INTI International University, Malaysia
Research Fellow, February 2026 to December 2028 · Visiting Scholar, July 2026
- Two workshops for INTI students and faculty, July 2026
- Joint research and academic exchange
Research
Power converters, validated on hardware
My research turns control ideas into working converters and measures them properly: DC-DC conversion, solar MPPT, EV charging and digital control.
Research areas
What I work on
DC-DC converters
Interleaved boost, dual active bridge and GaN buck converters, validated on hardware.
Solar PV and MPPT
MPPT algorithms under partial shading, tested on PV simulators.
EV charging and batteries
Bidirectional conversion, CC-CV charging and battery systems.
SiC and GaN devices
Wide-bandgap switching, gate drive and measurement.
Digital and FPGA control
Real-time control on FPGA, DSP and microcontroller platforms.
Home energy management
Optimisation methods to reduce peak demand and consumer cost.
Selected publications
Five papers
A. Singaravelan, B. Gunapriya, S. Sujitha, V. Sekhar, “Design and implementation of wireless charger for EV with high alignment tolerance: Gannet Optimization Algorithm (GOA),” Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 47(3), 719–734, 2026.
T. Poompavai, M. Kowsalya, A. Singaravelan, et al., “Standalone solar water pump incorporating modified seven-level inverter and fitness dependent optimizer based MPPT technique,” Discover Applied Sciences, 8(9), 974, 2026.
A. Singaravelan, A. Shibindas, N. Samanvita, et al., “Closed-loop PI control of a buck converter on Wavect TruControl: a hardware-validated approach for power conversion,” IEEE i-PACT, 2025.
A. Singaravelan, M. Kowsalya, J. Prasanth Ram, B. Gunapriya, Y. Kim, “Application of two-phase simplex method (TPSM) for an efficient home energy management system to reduce peak demand and consumer consumption cost,” IEEE Access, 9, 63591–63601, 2021.
A. Singaravelan, M. Kowsalya, “A novel minimum cost maximum power algorithm for future smart home energy management,” Journal of Advanced Research (Elsevier), 8(6), 731–741, 2017.
Scopus: 261 citations, h-index 11 · Google Scholar: 325 citations
International collaboration
POSTECH and INTI
POSTECH, South Korea
Postdoctoral Researcher, Energy Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, 2024–2025
- Partial-shading MPPT on a TI F280049C controller, demonstrated on a 10.5 kW interleaved boost converter
- Solar inverter performance testing and inverter, PV and grid simulator communication checks for Korean certification
Research guidance
Ph.D. supervision
- Ph.D. scholarsThree scholars: two at Nitte (Deemed to be University), one at VTU.
- M.Tech and UGGuides M.Tech and undergraduate hardware projects.
Academic service
Session chair
- Dec 2025Session Chair, IEEE SPERT 2025, SVNIT Surat
- Jul 2026Session Chair, ICNGSMCA-26, Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
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