FACULTY
Tuhin K. Das
Associate Professor
Office: 218 Engineering I, HySES Lab: 267 Engineering I
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-2450
Ph: (407) 823-5792
E-mail: tdas@ucf.edu
Resume

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

Farzad Aalipour-Hafshejani (pursuing PhD)

Research: Distributed Power Systems

Bilal Salih (pursuing PhD)

Research: Dynamic Characteristics and Response of Hybrid Energy Systems. Fundamental Studies and Feedback Control for Robust Performance.

Lietsel Richardson (pursuing MS)

Research: Robotics, Bio-mimetics

Jonathan McConnell (pursuing MS)

Research: Dynamic Modeling and Transient Simulation of Steam-Power Systems, Boiler Simulation and Boiler Dynamics.

Mohammad Odeh (pursuing MS)

Research: TBD


UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

Raul Quintana

Research: Experimental aerodynamics, controller implementation and lab testing of quadcopters.


PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS

Singith Abeysiriwardena (PhD, 2018)

Research: Nonlinear Observers, Nonlinear Dynamics, Optimal and Robust Guidance and Navigation. Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems, Energy Optimal Guidance in Uncertain Flow Fields.

Position after graduation: Employed at Micronix USA

Andres Caesar (MS, 2018)

Research: Dynamic Modeling and Transient Simulation of Steam-Power Systems

Position after graduation: Employed at Siemens Energy, Inc.

Vaahini Ganesan (PhD, 2017)

Research: Compressive Sensing with Applications to Mechanical Vibrations, Structural Health Monitoring.

Position after graduation: Employed at Qualcomm-TDK.

Patricia Coronado Domenge (PhD, 2016)

Research: Fluid Structure Interactions, Large Eddy Simuations, Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Position after graduation: Employed at Everix Optical Filters.

Sadaf Mackertich (MS, 2016)

Research: Airborne Wind Energy

Position after graduation: PhD program at UCF from Fall 2016.

S. Omid Madani (PhD, 2014)

Research: Decentralized control paradigms for power networks. Transient control for classes of linear and non-linear systems. Emphasis on hybrid fuel cell ultracapacitor systems.

Position after graduation: Employed at CD-adapco

Amit Bhattacharjee (MS, 2014)

Research: Power electronics, Power grids, Power converter control, Hardware-in-the-loop simulations

Position after graduation: Pursuing PhD in Electrical Engineering at UCF

Vaahini Ganesan (MS, 2014)

Research: Sensing Techniques for Structural Health Monitoring

Position after graduation: Pursuing PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UCF

Sigitas Rimkus (Graduated 2014 - MS)

Research: Wind turbines, Wind energy harvesting using kite-type devices. Experimental test-stand for studying the characteristics of autorotation.

Position after graduation: Employed at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Bilal Salih (Graduated 2014 - MS)

Research: Wind Energy harvesting from high altitudes. Preliminary dynamic modeling of an autogyro.

Position after graduation: PhD program at HySES lab from Fall 2014.

Sophie Su (Graduated: 2011)

Research: Charcterization of Li-Ion batteries and their integration into hybrid energy systems.

Position after graduation: Employed at Shusaku Yamamoto, Japan.

Steven Snyder (Graduated: 2011)

Research: Robust control of hybrid fuel cell systems.

Position after graduation: Pursuing PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

William Nowak (Graduated: 2011)

Research: Addressing transient response of SOFCs. Developing generalized control structure for hybrid SOFCs to study their performance.

Position after graduation: Pursuing PhD at North Carolina State University

Jeff Swing (Graduated: 2011)

Research: Optimal control of thermal transients in printing processes. Application of model predictive control approach.

Employment: Employed at Xerox Research Center, Webster, NY

Kalyan Nishtala (Graduated: 2010)

Research: Modeling and simulation of plasma based fuel reformers. Modeling of integrated reformer and boiler based solid oxide fuel cell systems with JP8 fuels.

Position after graduation: Employed at Novus Engineering, Delmar, NY

Greg Semrau (Graduated: 2010)

Research: Modeling, characterization and control of wind turbine systems.

Position after graduation: Employed at Southwest Windpower, Flagstaff, AZ.

Tahar Allag (Graduated 2010)

Research: Robust nonlinear control of fuel cell based hybrid power systems. Hardware-In-the-Loop test stand development.

Position after graduation: Employed at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX.

Eric Steffan (Graduated 2010)

Research: Design, analysis and fabrication of a circular mobile robot with diametrically translating legs.

Position after graduation: Pursuing PhD in microsystems at RIT with concentration in Biomedical engineering. Recipient of GAANN fellowship provided by US department of Education.

Andrew Slippey (Graduated: 2009)

Research: Model development and characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems.Generalized approaches and methods for analysis.

Ryan Weisman

Research: Battery model development and simulation based studies of load regulation in hybrid fuel cell systems.

Tejeshwar Chandra Sekhar

Research: Plasma reformer model development and simulations.


PAST UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

Yasmeen Elsheikh

Research: Design of mechatronics experimental setup for fluid-structure interaction. Energy systems simulations.

Caroline Anderson

Research: Experimental aerodynamics, Dynamics of Autorotation.

Richard Carrillo

Research: Design of experiments and data acquisition for autorotation.

Position after graduation: Graduate studies at the University of Florida.

James Mussi

Dynamic model development and simulation of partial oxidation reformer. Simulation based characterization of planar SOFC systems.

Dylan Rider

Survey of portable SOFC systems and reformers. Pressure dynamics implementation in steam reformer based SOFC system models.

Tony Burnette

Fuel cell power electronics component model development. Battery and DC/DC converter modeling and simulation.Simulation based characterization of fuel cell. Hybrid fuel cell simulation and Hardware-In-the-Loop test stand development.

John Zeffer

Fuel cell power electronics component model development. Ultra-capacitor and DC/DC converter modeling.Modeling of balance-of-plant turbo-machinery components for fuel cell systems. Hardware-In-the-Loop test stand development.