M A Moonem, PhD

Experience

Analytics work

1. Research Specialist V

   Texas Department of State Health Services · Immunization Data Analytics · Austin, TX

   • Automated data pipelines in Python and SQL, cutting manual workload for the team.
   • Built two Python applications for end-to-end data processing, report generation and secure distribution.
   • Improved data quality metrics in the Texas Immunization Registry and reported them through Tableau and Power BI dashboards.
   • Led the Data Quality Assurance work, CDC-guided projects and the Business Intelligence support team.

   PythonSQLTableauPower BIData qualityCDC projects

2. Associate Analyst

   Infosys · Austin, TX

   • Provided advanced support for SQL, Python and AWS Lambda services behind Data Mart applications.
   • Ran big-data analytics with Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig and Informatica.
   • Built a k-nearest-neighbors classifier for facial recognition.
   • Worked in Scrum teams and evaluated business processes as an Infosys-certified Business Consultant.

   AWSPySparkHiveInformaticaAgile / Scrum

3. Research Engineer

   The University of Texas at Austin

   • Analyzed time-series data on renewable-energy penetration in the ERCOT grid.

   Engineering work from this role is under Engineering & Research.

Toolkit

Skills

Built with Claude

Recent web projects

Live tools I designed and shipped, from a paid solar-quote review service to free learning apps for students.

On GitHub

Analysis notebooks

• School_District_AnalysisStudent performance across a school district, in Python and pandas.
• Pewlett_Hackard_AnalysisAn employee database designed and queried in PostgreSQL.
• Neural_Network_Charity_AnalysisA binary classifier predicting which funded charity applicants succeed.
• PyBer_AnalysisRide-share fares and drivers by city type, visualized.
• Win-Loss-Prediction-on-Major-League-SoccerPredicting match outcomes from MLS data.

All repositories on GitHub ↗

Research & engineering roles

Career in engineering

1. Research Engineer

   The University of Texas at Austin

   • Studied renewable-energy penetration in the ERCOT grid from time-series data.
   • Designed a grid-forming inverter to connect distributed renewables to the legacy grid.
   • Developed an analog filter for secure, chaos-based data communication through a dc-dc converter.
   • Helped prepare a proposal for the DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge.

2. Adjunct Faculty

   University of Alaska Fairbanks

   • Ran a techno-economic feasibility study for a microgrid connecting 194 rural villages.
   • Analyzed market data and reported findings and recommendations.

3. Postdoctoral Researcher

   Sandia National Laboratories · Albuquerque, NM

   • Researched Li-ion battery safety through electrical signal analysis.
   • Set up an electronics lab for energy-storage and grid-integration research.
   • Designed and built an isolated dc-dc converter prototype for storage and grid use.
   • Co-authored journal papers, technical reports and U.S. patents.

4. Graduate Research Assistant

   Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute, UTSA

   • Researched solar PV converters, power electronics and power systems.
   • Built a 3.34 kW multilevel dual-active-bridge isolated dc-dc converter prototype.
   • Studied a grid-connected solar PV plant under the U.S. DOE SunShot initiative.
   • Wrote 16 undergraduate lab experiments and was a teaching assistant for 6 EE courses.

5. Assistant Divisional Engineer

   Bangladesh Telecommunications Company · Dhaka

   • Ran operations and maintenance for an international telephone exchange and led two teams of 8 engineers and technicians.

6. Assistant Manager (Project)

   Power Grid Company of Bangladesh · Dhaka

   • Evaluated $100M+ technical bids from ABB, Siemens, Tata Power and others for transmission and substation projects.
   • Supervised a 34 km 132 kV transmission line and a 225 MVA 230/132/33 kV substation, reporting to the Asian Development Bank and KfW.

Education

Degrees

1. PhD, Electrical Engineering

   The University of Texas at San Antonio

   • Dissertation: Modular multi-level power converter for large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic systems.

2. MSc, Electrical Engineering

   Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

3. BSc, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

   Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

Research areas

What I worked on

Publications

Selected papers

Peer-reviewed work, ordered by citations. Counts are from Google Scholar.

1. Analysis and control of multi-level dual active bridge DC-DC converter

   M A Moonem, H. Krishnaswami

   IEEE ECCE

   119
2. Analysis of a multilevel dual active bridge (ML-DAB) DC-DC converter using symmetric modulation

   M A Moonem, C. L. Pechacek, R. Hernandez, H. Krishnaswami

   Electronics 4(2)

   79
3. A multiresolution Taylor–Kalman approach for broken rotor bar detection in cage induction motors

   L. A. Trujillo-Guajardo, J. Rodriguez-Maldonado, M A Moonem, et al.

   IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 67(6)

   74
4. Capacitor voltage balancing in a neutral-point clamped multilevel dc-dc dual active bridge converter

   M A Moonem, T. Duman, H. Krishnaswami

   IEEE PEDG

   59
5. Control and configuration of three-level dual-active bridge DC-DC converter as a front-end interface for photovoltaic system

   M A Moonem, H. Krishnaswami

   IEEE APEC

   54
6. Electrical components for marine renewable energy arrays: a techno-economic review

   A. J. Collin, A. J. Nambiar, D. Bould, B. Whitby, M A Moonem, B. Schenkman, et al.

   Energies 10(12)

   42
7. A modular multilevel converter with power mismatch control for grid-connected photovoltaic systems

   T. Duman, S. Marti, M A Moonem, A. A. R. Abdul Kader, H. Krishnaswami

   Energies 10(5)

   35
8. Analysis of dual active bridge based power electronic transformer as a three-phase inverter

   M A Moonem, H. Krishnaswami

   IEEE IECON

   27
9. Distributed power processing based cell-level battery energy storage system

   N. Pragallapati, S. J. Ranade, M A Moonem, S. Atcitty

   IEEE PEDG

   11
10. Secure data communication through power electronic converters in a DC microgrid

    M A Moonem, X. Feng, S. Strank, R. E. Hebner

    IEEE ICDCM

    4
11. Secondary voltage and droop control strategy of parallel converters based cell-level battery applications

    N. Pragallapati, S. J. Ranade, A. Nadella, M A Moonem, S. Atcitty

    IEEE RTEICT

    2

Full list, including Sandia technical reports, on Google Scholar ↗

Teaching

Teaching & mentoring

• Wrote a PSIM power-electronics simulation manual with 16 lab experiments for EE 4763.
• Teaching assistant at UTSA for Network Theory, Power Electronics Lab, Electromagnetic Engineering and Applied Engineering Analysis.
• Tutored more than 35 students in college physics and math.