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.