Akif Zia Khan

Akif Zia Khan received the B.Eng. degree in electrical power engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, the M.Sc. degree in electrical power systems from the North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU), Hong Kong SAR in 2011, 2014, and 2020, respectively. From 2014 to 2020, he has served as a Lecturer and from 2020 to 2021 as an Assistant Professor at U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan. During the spring of 2016, he was a visiting research scholar with the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ, USA. In 2019, he was a visiting Ph.D. scholar with the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE), Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University (AAU), Aalborg, Denmark. He is currently working as a Senior Scientist at Hitachi Energy Research Center, Krakow, Poland. His current research interests include the design, modeling, and control of high-power and high-frequency bidirectional resonant power converters for various power processing and industrial applications. He is an author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and contributes regularly as a reviewer for various international journals and conferences.