Ayan Mallik

Assistant Professor, Engineering, The Polytechnic School

Ayan Mallik (SM' 22) is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Dr. Mallik is a graduate faculty of the Electrical Engineering program at the School of ECEE, Clean Energy Systems program at The Polytechnic School (TPS), and Systems Engineering program at the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks (MSN) at ASU.

Dr. Mallik received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Dr. Mallik's research interests include the modeling and control of complex multi-order power converters, switching modulator optimization, multi-objective design optimization of power electronics systems, highly efficient and high-density wide bandgap power conversion solutions in the applications of various clean energy systems, including transportation electrification, extreme environment space, grid-integration of renewables and storage, among many others. Dr. Mallik is an author/co-author/co-inventor of over 110 peer-reviewed publications and 6 pending/issued US Patents. Dr. Mallik, an IEEE Senior Member, is currently serving as an Associate Editor (AE) of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and had previously served as an AE for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Dr. Mallik is a recipient of various awards and recognitions, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2023, ASU Fulton School top 5% teaching recognition award (2023 and 2024), featured author in IEEE Xplore (July 2024), the IEEE TPEL Prize Paper Award in 2023, first place winner in the "Help Others ProgrammE (HOPE)" competition organized by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), the first place in Dean's Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition at UMD in 2019, UMD ECE department’s distinguished dissertation award (2019), the University of Maryland's Invention of the Year Award in 2018, Jimmy H.C. Lin invention award at UMD (2018), the third place in Allegheny Region Cleantech University Prize Collegiate Competition in 2017 sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, and numerous best paper awards in IEEE conferences, among many others.

Lab website: https://peacelab-ayan.com/

Our current research areas include:

• Extreme-environment Wide Bandgap (WBG) Radiation Tolerant Power Electronics for Space Applications.
• Multiport multidirectional power conversion (M2PC) for grid-storage-renewables integration
• Electromagnetic interference (EMI) modeling, estimation, and mitigation through high-precision parasitic estimation methodologies and active filtering approaches.
• Physics-informed machine learning based uncertainty estimation in power electronics – both component level and system level.
• High-density wide bandgap semiconductor based high-performance DC-DC power conversion (400V-48V, 400V-12V, 48V-1V) for next generation data centers and point-of-load (PoL) applications.
• High-efficiency high-density wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor based On-Board Chargers for Electric Vehicles with Reduced Charging Time.
• Analyses of the Effects on the Battery Life under V2G Operation – Bidirectional Onboard Chargers for Electric Vehicles.
• Microgrid controls and distributed energy resources (DER)
• Cyber-resiliency of EV charging networks : Real time intelligent data processing algorithm-enabled cyber-threat detection and mitigation approach.

Openings for PhD Applicants: If you are highly motivated and desire to work with us on high-impact problems in Power Electronics and Energy Conversion, please send me an email with your CV and a brief cover letter. 

Brief Guidelines for PhD Application: To complete a new application, please login to the following website https://webapp4.asu.edu/dgsadmissions/Index.jsp and select 'Systems Engineering' as the PhD program. 

For applicants within ASU:

• If you are a masters or undergraduate student at ASU and would like to work with us, please send me an email with your CV and cover letter. 
• @ASU MS candidates: Those who are motivated enough to pursue MS (with thesis) or to convert MS to a PhD program may be given more preference.