Group Members

Group Members

Research Members

Dr. Adel Merabet, PEng., SMIEEE

Director of the Laboratory

Graduate Students

PhD Level:

  • Valeria Montes Urrego, PhD Applied Science (Sep. 2025 - ...)

Project: Waste-to-energy transformation using thermal processing.

 

Master Level:

 

Undergraduate Students

 

 

Former Members

Graduate Students

  • Sujoy Barua, PhD Applied Science (Sep. 2021 - May 2025)

Project: Energy management of microgrid for off-grid communities: A metaheuristic optimization approach.

  • Hooman Ekhteraei Toosi, PhD Applied Science (Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2022)

Project: Designing power scheduling algorithms for electric vehicles and energy storage systems in bi-directional markets using mixed-integer programming.

  • Meftah Elsaraiti, PhD Applied Science (May 2018 - May 2023)

Project: Advanced forecasting algorithms for renewable power systems.

  • Rupak Kanti Dhar, MSc Applied Science (Sep. 2018 - Aug. 2020)

Project: Experimental validation of solar photovoltaic and battery storage-based microgrid energy management system

  • Jagwinder Dhillon, MSc Computing & Data Analytics (Oct. 2019 - Feb. 2020)

Project: Image processing and data analytics for robotics in retail applications.

  •  Karim Beddek,  PhD Engineering, University of Boumerdes, Algeria (Oct. 2015 - Mar. 2017)

         Project: Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis in wind energy conversion systems

  • Vinod Bachhao, MSc Applied Science (Sep. 2015 - Apr. 2018)

          Project: Supervisory control interface for experimental hybrid wind & solar energy system

  • Labib Labib, MSc Applied Science, (Sep. 2015 - Aug. 2017)

          Project: Dual-mode operation of grid-tied photovoltaic and wind energy conversion systems with active and reactive power injection

  • Hisham Eshaft, MSc Applied Science, (Sep. 2015 - Aug. 2017)

    Project: Grid and rotor sides of DFIG-based wind energy conversion system using sliding mode control approach

  • Zainab Mokhtar, Master of Innovation and Technology, (Jan. 2016 - Aug. 2016) 

    Project: Fuzzy logic control for stand-alone photovoltaic energy conversion system, and innovation in renewable energy

  • Khandker Tawfique Ahmed, MSc Applied Science (Sep. 2014 - Aug. 2016)

    Project: Energy management and control systems for hybrid wind-solar energy system with battery storage

  • Aman A. Tanvir, MSc Applied Science (Sep. 2014 - Aug. 2016); Control System Developer, EIT (PT: 2017-2018)

    Project: Control system for DFIG based wind energy conversion system

  • Md. Aminul Islam, MSc Applied Science (Sep. 2012 - Aug. 2014)

  Project: Power management and control for solar-wind-diesel stand-alone hybrid energy systems

  • Vigneshwaran Rajasekaran, MSc Applied Science (Sep. 2011 - Aug. 2013)

  Project: Modeling, simulation and development of supervision control system for hybrid wind diesel system

 

Undergraduate Students

  • Tanaka Akiyama, Diploma of Engineering, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, First Year Undergraduate Summer Research Awards (May–Aug. 2019), NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) (Jun.–Aug. 2020). Project: System design and development of inventory image processing and object detection.
  • Kevin Schwarer, Dip. Engineering (May 2019 - Mar. 2020)

Project: Development of navigation software for mobile robot.

  • Brooke McKenzie, Dip. Engineering (May 2019 - Aug. 2019)

       Project: Study and analysis of Conext SW Schneider microgrid

  •  Frederick Porter, Dip. Engineering (Oct. 2014 - Mar. 2015)

Project: Power electronics interface for experimental small size photovoltaic energy conversion system

  • Stephen Robinson-Enebeli, Dip. Engineering (May 2014 - August 2014)

Project: Monitoring system for pitch wind turbine experiment

  • Dulan Humber, Dip. Engineering (July 2014 - Aug. 2014)

Project: DC-DC converter based power electronics interface

  • Spencer Collier-Jarvis, Dip. Engineering (June 2013 - July 2014)

Project: Development of LabVIEW Interface for brushless motor control using NI CompactRIO

  • Magayo Macêdo, Dip. Engineering (July 2013 - Aug. 2013)

Project: Neural networks based wind speed predictive model

  • John Kerr, Dip. Engineering (Oct. 2011 - Aug. 2012)

Project: Development of power electronics interface for wind turbine experiment workstation

  • Andrew McMullin, Dip. Engineering (May 2012 - Aug. 2012)

Project: Maximum power point tracking control for wind turbine

  • Raquel Keeble, Dip. Engineering (Feb. 2012 - Mar. 2012)

Project: Power management system for wind turbine power generation