Assistant Professor
519-253-3000 ext. 5489
caniggia.viana@uwindsor.ca
Office: 3026 CEI
Research Interests
- Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles
- Multi-Function Power Converters
- Harnessing Switching Harmonic Energy
- Active Power Decoupling
- Common-Made Leakage Current Mitigation
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Selected Publications
- C. Viana, M. Pathmanathan and P. W. Lehn, "Auxiliary Power Module Elimination in EVs Using Dual Inverter Drivetrain," in IEEE Transations on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 12513-12524, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2022.3176240.
- C. Viana and P.W.Lehn, "A Drivetrain Integrated DC Fast Charger with Buck and Boost Functionality and Simultaneous Drive/Charge Capability," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 903-911, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TTE.2019.2925211.
- C. Viana, M. Pathmanathan and P.W.Lehn, "Multi-Frequency Traction-to-Auxiliary Integrated EV Drivetrain: Eliminating the Need for an Auxiliary Power Module," 2022 24th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'22 ECCE Europe), Hanover, Germany, 2022, pp.1-8.