Advanced Concepts and Technologies for Electric Aircraft Power Systems and Energy Management

1. Net-Zero and Aircraft Electrification Sivakumar Nadarajan 2. Innovative Microgrid Solutions for Sustainable Electric Aircraft: A Pathway to Green Aviation Pampa Sinha, Snehalika, and Kausik Paul 3. Power electronics in more electric aircrafts Sheron Figarado and Kranthi Panuganti 4. Harmonic Mitigation in Multi-Pulse Rectifiers Using DC Injection Circuits for Electric Aircraft Applications Saravana Prakash P and Kalpana R 5. DC/DC Converters in MEA Systems Xiaodong Li 6. Towards Sustainable Aviation: Power Inverters Enabling Aircraft Electrification Sze Sing Lee, Sara Hasanpour, Kazem Varesi, Felipe B. Grigoletto, and Akshay Kumar Rathore 7. Magnetic Gears: Principles, Topologies, and Applications in Rotary and Linear Machines Neel Shrivastava and S. Sashidhar 8. Prognostics and Health Management for Sustainable Electric Aircraft: Pathways to Reliability and Innovation Md Asif Hussain, Nishant Mishra, Ananda Shankar Hati, Altaf Q. H. Badar, and Prashant Kumar 9. Electrical Insulation for Powertrain Components in Electric Aircraft Shakthi Prasad D. and Shesha H. Jayaram 10. Quality Assurance tests for motors used in Electric Aircrafts Shesha H. Jayaram and Shakthi Prasad D. 11. Electrical Machine Insulation Systems for Aerospace Electrification Shesha H. Jayaram

Biography

Akshay Kumar Rathore, an IEEE Fellow, is a Professor and Director of Power and Energy Systems research Area in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Victoria, BC, Canada and M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards, such as the IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, the Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, the IEEE David Irwin Early Career Award, the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, the Nagamori Award, and the distinguished alumnus award (young achiever) from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India. During his tenure at Concordia University in Canada, he was listed in the Provost Circle of Distinction in 2021.

Rathore has contributed significantly to the design of novel power electronic converter topologies and modulation strategies, publishing about 300 research articles including about 105 IEEE Transactions. He edited a book on advanced concepts and technologies for electric transportation, published by CRC Press in 2022. He has delivered above 200 invited talks, keynotes, and tutorials in several events across the globe. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, Chair of the IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award Committee, and serves on the committees for the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, the IEEE Nikola Tesla Award, and the IEEE Fellow Committee. He has Chaired 3 technical committees in the IEEE, served on the IAS Executive board from 2017-2025 and IES AdCom from 2016-2017 and 2021-2026.