Raed Saasaa is a power electronics specializing in the design and analysis of switched mode power supplies covering a wide range of applications. After earning a master’s degree from UBC, he spent 7 years in the power electronics industry between Murata, AMD and Fraunhofer ISIT. He then joined RPTU MEAS lab as a research assistant pursuing a PhD. Currently, his research interests are high-quality output inverters for motor drives.

• Research Assistant Fraunhofer ISIT 2023-2024
  • Research on MMC converter for MV applications.
• Sr. Silicon Designer at AMD, Canada 2021-2023
  • Analysis and test of power converters for discrete graphics boards.
• Power electronics engineer at Murata, Canada 2016-2021
  • Development of 6.6kW EV charger.
  • Development of a 300W Lithium-Ion Charger.
  • Development of an Open Frame 650W Industrial Power Supply.
  • Design and Implementation of an Integrated Single-Stage PFC.
• Research Scientist at UBC, Canada. 2013-2016

• Converter topology modeling and control
• Resonant DC/DC converters
• Multilevel converters

• Analog Electronics
• Power Electronics

• “A Series Resonant Energy Storage Cell Voltage Balancing Circuit,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, May 2019.

• “A Single-Stage Interleaved LLC PFC Converter,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Milwaukee, USA, 2016.
• ”A Series Resonant LC Converter for Voltage Equalization of Series Connected Energy Storage Devices,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, USA, 2016.

• AMD Spotlight Award. 2022
• UBC Graduate Fellowship, Canada. 2013, 2015

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LTspice, SIMPLIS, PSIM, Mathcad, Altium, Cadence, QSpice, MATLAB

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