Allan R Taylor (810) 762-9500, x5656 :Work

12037 Juniper Way (810) 282-5797 :Cell

Grand Blanc, MI 48439 [email protected] :Email

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering M.S. in Engineering (Concn. in E.E.) B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Michigan State University – Lansing, MI Kettering University – Flint, MI Kettering University – Flint, MI
'14 – '19; GPA: 4.0 '09 – '11, GPA: 4.0 '04 – '09, Graduated with Honors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Kettering University, Flint, MI (’19 – present)
Responsibilities include instruction of undergraduate & graduate Electrical Engineering courses for a total of 24 credit-hours per year,
performing laboratory demonstrations, providing academic support / advisement to students, and scoring student work & exams. Also
expected to make academic contributions to the department and to the university.

LECTURER OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Kettering University, Flint, MI (’14 – '19)

Responsibilities include instruction of undergraduate Electrical Engineering courses for a total of 24 contact-hours per year,
performing laboratory demonstrations, providing academic support / advisement to students, and scoring student work & exams. Also
expected to make academic contributions to the department and to the university.

RESEARCH ENGINEER, Kettering University, Flint, MI ('11 – '14)

Developed simulation models using MATLAB Simulink & LT Spice, hardware circuit designs using Altium Designer, and embedded
software control systems using Texas Instruments’ C2000 DSPs for a variety of power electronics converter systems. Projects
included an 11kW three-phase AC/DC power factor correction unit, a 10kW LLC resonant DC/DC converter, a Kalman Filter based
battery parameter estimation model, a 3.3kW wireless power transfer system, and a 48V 5kW three-phase inverter system.

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Kettering University, Flint, MI ('09 – '11)

Designed & assisted hardware / software construction of a $500,000 electric vehicle laboratory, funded by the U.S. Department of
Energy. Master’s thesis titled, Development of a Bench-Top Electric Vehicle Testing Laboratory, included electric motor &
dynamometer selection & control, power electronics control, power electronics modeling, and battery simulation. LabVIEW and
MATLAB heavily used in software controls and modeling. National Instruments Compact-RIO used for HiL simulation.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING VOLUNTEER, Kettering Formula Zero Team, Flint, MI ('09 – '10)
Assisted the Power Electronics & Controls group of Kettering’s zero-emissions fuel-cell Formula race car team, Formula Zero, hosted
in the Netherlands. Constructed dynamic system models for estimating peak power demands and energy demands per race to
determine sizing of energy storage components. Supported the topology & component selection for the electrical drive-train.

STUDENT CO-OP, Autoliv Electronics America, Southfield, MI ('04 – '08)

Completed a four-and-a-half year rotational program with assignments in many facets of engineering including electrical system
design, prototype / testing, warranty troubleshooting / debugging, and cost reduction / optimization. Completed an undergraduate
thesis project titled, Design & Implementation of a Serial Peripheral Interface Programming Tool, involving both hardware &
software design of a custom power supply circuit programmer for developmental time and cost savings.

CORE COMPETENCIES
•Mathematical Systems Modeling •Circuit Design & Simulation •Software / Embedded Systems
•Dynamic Control Systems •Printed Circuit Board Layout •Texas Instruments C2000 DSPs
•Alternative Energy Systems •Power Electronics •Basic Web Design

SOFTWARE / PROGRAMMING SKILLS

CAD Experience CadSoft EAGLE, ExpressPCB, Altium Designer, SolidWorks
Programming MathWorks MATLAB, National Instruments LabVIEW, C / C++ languages
Simulation MathWorks Simulink, Linear Technology LT Spice, Cadence PSPICE, Sentaurus Workbench
Embedded Systems Microchip PIC (C & Assembly), Freescale HCS11, Texas Instruments TMS320F28xxx
Microsoft Skills MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Visual Basic for Applications, Excel Macro Coding
Web Design Java, MySQL, PHP, CSS, HTML

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AWARDS & RECOGNITION
 Teaching award
 Faculty research award
 Accepted to Kettering University’s Faculty Development Doctoral Program (called the “Grow-Your-Own” PhD program) which
offers a Lecturer position and sponsors all tuition costs for my PhD degree at Michigan State University.
 Awarded full tuition waver & stipend towards Master’s Degree at Kettering University through research assistantship funded by
the U.S. Department of Energy, under a $500k grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
 Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kettering University’s Bachelor of Science undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
 A. Taylor, J. Lu, L. Zhu, K. Bai, M. McAmmond and A. Brown,
"Comparison of SiC MOSFET-based and GaN HEMT-based high-efficiency high-power-density 7.2 kW EV battery chargers,"
in IET Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 1849-1857, Sept. 2018.
 X. Wang, D. Gunasekaran, A. Taylor, W. Qian and F. Z. Peng,
"Comprehensive Design and Control of Electric Powertrain Evaluation Platform for Next Generation EV/HEV Development,"
2018 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Long Beach, CA, 2018, pp. 237-242.
 A. Taylor, G. Liu, H. Bai, A. Brown, P. M. Johnson and M. McAmmond,
"Multiple-Phase-Shift Control for a Dual Active Bridge to Secure Zero-Voltage Switching and Enhance Light-Load Performance,"
in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 4584-4588, June 2018.
 L. Zhu, A. R. Taylor, G. Liu and K. Bai,
"A Multiple-Phase-Shift Control for a SiC-Based EV Charger to Optimize the Light-Load Efficiency, Current Stress, and Power Quality,"
in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 2262-2272, Dec. 2018.
 Lu, J., Bai, K., Taylor, A. R., Liu, G., Brown, A., Johnson, P. M., & McAmmond, M.,
"A Modular-Designed Three-Phase High-Efficiency High-Power-Density EV Battery Charger Using Dual/Triple-Phase-Shift Control."
in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 8091–8100, Sept. 2018.

 Allan Taylor, Juncheng Lu, Hua Bai, Alan Brown, Matt McAmmond,
"A Model-Based Buck-Type Active Filter Using Proportional-Resonant Controller and GaN HEMTs"
2017 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Tampa, FL, 2017, pp. 3195-3199.
 Lu, J., Liu, G., Bai, H., Brown, A., Johnson, P. M., McAmmond, M., & Taylor, A. R.,
"Applying Variable-Switching-Frequency Variable-Phase-Shift Control and GaN HEMTs to an Indirect Matrix Converter EV Battery Charger,"

in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 554-564, Sept. 2017.
 Liu, G., Bai, K., McAmmond, M., Brown, A., Johnson, P. M., Taylor, A., & Lu, J.,
"Comparison of SiC MOSFETs and GaN HEMTs based high-efficiency high-power-density 7.2kW EV battery chargers,"
2017 IEEE 5th Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA), Albuquerque, NM, 2017, pp. 391-397.
 Berry, K. J., Traore, A., Krishna, A., Gangadhar, P., & Taylor, A.,
"Power Systems Infrastructure of Hybrid Electric Fuel Cell Competition Go Kart."
2017 SAE International Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants Meeting, 2017, pp. 8–13.
 Traore, A., Taylor, A., Zohdy, M. A., & Peng, F. Z.,
"Modeling and Simulation of a Hybrid Energy Storage System for Residential Grid-Tied Solar Microgrid Systems."
in Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 28–39, May 2017.

 Fei Yang; Taylor, A.R.; Hua Bai; Bing Cheng; Khan, A.A.,
"Using d–q Transformation to Vary the Switching Frequency for Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive Systems,"
in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 277-286, Oct. 2015.

 Fei Yang; Taylor, A.; Hua Bai; Bing Cheng; Khan, A.; Young Joo Lee; Zhong Nie,
"Using D-Q transformation to variable switching frequency PWM control for interior permanent magnet synchronous motor drives,"
2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Pittsburgh, PA, 2014, pp. 5192-5197.
 Fei Yang; Allan Taylor; Hua Bai; Bing Cheng; Arshan Khan; Young Joo Lee; Zhong Nie
"Application of variable switching frequency PWM control with power loss prediction in surfaced-mounted PM synchronous motor,"
2014 IEEE Conference and Expo Transportation Electrification Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific), Beijing, 2014, pp. 1-4.
 Fei Yang; Chenguang Jiang; Taylor, A.; Hua Bai; Kotrba, A.; Yetkin, A.; Gundogan, A.,
"Design of a High-Efficiency Minimum-Torque-Ripple 12-V/1-kW Three-Phase BLDC Motor Drive for Diesel Engine Emission Reductions,"
in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 3107-3115, Sept. 2014.
 Li, Yu; Taylor, Allan; Bai, Kevin,
"A hybrid observer for the full-speed-range sensorless control of interior permanent magnet motor drives,"
2014 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Dearborn, MI, 2014, pp. 1-5.

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 A. Taylor, C. Jiang, K. H. Bai, A. Kotrba, A. Yetkin and A. Gundogan,
"Design of a high-efficiency 12V/1kW 3-phase BLDC motor drive system for diesel engine emissions reductions,"
2013 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, 2013, pp. 1077-1081.
 C. Duan, C. Jiang, A. Taylor, and K. Bai,
"Design of a zero-voltage-switching large-air-gap wireless charger with low electric stress for electric vehicles,"
in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1742-1750, November 2013.
 Chenguang Jiang; Taylor, A.; Chen Duan; Bai, K.,
"Extended Kalman Filter based battery state of charge (SOC) estimation for electric vehicles,"
2013 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, 2013, pp. 1-5.
 Chen Duan; Chenguang Jiang; Taylor, A.; Bai, K.,
"Design of a zero-voltage-switching large-air-gap wireless charger with low electrical stress for Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles,"
2013 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, 2013, pp. 1-5.
 Guo, Wei; Bai, Kevin; Taylor, Allan; Patterson, Jeff; Kane, James,
"A novel soft starting strategy of an LLC resonant DC/DC converter for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles,"
2013 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, 2013, pp. 2012-2015.

 Bai, H.; Taylor, A.; Guo, W.; Szatmari-Voicu, G.; Wang, N.; Patterson, J.; Kane, J.,
"Design of an 11 kW power factor correction and 10 kW ZVS DC/DC converter for a high-efficiency battery charger in electric vehicles,"
in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 1714-1722, Nov. 2012.
 Taylor, A.; Xuntuo Wang; Hua Bai; Szatmari-Voicu, G.; Patterson, J.; Kane, J.,
"Design of A 97%-efficiency 10kW power factor correction for fast electric chargers of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles,"
2012 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Dearborn, MI, 2012, pp. 1-6.
 Wei Guo; Hua Bai; Szatmari-Voicu, G.; Taylor, A.; Patterson, J.; Kane, J.,
"A 10kW 97%-efficiency LLC resonant DC/DC converter with wide output voltage range for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle battery chargers,"

2012 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Dearborn, MI, 2012, pp. 1-4.

PATENTS

 A. R. Taylor, A. W. Brown, P. M. Johnson, "Multi-Phase-Shift Control of a Power Converter,"

U.S. Patent No. WO2019064259A1. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2019.
 A. A. Khan, Y. J. Lee, B. Cheng, H. Bai, F. Yang, A. Taylor, “Control Techniques for an Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor of an
Electrified Vehicle,” U.S. Patent No. US9312800B2. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2014.

GUEST LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS

- Sensorless motor control, um Dearborn

- PhD research talk to ku
- Electric bike talk to IEEE group

GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
 Member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society – Awarded to the top 25% of Juniors & top 33% of Seniors.
 Member of the Phi Kappa Phi “All Majors” Honor Society.
 Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 ECE-101 MATLAB & C Programming  EE-424 Power Electronics & Applications
 IME-100 Interdisciplinary Design & Manufacturing  EE-391 PCB Design & Testing
 EE-212 Applied Electrical Circuits  EE-491 Vector Control of AC Motors
 EE-320 Electronics 1

EXTRACIRRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Acting as a Kettering University Faculty Advisor to:
 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Lambda Epsilon chapter at Kettering University. Duties include giving guest lectures, attending
weekly homework study sessions, and providing academic guidance / support.

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 Eta Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society, Theta Epsilon chapter at Kettering University. Duties include assisting with
initiation / rituals, attending member meetings, assisting with the completion of annual chapter reports, and acting as a liaison to
the organization’s program director.
 Kettering University EV Kartz electric go-kart racing team. Duties include assisting student members with electrical powertrain
design / testing, attending group meetings, and promoting the team on campus.
 Assisting the Shell Eco Marathon fuel efficiency challenge Kettering University design team.

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