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Arooj Akbar

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I graduated in December 2017 from the University of Nottingham, UK with a Master’s degree in Power Electronics and Drives. I obtained my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.My first research experience was as a research intern at EPFL after being selected at the Summer@EPFL program in Switzerland. Following that I did on research focusing on power quality and power factor correction at LUMS. Now I am working as a PhD student at EPFL in the Applied Superconductivity Group on the Fastgrid project. I work for fast hotspot detection technique using optical fiber sensing in superconducting fault current limiters.

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Drazen Dujic

Drazen Dujic is an Associate Professor and Head of the Power Electronics Laboratory at EPFL. He received the Dipl.Ing. and MSc degrees from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the PhD degree from Liverpool John Moores University, UK in 2008. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Assistant with the Faculty of Technical Sciences at University of Novi Sad. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Associate with Liverpool John Moores University. After that he moved to industry and joined ABB Switzerland Ltd, where from 2009 to 2013, he was Scientist and then Principal Scientist with ABB Corporate Research Center in Baden-Dättwil, and from 2013 to 2014 he was R&D Platform Manager with ABB Medium Voltage Drives in Turgi. He joined EPFL in 2014 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. His research interests include the areas of design and control of advanced high power electronic systems and high-performance drives, predominantly for the medium voltage applications related to electrical energy generation, conversion and storage. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 scientific publications and has filed 16 patents. In 2018 he received EPE Outstanding Service Award from European Power Electronics and Drives Association and in 2014 the Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Power Electronics. He is Senior Member of IEEE, and serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IET Electric Power Applications. He is Chairman of the Swiss IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Chapter and IEEE PELS R8 Chair.

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A fibre optic and machine learning based health monitoring system for superconducting power applications in modern supergrids

Optical fibre based quench detection in HTS applications using machine learning classifiers

Optical fibre sensing for fast hotspot detection in SFCLs