Dr. Saifullah Payami

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Name: 
Dr. Saifullah Payami
Designation: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Electrical Engineering
Email: 

saif.payami@iitrpr.ac.in

Biography: 
Dr. Saifullah Payami has received his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna India in year 2016. He completed his B.Tech and M.Tech from Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in year 2007 and 2010 respectively. Dr. Payami after finishing his PhD, has worked as a Research Scientist in Rolls-Royce @ NTU Corporate Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at IIT Ropar. His research areas of interest are Multiphase (more than three phase) electrical machines and its control, design and fault diagnosis of electric machines.
Areas of Research: 
Multiphase (more than three phase) machines and its control, design and fault diagnosis of electric machines.
Education: 
PhD: Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna India in year 2016.
M.Tech in Power System & Drives, ZHCET, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India, 2010.
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, ZHCET, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India, 2007.
Work Experience: 
Worked as Research Scientist at Rolls-Royce @ NTU Corporate Lab, NTU, Singapore from February 2017 till February 2018.
Visited Power Electronics and Electric Drives lab of Qatar University, Doha Qatar for short term research from 9th April 2013 to 7th July 2013 and from 1st July 2014 to 26th September, 2014.
Selected Publications/Patents: 

[1]S. Payami, R. K. Behera and A. Iqbal, "DTC of Three-Level NPC Inverter Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive With Novel Neutral Point Voltage Balancing Scheme," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 1487-1500, Feb. 2018.

[2] S. Payami and R. K. Behera, "An Improved DTC Technique for Low-Speed Operation of a Five-Phase Induction Motor," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 3513-3523, May 2017.

[3] S. Payami, R. K. Behera, A. Iqbal and R. Al-Ammari, "Common-Mode Voltage and Vibration Mitigation of a Five-Phase Three-Level NPC Inverter-Fed Induction Motor Drive System," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 349-361, June 2015.

[4] S. Payami, R. K. Behera and A. Iqbal, "Common mode voltage elimination for three-level five-phase neutral point clamped inverter," IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Vienna, 2013, pp. 5148-5154.

[5] A. Kouzou, P. Saifullah, A. Iqbal and H. Abu-Rub, "Performance analysis of a five phase induction motor under unbalanced voltage supply," 10th International Multi-Conferences on Systems, Signals & Devices 2013 (SSD13), Hammamet, 2013, pp. 1-8.

[6] A. Iqbal, S. Payami, R. K. Behera, A. A. Abdallah and H. Abu-Rub, "Analysis of a field oriented controlled five-phase motor drive with active front end converter," 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon), Kota Kinabalu, 2012, pp. 396-401.

[7]  A. Iqbal, S. Payami, M. Saleh, A. Anad and R. K. Behra, "Analysis and control of a five-phase AC/DC/AC converter with active rectifier," 2012 22nd Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Bali, 2012, pp. 1-6.