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PRIYANKA
YUSSUF
S Y NOP S I S
An astute and focused Power Electronics Engineer with M. Tech from National Institute of Technology and 1
year of experience working in electric vehicle technologies, DC-DC Converters, Pulse-width modulation, Digital Signal Processo
C AL C OMP E T E NC I E S
Professional
Product Management | Research & Development | FMEA | Reverse Engineering | Continuous Improvement | Time study | Prob

Software
Matlab | Simulink | LTSpice | CCS for DSP | Vivado | KiCad | PSIM | C | C++ | Python

HDL
Verilog

Soft Skills
Decision Making | Problem Solving | Team Building | Communication | Crisis Management | Conflict

Management | Negotiation

P R OF E S S I ONA L E D UC A T I ON

2016 – 2018 Master of Technology in Power Electronics and Power Systems

National Institute of Technology (NIT), Goa, India

CGPA: 8.22/10

2011 – 2015 Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Government Engineering College Idukki, India

Percentage: 77.6%

PROF ESSI ONAL SKIL LS A ND QUALIFICA TIONS

• 1 year of experience working with electric vehicle power train system, specially focusing on ac motors and
controllers.
• Provided support for analyzing high level electric vehicle requirements.
• Implemented a dyno setup for performing load testing of PMAC motors by back to back connection.
• Intermediate knowledge of Python and C.
• Hands on experience on working with CAN 2.0b, UART communication protocols, SAE J1772 standards for automobile appli
• Developed basic understanding of EVSE, On-board chargers and charge controllers, Developed functional
test cases for VCU firmware in Python.
ROLES & RESPONSI BILI TIES
POWER ELECTRONICS ENGINEER
Boson Motors, Pune, India Since Sep 2018
• Assisted in vehicle charger control algorithm development in Matlab Simulink.
• Worked with Embedded coder in Matlab to test SIL and PIL simulation for TMS320f28379d MCU.
• Responsible for circuit topology selection, components selection, control algorithm development, prototyping, testi
• Research on power converters, and identify research trends, challenges, opportunities and business case for automotive mar
• Support power electronics integration in other vehicle subsystems
• Effectively communicate results by writing papers and technical reports and making presentations
• Evaluate competitor, supplier and national laboratories research on the above fields
• Participates as an active member of development team
• Be present at vehicle builds on behalf of Product Engineering
• Discuss with research personnel to resolve problems and develop design.
• Check engineering test results for application to system developments.
T R AI NI NG P R OGR A ME S A T T E ND E D

Feb 2019 Certification on EV Technology

Two days intensive training workshop conducted by CoE for xEV Drives & Executive

Development Centre NFTDC, Hyderabad, India

May 2017 Advanced Adjustable Speed AC Motor Drive System

Five days intensive training workshop conducted through Global Initiative of

Academic Networks (GIAN) under the guidance of Prof. Prasad. N. Enjeti (Texas A&M University, USA)

Dec 2016 Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems

Ten days intensive training workshop conducted through Global Initiative of

Academic Networks (GIAN)

A CA D E MI C PR OJ E C TS
Efficiency Improvement in DC-DC Converters for Portable Applications
National Institute of Technology, Goa 2017-2018

This work includes a control scheme for improving the power efficiency of a low voltage DC-DC Buck Converters for battery pow

Incremental Conductance MPPT Algorithm for PV Systems

National Institute of Technology, Goa 2017-2018

In this work, a Maximum power point tracking techniques based on incremental conductance is implemented in

MATLAB Simulink. In the incremental conductance (INC) technique, the terminal voltage of the solar array is
always adjustable with a power converter system and MPPT controller actions to harvest maximum energy as cost effective an
Microcontroller based DC Motor Speed Control
Government Engineering College, Idukki, Kerala 2013-2014
A microcontroller based control system to change the speed and direction of rotation of DC motor. Armature
voltage is varied by pulse width modulation (PWM) of input DC voltage by using the developed microcontroller’s program. Thus
P E R S ONAL VITAE
Age 26
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Single
Languages Known : English, Hindi, and Malayalam
Current Address : Pune, Maharashtra, India
n, Digital Signal Processors etc.

ment | Time study | Problem Solving/Analysis

ards for automobile applications.

opment, prototyping, testing and validation of power electronics products.

case for automotive markets
Converters for battery powered portable applications. Control scheme includes a mode changing strategy to operate the converter with highe

ergy as cost effective and sizeable solutions of power crisis during the load demand.

ontroller’s program. Thus the speed of the DC motor is changed. Direction of rotation of DC motor is changed by initiating an interrupt signa
operate the converter with higher efficiency for a wider load range. Also adjustable output voltage ripple cont rol is employed for optimizing

d by initiating an interrupt signal to the microcontroller using push switches.

rol is employed for optimizing conduction and switching losses. An efficiency of 87.89 % is achieved at 650mA for a buck converter of 1-A,
mA for a buck converter of 1-A, 5- to 1.8-V. As a result, the battery life in a typical microprocessor applications can be improved significantly.
can be improved significantly.