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TAN MA, Ph.D.
707 NW 111TH
CT. Apt. 10, Miami, FL 33172
CELL: (305) 484-0062 EMAIL: TMA004@FIU.EDU
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, USA Jun. 2015
Dissertation Title: “Hybrid Power System Intelligent Operation and Protection Involving Plug-In Electric
Vehicles.”
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. Major: Control Theory & Control Engineering, Huazhong
University of Sci. &Tech (HUST), China Jun. 2009
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Major: Automation, HUST, China Jun. 2007
Research Interests
 Hybrid AC/DC Smart Grid Power System Simulation, Planning, Optimization, Operation and
Protection
 Dynamic Modeling and Control Driver Circuit Design of Power Electronic Converters (Bidirectional
DC/DC Converters, AC/DC Inverters)
 Applications of Embedded System, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation Control in Power System
 Applications of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems
 Energy Storage System (Lithium-ion Battery & Ultra-Capacitors) Modeling, Battery Charger Design,
UPS, and Energy Management Systems (EMS)
Awards and Accomplishments
 Best Paper of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Sep. 2015
 Best Research Assistant Award from ECE Department at FIU Dec. 2014
 Dissertation Year Fellowship Award from University Graduate School at FIU Jun. 2014
 DEA Fellowship Award from FIU. Excellent Research Topic. Sep. 2013
 Tuition waiver and full scholarship from University Graduate School at FIU 2009-2014
 Travel award grant, from University Graduate School at FIU 2012-2013
 Travel grant, IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Oct. 2012
 First Grade Fellowship Award at HUST 2007-2009
 Excellent Graduate Student at HUST Jun. 2007

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Research Experience & Activities
Research Fellow, Florida International University May 2014 – June 2015
 Hybrid AC/DC Smart Micro Gird Power System Design
o Developed smart grid islanding detection methodology with active and reactive power support
from DC micro grid.
o Implemented smart switching, fault detection, isolation & restoration (FDIR/FLISR),
load-shedding, static Volt Ampere Reactive (VAR) compensation and frequency regulation
functions into the smart micro grid.
o Built lab-scaled Photovoltaic (PV) emulator and implemented high efficiency Perturb and Observe
(P&O) Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques.
 Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) Smart Parking Garage Hybrid Power System Energy Management
o Designed fuzzy logic based PEVs smart charging algorithms with different scales to limit
charging impacts and fulfill Vehicle to Grid (V2G) services.
o Developed economic analysis method for smart grid planning and operation in market trends and
consulting level.
o Developed and implemented PEVs car park emulator hybrid power system.
o Hardware based implementation of the V2G, Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to House
(V2H) functions to the PEVs car park emulator hybrid power system.
Research Assistant, Florida International University May 2011 – May 2014
 Energy Storage System Modeling and Power Management
o Built high accurate lithium-ion battery State of Charge (SOC) and thermal estimation model.
o Developed lithium-ion battery bank SOC & thermal self-balancing circuit with over heat and over
charging/discharging protection functions.
o Proposed Genetic Algorithms (GA) based energy storage system optimization methodology for
smart grid with high penetrations of renewable energy resources.
 High Efficiency Power Electronics Devices Development
o Fabricated high efficiency bidirectional DC/DC converter and grid-tied bidirectional AC/DC
inverter hardware.
o Developed STM32F micro-controller based driver circuit for bidirectional DC/DC converter and
DSpace based driver circuit for grid-tied bidirectional AC/DC inverter.
o Implemented Zigbee wireless transmitters networks for power electronics devices remote control.
o Designed and implemented control, real-time monitoring, and protection of multiple power
electronics converters for the hybrid smart grid with pulse load and renewable energy resource.
 Application of Intelligent Systems for Power System Operation
o Developed Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based load forecasting methodology for local load
forecasting.
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Professional Service Activities
 Journal & Conference Reviewer
o (Journal) IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid; IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion; IEEE
Transactions on Sustainable Energy; IEEE Transactions on Industry Application; IEEE Journal:
Electric Power Components and Systems
o (Conference) IEEE Control Systems Society Annual Conference (ACC); IEEE Applied Power
Electronics Conference (APEC); IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE) annual
conference; IEEE IAS annual conference; IEEE International Conference on Industrial
Technology (ICIT) annual Conference; IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) annual
conference; Soft Computing annual conference; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) annual conference; American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) annual
conference; Design Automation Conference (DAC)
 Conference Session Chair
o IACC Session Chair of IEEE IAS annual meeting, Vancouver, BC Canada, Oct. 5-9, 2014
o IACC Session Chair of IEEE IAS annual meeting, Orlando FL, Oct. 6-11, 2013
 Member
o IEEE Membership
o IEEE Young Professionals
o IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Community
o IEEE Industry Application Society Community
o American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) member
 Conference Presentation
o Tan Ma, “Control of Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid Involving Storage, Renewable energy and Pulsed
loads,” IEEE IAS annual meeting, Dallas, Texas, Oct. 18-22, 2015.
o Tan Ma, “Aggregated Active Distribution Networks for Secondary Control of Power Systems,”
IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Denver CO, July26-30, 2015.
o Tan Ma, “Coordination Control of Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid with Solar Energy, Plug-in Electric
Vehicles and Critical Load,” IEEE Power System Conference, Clemson GA, Mar. 11-14, 2014.
o Tan Ma, “Educational Approach to the Methodology of Implementing Wireless Control of Power
Flow in Hybrid Power Systems Final,” IEEE Power System Conference, Clemson GA, Mar. 11-14,
2014.
o Tan Ma, “Economic Analysis of Real-time Large Scale PEVs Network Power Flow Control
Algorithm with the Consideration of V2G Services,” IEEE IAS annual meeting, Orlando FL, Oct.
6-11, 2013.
o Tan Ma, “Plug-in Vehicles Car Park Photovoltaic Farm Construction for Cost and Emission
Reductions,” IEEE ECCE annual meeting, Denver CO, Sep. 15-19, 2013.
o Tan Ma, “Educational Experiments in Renewable Energy Analysis, Forecasting, and Management
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in Hybrid Power System,” ASEE annual meeting, Atlanta GA, June 23-26, 2013.
o Tan Ma, “Real-Time Plug-In Electric Vehicles Charging Control for V2G Frequency Regulation,”
IEEE IECON, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 10-13, 2013.
o Tan Ma, “Optimal Charging of Plug-in Electric Vehicles for a Car Park Infrastructure,” IEEE IAS
annual meeting, Las Vegas NV, Oct. 7-11, 2012.
Publications
[1] Tan Ma, O.A. Mohammed, “Optimal Charging of Plug-in Electric Vehicles for a Car-Park
Infrastructure,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol.50, no.4, pp.2323-2330, Jul.-Aug.
2014.
[2] Tan Ma, O.A. Mohammed, “Economic Analysis of Real-Time Large-Scale PEVs Network Power
Flow Control Algorithm with the Consideration of V2G Services,” IEEE Transactions on Industry
Applications, vol.50, no.6, pp.4272-4280, Nov.-Dec. 2014.
[3] A. Mohammed, V. Salehi, Tan Ma and O.A. Mohammed, “Real-Time Management Algorithm for
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Charging Parks Involving Sustainable Energy,” IEEE
Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 577-586, Apr. 2014.
[4] L. Guo, H. Deng, B. Himed and Tan Ma, “Waveform Optimization for Transmit Beamforming
with MIMO Antenna,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol.63, no.2,
pp.543-552, Feb. 2015.
[5] M.H. Cintuglu, Tan Ma, O.A. Mohammed, “Protection of Autonomous Microgrids using
Agent-Based Distributed Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Power Deliver, To Appear.
[6] Tan Ma, M.H. Cintuglu, and O.A. Mohammed “Control of Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid Involving
Storage, Renewable energy and Pulsed loads,” IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual
Meeting, pp.1-8, Dallas, TX, Oct.18-22, 2015.
[7] M. H. Cintuglu, R. D. Azevedo, Tan Ma and O.A. Mohammed “Real-time experimental analysis
for protection and control of Smart Substations,” IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Latin
America (ISGT LA), Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 5-7, 2015.
[8] M.H. Cintuglu, Tan Ma and O.A. Mohammed “Aggregated Active Distribution Networks for
Secondary Control of Power Systems,” IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting,
pp.1-5, Denver, CO, Jul. 26-30, 2015.
[9] Tan Ma, C.R. Lashway, Y. Song, O.A. Mohammed, “Optimal Renewable Energy Farm and
Energy Storage Sizing Method for Future Hybrid Power System,” IEEE Conference on Electrical
Machines and Systems (ICEMS), pp.2827-2832, Hangzhou, China, Oct. 22-25. 2014.
[10] Tan Ma, O.A. Mohammed, “Laboratory Scaled Plug-in Electric Vehicles Car Park Infrastructure
Emulator Design,” International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER),
2014 McMaster-Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Conference Aug. 24-26, 2014.
[11] Tan Ma, B. Serrano, O.A. Mohammed, “Educational Approach to the Methodology of
Implementing Wireless Control of Power Flow in Hybrid Power Systems,” American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) annual meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Jun. 15-18, 2014.
[12] Tan Ma, B. Serrano, O.A. Mohammed, “Fuzzy Logic Based Power and Thermal Management
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System Design for Multi-cell Lithium-ion Battery Bank Protection and Operation,” IEEE Power
System Conference (PSC), Clemson, SC, Mar. 11-14, 2014.
[13] Tan Ma, B. Serrano, O.A. Mohammed, “Distributed control of hybrid AC-DC microgrid with
solar energy, energy storage and critical load,” IEEE Power System Conference (PSC), Clemson,
SC, Mar. 11-14, 2014.
[14] Tan Ma, O.A. Mohammed “Real-Time Plug-In Electric Vehicles Charging Control for V2G
Frequency Regulation,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) Annual Conference, Vienna,
Austria, Nov. 11-13, 2013.
[15] Tan Ma, O.A. Mohammed, “Economic Analysis of Real-time Large Scale PEVs Network Power
Flow Control Algorithm with the Consideration of V2G Services,” IEEE Industry Applications
Society Annual Meeting, pp.1-8, Orlando, FL, Oct. 6-11, 2013.
[16] Tan Ma, O.A. Mohammed, “Plug-in Vehicles Car Park Photovoltaic Farm Construction for Cost
and Emission Reductions,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp.
5179-5184, Denver, CO, Sept. 15-19, 2013.
[17] Tan Ma, A.T. Elsayed, O.A. Mohammed, “Educational Experiments in Renewable Energy
Analysis, Forecasting, and Management in Hybrid Power System,” American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, Jun. 23-26, 2013.
[18] A. Mohamed, C.F.D. Cossio, Tan Ma, M. Farhadi, O. A. Mohammed, “Operation and Protection
of Photovoltaic Systems in Hybrid AC/DC Smart Grids,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
(IECON) Annual Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, Oct. 25-28, 2012.
[19] Tan Ma, A. Mohamed, O.A. Mohammed, “Optimal charging of plug-in electric vehicles for a car
park infrastructure,” IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, pp.1-8, Las Vegas, NV
Oct.7-11, 2012.
[20] L. Guo, Tan Ma, H. Deng, “Optimization of Antenna Excitation Phases for Transmit Beam
Nulling with MIMO Radar,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium
(APSURSI), pp.1-2, Jul. 8-14, 2012.
[21] H. Zhang, J. Zhao, R. Wang, Tan Ma, “Multi-objective reinforcement learning algorithm and its
application in drive system,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) Annual Conference,
Orlando, FL, Nov. 10-13, 2008.
[22] Tan Ma, “Hybrid Power System Intelligent Operation and Protection Involving Plug-in Electric
Vehicles,” Ph.D. Dissertation Thesis, 2015.
Teaching Experiences & Activities
 Lecture TAs:
o 2015 EEL 6273 Power Systems Stability and Control
o 2014 EEL 6267 Application of Intelligent Systems to Power System Operations
o 2014 EEL 4241 Power Electronics
o 2013 EEL 4215 Power Systems III
o 2012 EEL 4213 Power Systems I
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 Primary Lab Instructors:
o Fall 2009, Spring 2010 EEL 3110L ‒ Circuit Lab
o Summer 2010, Fall 2010 EEL 3303L ‒ Electronics I Lab
o Spring 2011, Summer 2011 EEL 4213L ‒ Energy Conversion Lab
 Mentors/Supervisors:
o 2015 Ahmed F. Ebrahim Ph.D. Student Research Project
o 2014 Brandy Serrano, Yuan Song M.S. Students Graduate Project
o 2013 Luis Valette, Miguel Ravelo Undergraduate Research Project
o 2012 Andres Rayes Undergraduate Senior Design
Departmental/ University Service
o 2015 Referee of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition
o 2014 Referee of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition
o 2013 Referee of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition
o 2012 United States Alliance Technology Literacy (USATL) College Design Challenge
o 2012 Referee of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition
o 2010 Referee of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition
Principal Skills with Practical Experience
 Energy Management System (EMS), Data Acquisitions, Measurement and Sensors, Instrumentation,
Calibration, State Estimation. (5 years)
 Hybrid AC-DC Smart Grid, Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (Load flow, transient, stability, short
circuit, active & reactive power control, planning, State Estimation, 3 phase unbalanced study), Hardware
Design, System Control. (7 years)
 Power Electronics, Hybrid AC/DC systems, Energy Conversion Modules and Bidirectional
Converters, Renewable Energy Integration, DC/DC Converters, Switching Power Supplies and Drivers (5
years)
 Energy Storage System Modeling, Design and Management, Lithium-ion Battery, Ultra-Capacitor,
Charger Design, Energy Management System with Self-balancing and Self-protection. (3 years)
 Classical and Modern Control, PID control, Self-adaptation Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Artificial
Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Game Theory. (6 years)
 Power quality, Harmonic Analysis and Mitigation, Flicker (3 years)
 Embedded Programming & Scripting, Microcontrollers: Xilinx FPGA, Atmel, Digital Signal
Processor (DSP), ARM STM32 (5 years)
 Digital Design and Logic Circuits, Peripherals, PWM, Interrupts, RTC, ADC, DAC, UART, GPIO (5
years)
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 HMI, HIL, Automation and PLC, Design, Test, Troubleshoot of Real-Time Digital and Analog
Embedded Hardware (2-5 years)
 Product Development, PCB design, Prototyping, Manufacturing and Test Engineering (4 years)
 Technical Documentations, datasheet, application & design note for product development requirements
(5 years)
 Signal processing, Fourier and wavelet, de-noising, filtering, sampling and digitization (3 years)
 Other Engineering skills: Strong Laboratory skills, effective collaboration with team work,
multitasking, independent & self-motivated, highly result driven, quick learner, highly organized (10
years)
 Communication and networking, Technical Presentation and Professional Writing, Project Leadership
(6 years)
Computer Skills
 Engineering: NI LabVIEW, PSCAD, ETAP, DIGSILENT Power Factory, Power World, Altium
designer, EagleCAD, AcSELerator, SEL RTAC, COMSOL Multiphysics, Ansoft Maxwell, INFOLYTICA,
VECTOR FIELD OPERA, QuickField, PROTEOUS, CYMCAP, Microsoft Project, AutoCAD.
 Scripting and Programming: MATLAB (Simulink, M-File, dSpace, GUI), C/C++, Assembly,
VISUAL BASIC, MikroC Pro for ARM, MikroBasic Pro for dsPIC, ASM8051, BASCOM AVR,
PASCAL, FORTRAN, FOXPRO, QBASIC, MATHEMATICA, MATHCAD.
References
Dr. Osama A. Mohammed (Adviser)
Professor, IEEE Fellow
ECE, FIU
EC 3983, 10555 W. Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33174, U.S.
Phone: (305) 348-3040
Email: mohammed@fiu.edu
Dr. Hai Deng
Associate Professor
ECE, FIU
EC 3956, 10555 W. Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33174, U.S.
Phone: (305)348-0478
Email: Hai.Deng@fiu.edu
Dr. Jean H. Andrian
Associate Chair
ECE, FIU
EC 3913, 10555 W. Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33174, U.S.
Phone: (305) 348-1642
Email: andrianj@fiu.edu
Applicant: Tan Ma