Richard Angsetya – Undergrad Intern

Richard is Indonesian and is soon to be an Electrical Engineer bachelor graduate. He is interested in power electronics and is planning to pursue a Master’s degree in Professor Kim’s lab. His research interest is in energy harvesting for wearables.

F. Selin Bagci, Richard Angsetya, Sean Logi, Katherine A. Kim, “Flexible PCB Connection Methods for Wearable Energy Harvesting Applications,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2023, pp. 1881-1887, doi: 10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131451.

Dong Heng Tsai (蔡東衡) – M.S. Student

Dong Heng Tsai received the B.S. degree in Electric Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 2023. He is a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. His research interests include power converters and battery charging.

Sean Logi – M.S. Student

Sean Logi received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Technology (NTU), Taiwan, in 2023. He is a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. His research interests include flexible PCBs for power electronics used in energy harvesting wearables.

Papers:

F. Selin Bagci, Richard Angsetya, Sean Logi, Katherine A. Kim, “Flexible PCB Connection Methods for Wearable Energy Harvesting Applications,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2023, pp. 1881-1887, doi: 10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131451.

Yun-Jen Xu (徐昀湞) – M.S. Student

Yun-Jen Xu received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taiwan, in 2023. He is a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. His research interests include the analysis of dc-dc converters.

Yu-Kai Liao (廖昱凱) – M.S. Student

Yu-Kai Liao received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taiwan, in 2022. He is a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. His research interests include circuit analysis and improving converter efficiency.

Hsin-Hsuan Tsai (蔡昕璇) – M.S. Student

Hsin-Hsuan Tsai is an incoming M.S. student in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU). She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at NTU in 2023. She received the ITRI Power School Outstanding Project Proposal Award (電網學校暨人才發展聯盟獎學金) in 2022, as well as Dean’s List Award while at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in 2020. Her research interests include grid-tied inverters and electric vehicles.

Bo-Xiang Lee (李博翔) – M.S. Student

Bo-Xiang Lee received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), Taiwan, in 2022. He is currently a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. His research interests include dc-dc converter power transfer and analysis of dc-dc converters.

Shih-Fan Liu (劉世凡) – M.S. Student

Shih-Fan Liu received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), Taiwan, in 2022. He is currently a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. His research interests include dc-dc converter development.

Darsana Deo – M.S. Student

Darsana Deo had received the Bachelor’s in Technology degree from National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), India. She received the Master’s degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan in 2024. Her research focuses on different simulation and emulation techniques of photovoltaic systems compatible for microinverter systems. In the future, she will work as a Senior Engineer in the department of Notebook Power (PSBG) at Delta Electronics, Taiwan.

Taiwei Chen (陳泰瑋) – Ph.D. Student

Taiwei Chen received his B.S. degree in Engineering Science from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). He earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (UTSA), where he was involved in research on EMI/EMC performance in power electronics. His Master’s thesis was on “Inductor Design for Common-mode and Differential Mode Inductors” published in Dec. 2014. He has more than 6 years of experience in inverter circuit design, product testing and certification as an electrical engineer in the renewable energy industry. He is pursuing his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. His research interests include energy harvesting power electronics, electric vehicles, improvement of microinverters, and electric power subsystem design of nano-satellites.

Selin Bagci – Ph.D. Student

Selin Bagci received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018 from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea. She received the M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2020 from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. Her research interests are in dc-dc converter development and control for photovoltaic energy harvesting applications.

Papers:

F. Selin Bagci, Richard Angsetya, Sean Logi, Katherine A. Kim, “Flexible PCB Connection Methods for Wearable Energy Harvesting Applications,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2023, pp. 1881-1887, doi: 10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131451.

Katherine A. Kim, F. Selin Bagci, and Kristen L. Dorsey, “Design considerations for photovoltaic energy harvesting in wearable devices,” in Scientific Reports, vol. 12, pp. 1-12, October 28, 2022, art. no. 18143, doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22232-x.

F. Selin Bagci, Katherine A. Kim, Yu -Chen Liu and Yi-Hua Liu, “Evaluation of Power Maximization and Curtailment Control Methods for Converters in Wearable Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Applications,” in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, pp. 508-520, August 2022, doi: 10.1109/OJPEL.2022.3194185.

F. Selin Bagci and Katherine A. Kim, “Performance Comparison of Burst-Mode MPPT and Perturb and Observe MPPT Algorithms for Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Applications,” in Proc. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress Exposition (ECCE), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 2021.

F. Selin Bagci and Katherine A. Kim, “Burst-Mode Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Low-Power Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Applications,” in Proc. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress Exposition Asia, Singapore, May. 2021, pp. 1-6. 

F. Selin Bagci, Katherine A. Kim, Ting-Yu Lin and Yu-Chen Liu, “Power Profile Measurement and System Design Analysis for a Wearable Photovoltaic Application,” in Proc. International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference – ECCE Asia, Nanjing, China, Dec. 2020, pp. 1469-1474.

F. Selin Bagci, Yu-Chen Liu, and Katherine A. Kim, “Low-Power Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting With Parallel Differential Power Processing Using a SEPIC,” in Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electron. Conf.,  Mar. 2019, pp. 2008-2014.