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Chris Mi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone (313)583-6434
Email 226 Engineering Laboratory Building (ELB)University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan 48128
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Education
  • 11/2000 Ph.D, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 04/1988 M Sc, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
  • 07/1985 B Sc, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
Areas of Research Interests
  • Power electronics
  • Automotive electronics
  • Digital and analog electronics;
  • Electrical and hybrid vehicles
  • Electromagnetics
  • Renewable energy and distributed energy systems;
  • Permanent magnet machines
  • Induction machines; large electric motors
  • Electric drives and intelligent control
Selected Publications
  1. For complete list, visit http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~chrismi/
  2. Xi Zhang, Chunting Mi, Abul Masrur, and David Daniszewski, “Wavelet Based Power Management of Hybrid Electric Vehicles with Multiple Onboard Power Sources,” Journal of Power Sources. in press, available online August 28, 2008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2008.08.046.
  3. Hua Bai, Zhengming Zhao, and Chunting Mi, “Framework and Research Methodology of Short-Timescale Pulsed Power Phenomena in High Voltage and High Power Converter,” in press, IEEE Transactions on Industry Electronics.
  4. Changhong Liu, Chunting Mi, and Ben Q. Li, “Energy Absorption of Gold Nanoshells for Hyperthermia Therapy,” IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. , September 2008.
  5. Hua Bai, and Chunting Mi, “Eliminate Reactive Power and Achieve High Efficiency in Isolated Bidirectional DC-DC Converters Using Dual-Phase-Shift Control,” in press, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
  6. Ruifang Liu, Chunting Mi, and Wenzhong Gao, “Modeling of Iron Losses of Electrical Machines and Transformers Fed by PWM Inverters,” to appear, IEEE Transaction on Magnetics, Accepted April 7, 2008.
  7. Hua Bai, and Chunting Mi, “The Short-Timescale Pulsed Power Phenomena in High Voltage and High Power DC/DC Converters,” Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics on March 20, 2008.
  8. Chunting Mi, Hua Bai, Chongwu Wang, and Sonya Gargies, “The Operation, Design, and Control of Dual H-Bridge Based Isolated Bidirectional DC-DC Converter,” to appear, IET Power Electronics (Formerly IEE), accepted March 25, 2008.
  9. Y. Xiong, X. Cheng, Z. J. Shen, Chunting Mi, H. Wu, V. Garg, “A Prognostic and Warning System for Power Electronic Modules in Electric, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles,” To appear on IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
  10. R. C. Stevenson, R. Palma, C. S. Yang, S. K. Park, and Chunting Mi, “Comprehensive Modeling for Automotive Ignition Systems,” Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, SAE Transactions, March 2008.
  11. Chunting Mi, Fang Z Peng, Ken Kelly, and Michael O’Keefe, “Topology, Design, Analysis, Control, and Thermal Management of Power Electronics for Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles,” International Journal on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, vol. 1, no. 3, March 2008.
  12. Chunting Mi, “Field Oriented Control of Induction Motor Drives with Direct Rotor Current Estimation for Application in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles,” Journal of Asian Electric Vehicle, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1 - 4, December 2007.
  13. Abul Masrur, Hongjie Wu, Chunting Mi, Zhihang Chen, and Yi Lu Murphey, “Fault Diagnostics in Power Electronics Based Brake-by-Wire Systems,” Accepted by IEE Journal of Automotive Engineering, July 15, 2007.
  14. Yongbin Li, and Chunting Mi, “Doubly Salient Permanent Magnet Machines with Skewed Rotor and Six-State Communication Control,” To appear on IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, June 1, 2007.
  15. Wenzhong Gao, Chunting Mi, and Ali Emadi, “Modeling and Simulation of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles,” Invited paper, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 729-745, April 2007.
  16. Wenzhong Gao, and Chunting Mi, “Hybrid Vehicle Design Using Global Optimization Algorithms,” International Journal on Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1 – 7, March 2007.
  17. Margaret Ducusin, Sonya Gargies, and Chunting Mi, “Modeling of Series Hybrid Electric High Mobility multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 557-565, March 2007.
  18. Sonya Gargies, Henry Wu, and Chunting Mi, “Design and Control of an Isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter for Hybrid Vehicle Applications,” Journal of Asia Electric Vehicles, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 851-85, June 2006.
  19. Chunting Mi, “Analytical Design of Permanent Magnet Traction Drives,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1861 – 1866, July 2006.
  20. Yi Zhang, Chunting Mi, Bo Zhang, and Hui Lin, “Performance Modeling and Optimization of a Novel Multi-mode Hybrid Powertrain,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 79-89, January 2006.
  21. Mariano Filippa, Chunting Mi, John Shen, and Randy Stevenson, “Modeling of a Novel Hybrid Vehicle Test Cell Using Bond Graph,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 837-845, May 2005.
  22. Chunting Mi, Gordon R. Slemon, and Richard Bonert, “Minimization of Iron Losses of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 121 – 127, March 2005.
  23. Chunting Mi, Hui Lin, and Yi Zhang, “Iterative Learning Control of Antilock Braking of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 486-494, March 2005.
  24. Chunting Mi, Zheng Shen, and T. Ceccarelli, “Continuing Education in Power Electronics,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 183 – 190, February 2005.
  25. Haran C. Karmaker, and Chunting Mi, “Improving the Starting Performance of Large Salient Pole Synchronous Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 1920-1928, July/August 2004.
  26. Chunting Mi, Mariano Filippa, Zheng Shen, and Narashim Natarajan, “Modeling and Control of Variable-Speed Constant-Frequency Wind Power Generation Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, vol. 40, no.3, pp. 565-573, May/June 2004.
  27. Chunting Mi, Mariano Filippa, Weiguo Liu, and Ruiqing Ma, “An Analytical Method for Predicting the Airgap Flux of Interior-Type Permanent-Magnet Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 40, no.1, pp. 50-58, Jan 2004.
  28. Chunting Mi, Gordon. R. Slemon, and Richard Bonert, “Modeling of Iron Losses of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, vol. 39, no.3, pp. 734-742, May/June 2003.