Electron., 2020.