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	Firuz Zare received his BSc (Eng) degree in Electronic Engineering, his MSc degree in Power Engineering and his PhD degree in Power Electronics in 1989, 1995 and 2001, respectively. He has spent several years in industry as a team leader and development engineer where he was involved in different electronics and power electronics projects. He won a Student Paper Prize at AUPEC conference in 2001 and received a Symposium Fellowship Award by the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering in 2001. He also received faculty Excellence Award in Research as an early career academic from Queensland University of Technology in 2007, John Madsen Medal for the best journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007 and the Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship Award in 2009. He has published over 135 journal and conference papers and technical reports in the area of Power Electronics. He has been invited as a reviewer and technical chair of national and international conferences and has presented several seminars and workshops. Books 1. Firuz Zare, “Advanced Power Electronics”, ISBN: 978-0-646-56126-4, www.peeeb.com, 2011 2. Firuz Zare (Editor), “Electromagnetic Interference Issues in Power Electronics and Power Systems”, Bentham Science Publishers, eISBN: 978-1-60805-240-0, 2011 3. Firuz Zare, “Power Electronics Education E-Book”, ISBN 978-0-646-49442-5, www.peeeb.com, 2008 Book Chapter 4. Alireza Nami and Firuz Zare, "Multilevel Converters in Renewable Energy Systems", In-Tech, ISBN 978-953-7619-52-7, Jan 2010 Refereed Journal Articles 5. F. Shahnia, M.T. Wishart, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich, F. Zare, "Smart demand side management of low-voltage distribution networks using multi-objective decision making", IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, April 2012, DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2011.0781 6. Negareh Ghasemi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Chris Langton, ”A Harmonic Elimination Technique for a Single-phase Multilevel Converter with Unequal DC Link Voltage Levels”, Accepted for publication in the IET transaction on Power Electronics, Feb 2012. 7. Davari, Pooya; Zare, Firuz Ghosh, Arindam; Akiyama, Hidenori, “High Voltage Modular Power Supply Using Parallel and Series Configurations of Flyback Converter for Pulsed Power Applications”, Accepted for publication in the IEEE transaction on Plasma Science, May 2012. 8. Pooya Davari, Negareh Ghasemi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Peter O’Shea, “Improving the Efficiency of High Power Piezoelectric Transducers for Industrial Applications”, Accepted for publication in the IET Science, Measurement & Technology, March 2012. 9. Jafar Adabi Firouzjaee, Firuz Zare, Arash Boora, Alireza Nami, Arindam Ghosh “Common Mode Voltage Reduction in a Motor Drive System with a PFC”, Accepted to appear in IET Power Electronics (Oct 2011). 10. F. Shahnia, R. Majumder, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage imbalance analysis in residential low voltage distribution networks with rooftop PVs,” Accepted to appear in Electric Power Systems Research (2011). 11. Zabihi, Sasan; Zabihi, Zeynab; Zare, Firuz, “A Solid State Marx Generator with a Novel Configuration”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 39, Issue 8, Pages 1721-1728, 2011. 12. Sasan Zabihi; Firuz Zare; Gerard Ledwich; Arindam Ghosh; Hidenori Akiyama, “A New Family of Marx Generators Based on Commutation Circuits”, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 18, Issue 4, pp. 1181-1188, August 2011 13. Zabihi, Sasan, Zare, Firuz, Ledwich, Gerard, Ghosh, Arindam, Akiyama, Hidenori, “A novel high voltage pulsed power supply based on low voltage switch-capacitor units” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 38(10). pp. 2877-2887, 2010. 14. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh, Hidenori Akiyama, “A New Generation of High Voltage Pulsed Power Converters”, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Volume 17, Issue 6, pp. 1901-1911, December 2010. 15. Ritwik Majumder, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh and Firuz Zare, "Control and Protection of a Microgrid Connected to Utility through Back-to-Back Converters", Electric Power Systems Research, Vol 81, Issue 7, Pages 1424-35, 2011 16. Firuz Zare, “A Practical Approach to Model Electric Motors for Electromagnetic Interference and Shaft Voltage Analysis”, the IET (formerly IEE), Transaction on Electric Power Applications, Vol 4, Issue 9, Pages 727-738, Nov 2010. 17. Arash Boora, Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Frede Blaabjerg, "Voltage Sharing Converter to Supply Single-Phase Asymmetrical Four-Level Diode-Clamped Inverter with High Power Factor Loads", IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, Volume 25, No. 10, Oct 2010. 18. Ritwik Majumder, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh and Firuz Zare, "Droop Control of Converter Interfaced Micro Sources in Rural Distributed Generation", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Volume 25, NO. 4, October 2010. 19. Farhad Shahnia, Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, "Operation and Control of a Hybrid Microgrid Containing Unbalanced and Nonlinear Loads" Electric Power Systems Research, ELSEVIER, Vol. 80, Issue 8, Pages: 954-965, 2010. 20. Ramin Agha Zadeh, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, "Analysis of Phasor Measurement Method in Tracking the Power Frequency of Distorted Signals" the IET (formerly IEE) Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 4, Iss. 7, pp. 759–769, 2010. 21. Arash Boor, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, "A New family of Multi-Output DC-DC Converter Topologies to Supply an Asymmetrical Four-Level Diode-Clamped Inverter", The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, COMPEL, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 451-482, 2011. 22. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Load Frequency Control for Rural Distributed Generation”, Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 38, Issue 6, pages 637-656 2010. 23. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “Asymmetrical DC Link Voltage Configuration for a Diode-clamped Inverter”, Transactions of the Institute of Electric Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Vol. 130 / No. 2 , pp. 195-206, 2010. 24. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Frede Blaabjerg, “Hybrid Cascade Converter Topology with Series Connected Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Diode-clamped H-Bridge Cells”, the IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, Volume 26, NO. 1, Jan 2011. 25. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Power Management and Power Flow Control with Back-to-Back Converters in a Utility Connected Microgrid”, the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 521-834, May 2010. 26. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Improvement of Stability and Load Sharing in an Autonomous Microgrid Using Supplementary Droop Control Loop,” the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp 796-808, 2010. 27. Ramin Agha Zadeh, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Online Estimation of Distorted Power System Signal Parameters”, the IET (formerly IEE) Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol 4, issue 6, Page(s) 746-755, 2010 (Impact Factor 0.95) 28. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Load Sharing and Power Quality Enhanced Operation of a Distributed Microgrid”, the IET (formerly IEE) Renewable Power Generation Journal, 2009, Vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 109–119 29. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Frede Blaabjerg, "Multi-output DC-DC Converters Based on Diode-clamped Converters Configuration: Topology and Control Strategy", the IET (formerly IEE) Power Electronics, Vol. 3, Issue: 2, March 2010, pp. 197 - 208. 30. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Robert D. Lorenz, “Calculations of Capacitive Couplings in Induction Generators to Analyze Shaft Voltage”, the IET (formerly IEE) Power Electronics, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 379–390. 31. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Investigation of Shaft Voltage in Wind Turbine Systems with Induction Generators”, Transactions of the Institute of Electric Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Vol.129, No.11, pp. 1092-1100, 2009. 32. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Enhancing the Stability of an Autonomous Microgrid Using DSTATCOM”, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, Dec 2009 33. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Enhancing Stability of an Autonomous Microgrid using a Gain Scheduled Angle Droop Controller with Derivative Feedback”, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, Dec 2009 34. Arash Boor, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, “Utilizing Robustness of Positive Buck-Boost Converter against Input Voltage and Load Current Disturbances”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, March 2009. 35. Firuz Zare, “EMI in Modern AC Motor Drive Systems”, the IEEE EMC Society Newsletters, Issue No 222, pp. 53-58, Summer 2009. (Invited Paper) 36. Firuz Zare, “EMI Issues in Modern Power Electronic Systems”, the IEEE EMC Society Newsletters, Issue No. 221, pp. 66-70, Spring 2009. (Invited Paper) 37. J. Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Analysis, Calculation and Reduction of Shaft Voltage in Induction Generators”, Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, No.7, April 2009 38. Nami, A. A. Boora, Firuz Zare, A.Ghosh, F. Blaabjerg, “A Novel Configuration for Voltage Sharing in DC-DC Converters”, Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, No.7, April 2009 39. J. Adabi, Firuz Zare, A. Ghosh, R.D. Lorenz, “Analysis of Shaft Voltage in a Doubly-fed Induction Generator”, Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, No.7, April 2009 40. Hoda Ghoreishy, Firuz Zare, Hamid Hassanpour, “Controlling the Common-mode Voltage in Multilevel Inverters”, The International Journal of Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 243-251, September 2008. 41. Hamid Soltani, Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Effects of Switching Time on Output Voltages of a Multilevel Inverter Used in High Frequency Applications”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol 5, No 2, pp. 149-160, 2008. 42. Firuz Zare, “High Frequency Model of an Electric Motor Based on Measurement Results”, Australian journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol 4, No 1, pp. 17-24, 2008. 43. Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich “A New Predictive Current Control Technique for Multilevel Converters”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 2008, Vol 4, No 1, pp.25-35, 2008. 44. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, “A New Random Current Control Technique for a Single-Phase Inverter with Bipolar and Unipolar Modulations”, Transactions of the Institute of Electric Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Vol.128-D, No.4, pp. 402-410, 2008. 45. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, “A Comparison between Random Hysteresis Current Control Technique with Bipolar and Unipolar Modulations”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 4, No 1, pp. 1-8, 2008. 46. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, “A New Adaptive Hysteresis Current Control with Unipolar PWM Used in Active Power Filters”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 4, No 1, pp. 9-16, 2008. 47. Alireza Nami, Hoda Ghoreishy, Firuz Zare, “A Novel Random Hysteresis Current Control for a Single-Phase Inverter”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 4, No 3, pp. 285-292, 2008. 48. Firuz Zare, G. Ledwich, “A hysteresis current control for single-phase multilevel voltage source inverters: PLD implementation”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.: 17, Issue 5, Sep 2002 Page(s): 731 –738 49. Firuz Zare, G. Ledwich, “Reduced layer planar busbar for voltage source inverters”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 17, Issue 4, July 2002 Page(s): 508 -516 Refereed Conference Papers 50. M. Babaie, P. Talebizadeh, S. Saha, H. Rahimzadeh, Firuz Zare and R.J. Brown, "Residence Time Investigation in a Co-axial Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor", The 4th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2012), Gold Coast, Australia, November 25-27, 2012 51. Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “A Flexible Solid-State Pulsed Power Topology”, 15th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC 2012 ECCE Europe 52. Negareh Ghasemi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Chris Langton, “A High Frequency Current Source Converter with Adjustable Magnitude to Drive High Power Piezoelectric Transducers”, 15th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC 2012 ECCE Europe 53. G. Mokhtari, Firuz Zare, G. Nourbakhsh, A. Ghosh, “A New DER Coordination in LV network Based on the Concept of Distributed Control”, the 3rd symposium of Power Electronics and Distributed Generation, Aalborg, Denmark, June 25-28 2012. 54. G. Mokhtari, Firuz Zare, G. Nourbakhsh, A. Ghosh, “Common DC Link in Residential LV Network to Improve the Penetration Level of Small-Scale Embedded Generators”, the 3rd symposium of Power Electronics and Distributed Generation, Aalborg, Denmark, June 25-28 2012. 55. Farhad Shahnia, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare “An Approach for Current Balancing in Distribution Networks with Rooftop PVs to the Submission Site”, IEEE PES General Meeting, 22 - 26 July 2012, San Diego, CA, USA 56. Negareh Ghasemi, Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Chris Langton, Peter Weber, “Power Electronic Converters for High Power Ultrasound Transducers”, 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), July 2012 in Singapore 57. Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Parallel and Series Configurations of Flyback Converter for Pulsed Power Applications”, 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), July 2012 in Singapore 58. Hajarossadat Asgarifar, Adekunle Oloyede, Firuz Zare, Christian M. Langton, “Evaluation Cortical Bone Elasticity in Response to Pulse Power Excitation using Ultrasonic Technique”, The Ninth IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMed), Innsburck Austria, Feb 2012. 59. Sumit Mazumder, Farhad Shahnia, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Excess Power Circulation in Distribution Networks Containing Distributed Energy Resources to the Submission Site”, IEEE PES General Meeting, 22 - 26 July 2012, San Diego, CA, USA. 60. Ghasemi, Negareh, Firuz Zare, Langton, Christian and Ghosh, Arindam, “A new unequal DC link voltage configuration for a single phase multilevel converter to reduce low order harmonics” In Proceedings of the 14th European Power Electronic (EPE) Conference, Birmingham, UK, Sep 2011. 61. F. Shahnia, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage correction in low voltage distribution networks with rooftop PVs using custom power devices,” the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Conference, IECON, Melbourne, 2011. 62. F. Shahnia, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage unbalance sensitivity analysis of plug-in electric vehicles in distribution networks,” the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference AUPEC 2011, Brisbane, 2011. 63. Ritwik Majumder, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh and Firuz Zare, "Stability Analysis for Multiple Voltage Source Converters Connected at a Bus", The First International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, ENERGY 2011, Venice/Mestre, Italy, May 22-27, 2011. 64. Zabihi, Sasan, Zabihi, Zeynab, Firuz Zare “A solid state Marx generator with a novel configuration”. In 19th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering Proceedings, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), 2011. 65. Firuz Zare, Jafar Adabi Firouzjaee, Alireza Nami, Arindam Ghosh “Common mode voltage in a motor drive system with PFC”, The 14th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, Republic of Macedonia, Aug 2010. 66. Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh and Firuz Zare, “Tuning harmonic absorption of voltage source converters,” 14th IEEE Int. Conf. on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP), Bergamo, Italy, Sept., 2010. 67. R. Majumder, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Operation and control of hybrid microgrid with angle droop controller,” IEEE Asia-Pacific Region-10 Conference TENCON’10, Fukuoka, Japan, Nov., 2010. 68. F. Shahnia, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage unbalance reduction in low voltage distribution networks with rooftop PVs,” Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference AUPEC, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010. 69. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz. Zare, G. Ledwich, A. Ghosh, “A novel efficient repetitive high voltage pulsed power supply” In: The 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, 5-8 December 2010, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 2010. 70. Zabihi, Sasan, Firuz Zare, Ledwich, Gerard, Ghosh, Arindam “A resonant based Marx generator” Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Power Quality for the 21st Century, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010. 71. Shahnia, Farhad, Majumder, Ritwik, Ghosh, Arindam, Ledwich, Gerard, Firuz Zare, “Sensitivity analysis of voltage imbalance in distribution networks with rooftop PVs”, In Proceedings of IEEE General Meeting, Power Systems Engineering in Challenging Times, Minnesota, 2010. 72. Neda Shahabi, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, and Ghosh, Arindam , A new configuration for planar magnetic elements to reduce the capacitive coupling, EPE-Power Electronics and Motion Control, Macedonia Sep, 2010, 73. Neda Shahabi, Arash Boora, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, and Ghosh, Arindam A novel winding structure in planar inductors to decrease the overall capacitive couplings. In: The 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, 5-8 December 2010, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 74. Sasan. Zabihi, Firuz Zare, G. Ledwich, A. Ghosh, “A New Family of Marx Generator Based on Resonant Converter” has been submitted to IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE, Georgia, Sep, 2010. 75. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, "EMI Issues in High Power and High Level Diode-clamped Converters", Australian EMC Symposium, Adelaide, September 2009, pp. 65-70. 76. Arash A. Boora, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “Efficient Voltage/Current Spike Reduction by Active Gate Signaling” , Australian EMC Symposium, Adelaide, Sep 2009, pp. 59-64. 77. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “Effective Design Parameters of Induction Generators in Shaft Voltage Reduction” European Power Electronics Conference, EPE’09, Barcelona, Spain, September 2009. 78. Firuz Zare, Jafar Adabi “Possible Solutions to Reduce Shaft Voltages in Doubly Fed Induction Generators” European Power Electronics Conference, EPE’09, Barcelona, Spain, September 2009. 79. Ramin Agha Zadeh, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Online Estimation of Signal Parameters in the Presence of Harmonic and Noise Distortion”, European Power Electronics Conference EPE’09, Spain, September 2009. 80. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, and Firuz Zare, “Operation and Control of Single Phase Micro-Sources in a Utility Connected Grid”, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Calgary Canada, 2009. 81. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Angle Droop versus Frequency Droop in a Voltage Source Converter Based Autonomous Microgrid”, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Canada, 2009. 82. Ritwik Majumder Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Stability Analysis and Control of Multiple Converter Based Autonomous Microgrid”, IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2009, pp.1663-1668. 83. Arindam Ghosh, Ritwik Majumder, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Power Quality Enhanced Operation and Control of a Microgrid based Custom Power Park”, IEEE Conference on Control & Automation, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2009, pp.1669-1674. 84. Ritwik Majumder, Farhad Shahnia, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Mickel Wishart, Firuz Zare, “Operation and Control of a Microgrid Containing Inertial and Non-inertial Micro Sources”, IEEE TENCON, Singapore, November 2009. 85. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Frede Blaabjerg, " Cross Voltage Control with Inner Hysteresis Current Control for Multi-output Boost Converter in Continuous-Conduction Mode (CCM)", European Power Electronics Conference, EPE’09, Barcelona, Spain, September 2009 86. Arash A. Boora, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “Application of Dynamic Hysteresis Band Height Control to Reduce Output Voltage Transients caused by Load Change in Boost and Positive Buck-Boost Converters”, European Power Electronics Conference, EPE’09, Barcelona, Spain, September 2009 87. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, Hidenori Akiyama "A High Voltage Power Converter with a Frequency and Voltage Controller", IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference Washington-DC, USA, 2009 88. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, "A Novel High Voltage Topology Based on a Switch-Capacitor Unit Configuration for Pulsed Power Systems" European Pulsed Power Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2009. 89. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, "A New Resonant Converter for High Voltage Pulsed Power Applications" European Pulsed Power Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2009, 90. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, Hidenori Akiyama "High Voltage Pulsed Power Using a Current Source for a Plasma System," IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, Washington, DC, USA, June 29 -July 2, 2009, pp.1256-1260. 91. Firuz Zare, "EMC and Modern Power Electronic Systems Sections 1-6", IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, USA, August 2008, pp.1- 10 92. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Rober Lorenz, “Analysis of Shaft Voltage in a Doubly-fed Induction Generator”, International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality, ICREPQ’09, Spain, April, 2009. 93. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Power System Stability and Load Sharing in Distributed Generation”, IEEE Power India Conference (POWERCON), New Delhi, 2008. 94. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Enhancing the Stability of an Autonomous Microgrid Using DSTATCOM”, Indian National Power Systems Conference (NPSC’08), IIT Bombay, 2008. 95. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Angle Droop versus Frequency Droop in a Voltage Source Converter Based Autonomous Microgrid”, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Calgary, 2009. 96. Sina Emrani, A. Tahani, Firuz Zare, “The Effect of Different Winding Techniques on the Stray Capacitances of High Frequency Transformers Used in Flyback Converters”, IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy, Malaysia, December 2008, pp. 1475–1478. 97. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Analysis, Calculation and Reduction of Shaft Voltage in Induction Generators”, International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality, ICREPQ’09, Valencia Spain, April, 2009 98. Nami, A. A. Boora, Firuz Zare, A.Ghosh, F. Blaabjerg, “A Novel Configuration for Voltage Sharing in DC-DC Converters”, International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality, ICREPQ’09, Spain, April, 2009 99. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich and Arindam Ghosh, “Comparison between Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Single Phase Multilevel Inverter with Diode-Clamped Topology” the 39th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Greece, June 2008, pp. 2921-2926. 100. Arash A Boora, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich and Arindam Ghosh, “A General Approach to Control a Positive Buck-Boost Converter to Achieve Robustness against Input Voltage Fluctuation and Load Changes”, the 39th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Greece, June 2008, pp. 2011-2017. 101. Arash A Boora, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh, “Bidirectional Positive Buck-Boost Converter: Switching and Control”, the 13th Power Electronics and Motion Conference, EPE-PEMC, Poznan, Poland, Sep 2008, pp.723-727. 102. Arash A Boora, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh, “A New DC-DC Converter with Multi Output: Topology and Control”, the 13th Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC, Poland, September 2008, 468-474. 103. Hamid Soltani, Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare; “A Pulse Width Modulation Technique for a Multilevel Converter in High Voltage High Frequency Applications”, the 13th Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC, Poznan, Poland, September 2008, pp. 718-722. 104. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh, “Bearing Damage Analysis by Calculation of Capacitive Couplings between Inner and Outer Races and Ball Bearing”, the 13th Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC, Poznan, Poland, September 2008, pp. 903-907. 105. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh, “Leakage Current and Common Mode Voltage Issues in Modern AC Drive Systems”, AUPEC 2007, Perth, December 2007. 106. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Control of Parallel Converters for Load Sharing with Seamless Transfer between Grid Connected and Islanded Modes to the Submission Site”, the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA USA, July 2008. 107. Hamid Soltani, Firuz Zare, Jafar Adabi, “Effects of Switching Time on Output Voltages of a Multilevel Inverter Used in High Frequency Applications”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Perth, December 2007. 108. Hoda Ghoreishy, Firuz Zare, Hamid Hassanpour, Gerard Ledwich, “A New Common-mode Voltage Reduction Technique for Multilevel Inverters”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Perth, December 2007. 109. Arash Boora, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, “Applications of Power Electronics in Railway System”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Perth, December 2007. 110. Kuo, Hsieh, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, “An Interactive Educational Learning Tool for Power Electronics”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Perth, December 2007. 111. Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Three Phase Hysteresis Controls- Simple Options for Improvement”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Perth, December 2007. 112. Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich “A New Hysteresis Current Control for Three-phase Inverters Based on Adjacent Voltage Vectors and Time Error”, the 38th IEEE Power Electronics Conference, USA, June 2007, pp.431-436. 113. Firuz Zare, Sasan Zabihi, Gerard Ledwich “An Adaptive Hysteresis Current Control for a Five-level Inverter for Power Active Power Filters”, the 12th European Power Electronic Conference, Denmark, September 2007. 114. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh, “A New Configuration for Multilevel Converter with Diode Clamped Topology”, The 8th International Power Engineering Conference, Singapore, December 2007, pp. 661-665. 115. Firuz Zare, J.A. Firouzjaee “Hysteresis Band Current Control for a Single-phase Z-source Inverter with Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Z-network”, IEEE Power Converter Conference, Japan, April 2007, pp. 149-156. 116. Firuz Zare, A. Nami “Novel Random Hysteresis Current Control for a Single-phase Inverter”, IEEE Power Converter Conference, Japan, April 2007 117. H.Urbina, Firuz Zare, “Calculation of Flicker levels For Different Motor Starts Using Matlab”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2006 118. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, “An Adaptive Hysteresis Current Control Based on Unipolar PWM for Active Power Filters”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. 119. Alireza Nami, Hoda Ghoreishy, Firuz Zare, “A Novel Random Hysteresis Current Control for a Single-Phase Inverter”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. 120. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, “A Comparison between Random Hysteresis Current Control Techniques with Bipolar and Unipolar Modulations”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. 121. Firuz Zare, “Modelling of Electric Motors for Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. 122. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Unipolar Hysteresis Current Control for a Single Phase Z-Source Inverter”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. 123. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Transient Analysis of a Z-source Inverter with an Asymmetrical Impedance Network”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. 124. Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich “A New Predictive Current Control Technique for Multilevel Converters”, the IEEE TENCON06 conference, Hong Kong, November 2006. 125. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, “Active Power Filters with Unipolar Pulse Width Modulation to Reduce Switching Losses”, the IEEE POWERCON06 conference, China, October 2006. 126. Miranzadeh, A. Radan, Firuz Zare, “Analysis of Random Pulse Width Modulation Techniques for Three-phase Motor Drive System”, ICEE Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, May 2006. 127. Firuz Zare, "A High Frequency Modelling of Electric Motors for Fast Switching Applications", 10th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE2003, Sep 2003, Toulous, France. 128. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, “Analysis of Planar Busbars for Power Electronics", JANZ 2002 Conference, Japan 129. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, "A Novel Current Control Technique for Multilevel Flying-Back Converter", International Conference on Electric Machine, ICEM, Aug 2002, Brugge, Belgium 130. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, “Side-by-side planar busbar for voltage source inverters”, IEEE 33rd Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2002, Vol:4, Page(s): 1925-1929. 131. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, “A New Hysteresis Current Control Technique for Multilevel Inverter”, International Power Engineering Conference, Singapore, 17-19 May 2001. 132. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, “Two Layer Planar Busbar with High Damping Ratio for Power Electronic Applications”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, 2000, Brisbane, Australia, 24-27 September 2000, (Winner of Cigre student prize) 133. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, K.Hoffman, “Physical Busbar Structure for Multilevel Converters”, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC/EECON’99, Darwin, Australia, 26-29 September 1999. 134. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, “A Plane Busbar Impedance Calculation Using Maxwell’s Equations”, IEE Conference, Eleventh International Symposium on High-Voltage Engineering, ISH 99, London, UK, 23-27 August 1999. 135. Firuz Zare, G.Ledwich, “Space Vector Modulation Technique with Reduced Switching Losses”, 8th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE’99, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-9 September 1999. Tutorials • Firuz Zare, “Pulse Width Modulated Voltage Issues in Motor Drive”, 20th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Gdansk, Poland, June 2011 • Firuz Zare (chair, presenter and organizer), “Pulse Width Modulated Voltage Issues in Motor Drive”, accepted for presentation at 14th European Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE-PEMC), Republic of Macedonia, 6-8 Sep 2010 • Firuz Zare (chair, presenter and organizer), “Electromagnetic Compatibility and Modern Power Electronics”, the tutorial notes are published in the conference proceeding, Asia-Pacific EMC conference in Singapore in 2008 • Firuz Zare (chair, presenter and organizer), “Electromagnetic Compatibility and Modern Power Electronics”, the tutorial notes are published in the conference proceeding, the IEEE EMC conference in USA in August 2008 • Firuz Zare (chair, presenter and organizer), “Electromagnetic Compatibility and Modern Power Electronics”, the tutorial notes are published in the IEEE conference proceeding, EMC’07 in Hawaii in July 2007. Professional and Group Associations Senior Member of the IEEE Member of the IEEE Power Electronics, Industrial Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility Societies Who's Who in Science and Engineering Community Service Reviewer of IEEE journals Reviewer of IEA, ICEE, AUPEC, IJST conference and journal papers Reviewer and examiner of national and international research council grants and PhD and Master theses Invited as a technical chair for national and international conferences Invited speaker for Annual Mathematics Symposium in Mazandaran in Iran in 2005 Technical chair of a tutorial session of the IEEE EMC conferences in USA in 2007 and 2008 Technical chair of a tutorial session of Asia-Pacific EMC conference in Singapore in 2008 Contact person of Center of Power Electronic System in USA during 2002-2004 Presented lectures and seminars at different universities and research centers Subject Area Coordinator of double degree courses Unit coordinator Awards John Madsen Medal from Engineers Australia in 2009 VC's Research Fellowship Award in 2009 Recipient of Early Career Research Award from QUT in 2007 CIGRE student paper prize at AUPEC 2000 conference in Australia Symposium Fellowship award by Australian Academy of Technological Science in 2001 Main Areas of Research Pulsed Power Power Electronic Converters and Control Electromagnetic Interferences Renewable Energy Systems Pulse Width Modulation Techniques External Collaborators Danish Companies Aalborg University in Denmark Kumamoto University in Japan Wisconsin University in USA Schaffler Association in Australia PLECS Company in Switzerland Teaching Areas Modern Control and Power Electronics Advanced Industrial Electronics Industrial Electronics Power Electronics Advanced Design Grants and Funding Received several ARC, CSIRO and external grants over $ 2000000 in research funding since year 2006. Selected List of Awarded Grants: ARC Discovery Grant, AU$ 240,000 Oct 2010 International Scientific Linkage Grant (The Australian Academy of Science), April 2010 VCRF PhD Scholarship Research Grant (2009) ARC Discovery Grant, AU$ 230,000, Nov 2008 CSIRO Cluster 2008, ($225,000, $237,000, $197,000) ARC LIEF 2007 ARC LIEF project supported by two universities, CQU and UQ to establish a Power Engineering Research Laboratory. We were awarded $600,000 from ARC and ~$400,000 from QUT and other collaborators. ARC Discovery Grant, AU$ 196,000 Oct 2006 ARC Linkage Grant, AU$ 195,000 plus cash and in-kind contribution from industry (AU$ 208,943), Oct 2006 QUT Incentive Grant 2006 QUT ECR Grant 2006 Selected List of PhD Student Projects: Broadmeadow, Mark "High Frequency Power Converters", (2010) Dargahi, Mahdi, "Designing a Back-to-Back Converter for Connecting RTDS to Power Network", (2011) Mokhtari, Ghassem "Active Residential Feeder to Improve Penetration Level of Small-Scale Embedded Generators" Davari, Pooya, "High Frequency High Power Converters for Industrial Applications" Graduated PhD Students Ghasemi Negareh Zabihi, Sasan Shahnia, Farhad Adabi Firouzjaee, Jafar Nami, Alireza Majumder, Ritwik Abbasalizadeh Boora, Arash Aghazadeh, Ramin Graduated M.Sc Students Shahabi, Neda Asgarifar, Hajarossadat Adabi Firouzjaee, Jafar Ghoreishi, Hoda Zabihi, Sasan Soltani, Hamid Nami, Alireza
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	I would like to thank Mr. Farshad Seifouri for IT support and my PhD students Mr. Alireza Nami, Mr. Arash Abbasalizadeh Boora and Mr. Jafar Adabi Firouzjaee who helped me to prepare the lecture notes.

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Books

1. Firuz Zare, “Advanced Power Electronics”, ISBN: 978-0-646-56126-4, www.peeeb.com, 2011

2. Firuz Zare (Editor), “Electromagnetic Interference Issues in Power Electronics and Power Systems”, Bentham Science Publishers, eISBN: 978-1-60805-240-0, 2011

3. Firuz Zare, “Power Electronics Education E-Book”, ISBN 978-0-646-49442-5, www.peeeb.com, 2008

Book Chapter

4. Alireza Nami and Firuz Zare, "Multilevel Converters in Renewable Energy Systems", In-Tech, ISBN 978-953-7619-52-7, Jan 2010

Refereed Journal Articles

5. F. Shahnia, M.T. Wishart, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich, F. Zare, "Smart demand side management of low-voltage distribution networks using multi-objective decision making", IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, April 2012, DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2011.0781

6. Negareh Ghasemi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Chris Langton, ”A Harmonic Elimination Technique for a Single-phase Multilevel Converter with Unequal DC Link Voltage Levels”, Accepted for publication in the IET transaction on Power Electronics, Feb 2012.

7. Davari, Pooya; Zare, Firuz Ghosh, Arindam; Akiyama, Hidenori, “High Voltage Modular Power Supply Using Parallel and Series Configurations of Flyback Converter for Pulsed Power Applications”, Accepted for publication in the IEEE transaction on Plasma Science, May 2012.

8. Pooya Davari, Negareh Ghasemi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Peter O’Shea, “Improving the Efficiency of High Power Piezoelectric Transducers for Industrial Applications”, Accepted for publication in the IET Science, Measurement & Technology, March 2012.

9. Jafar Adabi Firouzjaee, Firuz Zare, Arash Boora, Alireza Nami, Arindam Ghosh “Common Mode Voltage Reduction in a Motor Drive System with a PFC”, Accepted to appear in IET Power Electronics (Oct 2011).

10. F. Shahnia, R. Majumder, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage imbalance analysis in residential low voltage distribution networks with rooftop PVs,” Accepted to appear in Electric Power Systems Research (2011).

11. Zabihi, Sasan; Zabihi, Zeynab; Zare, Firuz, “A Solid State Marx Generator with a Novel Configuration”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 39, Issue 8, Pages 1721-1728, 2011.

12. Sasan Zabihi; Firuz Zare; Gerard Ledwich; Arindam Ghosh; Hidenori Akiyama, “A New Family of Marx Generators Based on Commutation Circuits”, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 18, Issue 4, pp. 1181-1188, August 2011

13. Zabihi, Sasan, Zare, Firuz, Ledwich, Gerard, Ghosh, Arindam, Akiyama, Hidenori, “A novel high voltage pulsed power supply based on low voltage switch-capacitor units” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 38(10). pp. 2877-2887, 2010.

14. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh, Hidenori Akiyama, “A New Generation of High Voltage Pulsed Power Converters”, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Volume 17, Issue 6, pp. 1901-1911, December 2010.

15. Ritwik Majumder, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh and Firuz Zare, "Control and Protection of a Microgrid Connected to Utility through Back-to-Back Converters", Electric Power Systems Research, Vol 81, Issue 7, Pages 1424-35, 2011

16. Firuz Zare, “A Practical Approach to Model Electric Motors for Electromagnetic Interference and Shaft Voltage Analysis”, the IET (formerly IEE), Transaction on Electric Power Applications, Vol 4, Issue 9, Pages 727-738, Nov 2010.

17. Arash Boora, Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Frede Blaabjerg, "Voltage Sharing Converter to Supply Single-Phase Asymmetrical Four-Level Diode-Clamped Inverter with High Power Factor Loads", IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, Volume 25, No. 10, Oct 2010.

18. Ritwik Majumder, Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh and Firuz Zare, "Droop Control of Converter Interfaced Micro Sources in Rural Distributed Generation", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Volume 25, NO. 4, October 2010.

19. Farhad Shahnia, Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, "Operation and Control of a Hybrid Microgrid Containing Unbalanced and Nonlinear Loads" Electric Power Systems Research, ELSEVIER, Vol. 80, Issue 8, Pages: 954-965, 2010.

20. Ramin Agha Zadeh, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, "Analysis of Phasor Measurement Method in Tracking the Power Frequency of Distorted Signals" the IET (formerly IEE) Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 4, Iss. 7, pp. 759–769, 2010.

22. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Load Frequency Control for Rural Distributed Generation”, Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 38, Issue 6, pages 637-656 2010.

23. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “Asymmetrical DC Link Voltage Configuration for a Diode-clamped Inverter”, Transactions of the Institute of Electric Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Vol. 130 / No. 2 , pp. 195-206, 2010.

24. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Frede Blaabjerg, “Hybrid Cascade Converter Topology with Series Connected Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Diode-clamped H-Bridge Cells”, the IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, Volume 26, NO. 1, Jan 2011.

25. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Power Management and Power Flow Control with Back-to-Back Converters in a Utility Connected Microgrid”, the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 521-834, May 2010.

26. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Improvement of Stability and Load Sharing in an Autonomous Microgrid Using Supplementary Droop Control Loop,” the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp 796-808, 2010.

27. Ramin Agha Zadeh, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Online Estimation of Distorted Power System Signal Parameters”, the IET (formerly IEE) Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol 4, issue 6, Page(s) 746-755, 2010 (Impact Factor 0.95)

28. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Load Sharing and Power Quality Enhanced Operation of a Distributed Microgrid”, the IET (formerly IEE) Renewable Power Generation Journal, 2009, Vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 109–119

29. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Frede Blaabjerg, "Multi-output DC-DC Converters Based on Diode-clamped Converters Configuration: Topology and Control Strategy", the IET (formerly IEE) Power Electronics, Vol. 3, Issue: 2, March 2010, pp. 197 - 208.

30. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Robert D. Lorenz, “Calculations of Capacitive Couplings in Induction Generators to Analyze Shaft Voltage”, the IET (formerly IEE) Power Electronics, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 379–390.

31. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Investigation of Shaft Voltage in Wind Turbine Systems with Induction Generators”, Transactions of the Institute of Electric Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Vol.129, No.11, pp. 1092-1100, 2009.

32. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Enhancing the Stability of an Autonomous Microgrid Using DSTATCOM”, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, Dec 2009

33. Ritwik Majumder, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Enhancing Stability of an Autonomous Microgrid using a Gain Scheduled Angle Droop Controller with Derivative Feedback”, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, Dec 2009

34. Arash Boor, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, “Utilizing Robustness of Positive Buck-Boost Converter against Input Voltage and Load Current Disturbances”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, March 2009.

35. Firuz Zare, “EMI in Modern AC Motor Drive Systems”, the IEEE EMC Society Newsletters, Issue No 222, pp. 53-58, Summer 2009. (Invited Paper)

36. Firuz Zare, “EMI Issues in Modern Power Electronic Systems”, the IEEE EMC Society Newsletters, Issue No. 221, pp. 66-70, Spring 2009. (Invited Paper)

37. J. Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Analysis, Calculation and Reduction of Shaft Voltage in Induction Generators”, Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, No.7, April 2009

38. Nami, A. A. Boora, Firuz Zare, A.Ghosh, F. Blaabjerg, “A Novel Configuration for Voltage Sharing in DC-DC Converters”, Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, No.7, April 2009

39. J. Adabi, Firuz Zare, A. Ghosh, R.D. Lorenz, “Analysis of Shaft Voltage in a Doubly-fed Induction Generator”, Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal, No.7, April 2009

40. Hoda Ghoreishy, Firuz Zare, Hamid Hassanpour, “Controlling the Common-mode Voltage in Multilevel Inverters”, The International Journal of Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 243-251, September 2008.

41. Hamid Soltani, Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, “Effects of Switching Time on Output Voltages of a Multilevel Inverter Used in High Frequency Applications”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol 5, No 2, pp. 149-160, 2008.

42. Firuz Zare, “High Frequency Model of an Electric Motor Based on Measurement Results”, Australian journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol 4, No 1, pp. 17-24, 2008.

43. Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich “A New Predictive Current Control Technique for Multilevel Converters”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 2008, Vol 4, No 1, pp.25-35, 2008.

44. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, “A New Random Current Control Technique for a Single-Phase Inverter with Bipolar and Unipolar Modulations”, Transactions of the Institute of Electric Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Vol.128-D, No.4, pp. 402-410, 2008.

45. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, “A Comparison between Random Hysteresis Current Control Technique with Bipolar and Unipolar Modulations”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 4, No 1, pp. 1-8, 2008.

46. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz Zare, “A New Adaptive Hysteresis Current Control with Unipolar PWM Used in Active Power Filters”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 4, No 1, pp. 9-16, 2008.

47. Alireza Nami, Hoda Ghoreishy, Firuz Zare, “A Novel Random Hysteresis Current Control for a Single-Phase Inverter”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 4, No 3, pp. 285-292, 2008.

48. Firuz Zare, G. Ledwich, “A hysteresis current control for single-phase multilevel voltage source inverters: PLD implementation”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.: 17, Issue 5, Sep 2002 Page(s): 731 –738

49. Firuz Zare, G. Ledwich, “Reduced layer planar busbar for voltage source inverters”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 17, Issue 4, July 2002 Page(s): 508 -516

Refereed Conference Papers

50. M. Babaie, P. Talebizadeh, S. Saha, H. Rahimzadeh, Firuz Zare and R.J. Brown, "Residence Time Investigation in a Co-axial Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor", The 4th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2012), Gold Coast, Australia, November 25-27, 2012

51. Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “A Flexible Solid-State Pulsed Power Topology”, 15th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC 2012 ECCE Europe

52. Negareh Ghasemi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Chris Langton, “A High Frequency Current Source Converter with Adjustable Magnitude to Drive High Power Piezoelectric Transducers”, 15th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC 2012 ECCE Europe

53. G. Mokhtari, Firuz Zare, G. Nourbakhsh, A. Ghosh, “A New DER Coordination in LV network Based on the Concept of Distributed Control”, the 3rd symposium of Power Electronics and Distributed Generation, Aalborg, Denmark, June 25-28 2012.

54. G. Mokhtari, Firuz Zare, G. Nourbakhsh, A. Ghosh, “Common DC Link in Residential LV Network to Improve the Penetration Level of Small-Scale Embedded Generators”, the 3rd symposium of Power Electronics and Distributed Generation, Aalborg, Denmark, June 25-28 2012.

55. Farhad Shahnia, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare “An Approach for Current Balancing in Distribution Networks with Rooftop PVs to the Submission Site”, IEEE PES General Meeting, 22 - 26 July 2012, San Diego, CA, USA

56. Negareh Ghasemi, Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Chris Langton, Peter Weber, “Power Electronic Converters for High Power Ultrasound Transducers”, 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), July 2012 in Singapore

57. Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, Parallel and Series Configurations of Flyback Converter for Pulsed Power Applications”, 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), July 2012 in Singapore

58. Hajarossadat Asgarifar, Adekunle Oloyede, Firuz Zare, Christian M. Langton, “Evaluation Cortical Bone Elasticity in Response to Pulse Power Excitation using Ultrasonic Technique”, The Ninth IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMed), Innsburck Austria, Feb 2012.

59. Sumit Mazumder, Farhad Shahnia, Arindam Ghosh, Gerard Ledwich, Firuz Zare, “Excess Power Circulation in Distribution Networks Containing Distributed Energy Resources to the Submission Site”, IEEE PES General Meeting, 22 - 26 July 2012, San Diego, CA, USA.

60. Ghasemi, Negareh, Firuz Zare, Langton, Christian and Ghosh, Arindam, “A new unequal DC link voltage configuration for a single phase multilevel converter to reduce low order harmonics” In Proceedings of the 14th European Power Electronic (EPE) Conference, Birmingham, UK, Sep 2011.

61. F. Shahnia, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage correction in low voltage distribution networks with rooftop PVs using custom power devices,” the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Conference, IECON, Melbourne, 2011.

62. F. Shahnia, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage unbalance sensitivity analysis of plug-in electric vehicles in distribution networks,” the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference AUPEC 2011, Brisbane, 2011.

64. Zabihi, Sasan, Zabihi, Zeynab, Firuz Zare “A solid state Marx generator with a novel configuration”. In 19th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering Proceedings, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), 2011.

65. Firuz Zare, Jafar Adabi Firouzjaee, Alireza Nami, Arindam Ghosh “Common mode voltage in a motor drive system with PFC”, The 14th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, Republic of Macedonia, Aug 2010.

66. Gerard Ledwich, Arindam Ghosh and Firuz Zare, “Tuning harmonic absorption of voltage source converters,” 14th IEEE Int. Conf. on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP), Bergamo, Italy, Sept., 2010.

67. R. Majumder, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Operation and control of hybrid microgrid with angle droop controller,” IEEE Asia-Pacific Region-10 Conference TENCON’10, Fukuoka, Japan, Nov., 2010.

68. F. Shahnia, A. Ghosh, G. Ledwich and Firuz Zare, “Voltage unbalance reduction in low voltage distribution networks with rooftop PVs,” Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference AUPEC, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010.

69. Sasan Zabihi, Firuz. Zare, G. Ledwich, A. Ghosh, “A novel efficient repetitive high voltage pulsed power supply” In: The 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, 5-8 December 2010, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 2010.

70. Zabihi, Sasan, Firuz Zare, Ledwich, Gerard, Ghosh, Arindam “A resonant based Marx generator” Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Power Quality for the 21st Century, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010.

71. Shahnia, Farhad, Majumder, Ritwik, Ghosh, Arindam, Ledwich, Gerard, Firuz Zare, “Sensitivity analysis of voltage imbalance in distribution networks with rooftop PVs”, In Proceedings of IEEE General Meeting, Power Systems Engineering in Challenging Times, Minnesota, 2010.

72. Neda Shahabi, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, and Ghosh, Arindam , A new configuration for planar magnetic elements to reduce the capacitive coupling, EPE-Power Electronics and Motion Control, Macedonia Sep, 2010,

73. Neda Shahabi, Arash Boora, Firuz Zare, Gerard Ledwich, and Ghosh, Arindam A novel winding structure in planar inductors to decrease the overall capacitive couplings. In: The 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, 5-8 December 2010, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

74. Sasan. Zabihi, Firuz Zare, G. Ledwich, A. Ghosh, “A New Family of Marx Generator Based on Resonant Converter” has been submitted to IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE, Georgia, Sep, 2010.

75. Alireza Nami, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, "EMI Issues in High Power and High Level Diode-clamped Converters", Australian EMC Symposium, Adelaide, September 2009, pp. 65-70.

76. Arash A. Boora, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “Efficient Voltage/Current Spike Reduction by Active Gate Signaling” , Australian EMC Symposium, Adelaide, Sep 2009, pp. 59-64.

77. Jafar Adabi, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh, “Effective Design Parameters of Induction Generators in Shaft Voltage Reduction” European Power Electronics Conference, EPE’09, Barcelona, Spain, September 2009.

78. Firuz Zare, Jafar Adabi “Possible Solutions to Reduce Shaft Voltages in Doubly Fed Induction Generators” European Power Electronics Conference, EPE’09, Barcelona, Spain, September 2009.