Taufik

Professor | Electrical Engineering Department

Director, Electric Power Institute

Areas of Expertise

Power Electronics

Power Systems

Rural Electrification 

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805.756.2498

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Biography

Taufik is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and director of the Electric Power Institute. His areas of interest include power electronics and power systems, focusing on DC-DC converters, utility and renewable energy applications of power electronics, microgrid, and rural electrification. He initiated the DC House project in 2010 to develop the technologies to enable the use of multiple small-scale renewable energy sources to power homes in rural areas with DC (direct current) electricity. The DC House uses a low-voltage DC distribution system to provide basic energy needs to a single family, such as lighting. The project has attracted numerous collaborations with universities abroad and resulted in DC House prototypes in Indonesia, Philippines, and at Cal Poly. Taufik’s DC House project was featured on the September 2011 issue of the EE Webpulse magazine. Taufik holds two U.S. patents: a multiphase converter to power low-voltage high-current devices, and a Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) converter, which provides a scalable, stackable, energy efficient solution to combining multiple energy sources into a DC powered house or a hybrid AC/DC house.

Education

• Ph.D., Cleveland State University, Electrical Engineering
• M.S., University of Illinois Chicago, Electrical Engineering
• B.S., Northern Arizona University, Electrical Engineering

Research Interests

• Power Electronics, Power Converter Design (DC-DC Converters, Power Supply Design, Inverters)
• Applications of Power Electronics in Power Systems, Smart Grid, Renewables, Energy Harvesting
• Power Systems and Power Electronics Modeling in PSCAD and RSCAD/RTDS