On November 9th, Prof. Hirofumi Akagi, Distinguished Professor in the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Janpan, was invited to give an academic report entitled “Applications of Multilevel Converters to Grid Connections and Motor Drives” at Room 201, Engineering Building, Yuquan Campus. Prof. XU Dehong chaired the conference.
In the report, Prof. Hirofumi Akagi shared with members of faculty and students the cascaded multilevel converters and modular multilevel converters, or more strictly, modular multilevel cascade converters in a broad sense. Special attention is paid to circuit topology and control strategy, along with their applications to grid connections and motor drive systems. He also presented three downscaled motor drive systems using two kinds of modular multilevel cascade converters. After the report, the faculty and students presented actively interacted with Prof. Hirofumi Akagi on related topics.
After the conference, HU Changsheng, teacher from EE College accompanied Prof. Hirofumi Akagi to visit related laboratories of the EE College, and exchanged ideas with the relevant teachers and students.
Introduction of Prof. Hirofumi Akagi
Hirofumi Akagi received his Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in1979.Since 2000, he has been Professor, currently Distinguished Professor, in the department of electrical and electronic engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Prior to it, he was Professor at Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, from 1991 to 1999, and Assistant and then Associate Professor at Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan from April 1979 to 1991.
His research interests include power conversion systems and their applications to industry, transportation, and utility. He has authored and coauthored about140 IEEE Transactions papers, and three invited papers in the Proceedings of the IEEE.
Dr. Akagi served as the President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2007 to 2008 for two years, and the IEEE Division II Director from 2015 to 2016 for two years.
