Education

  • B.A. Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande – PB, Brazil, 03/2004
  • B.A. Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande – PB, Brazil, 03/2005
  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande – PB, Brazil, 04/2007

Awards & Honors

  • IUPUI Prestigious External Award Recognition (PEAR) Recipient, 5/2013
  • Senior Member of IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 12/2012
  • Best Paper Award - International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, IEEE - Industrial Electronics Society, 9/2011
  • Scholarship in Research Productivity of CNPq (The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – Brazilian agency) – Level 2, 4/2011

Selected Publications

  • E. C. dos Santos Jr., J. H. G. Muniz, E. R. C. da Silva, C. B. Jacobina, "Nested Multilevel Topologies". IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 4058-4068, Aug. 2015., 8/2015
  • G. A. de A. Carlos, C. B. Jacobina, E. C. dos Santos Jr., E. L. L. Fabricio, N Rocha. "Shunt Active Power Filter with Open-End Winding Transformer and Series Connected Converters". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 51, No 4, pp. 3273-3283, July-Aug. 2015., 8/2015
  • I. S. Freitas, M. M. Bandeira, F. Salvadori, S. A. da Silva, L. Barros, C. B. Jacobina and, E. C. dos Santos Jr. "A Carrier Based PWM Technique for Capacitor Voltage Balancing of Single-Phase Three-level Neutral-Point-Clamped Converters". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 28, No. 3, March 2015., 3/2015
  • R. L. de A. Ribeiro, T. Oliveira, R. M. de Sousa, E. C. dos Santos Jr., A. M. N. Lima, "A Robust DC-Link Voltage Control Strategy to Enhance the Performance of Shunt Active Power Filters without Harmonic Detection Schemes". IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, No. 2, Feb. 2015., 2/2015
  • C. B. Jacobina, N. Rocha, G. A. de A. Carlos, E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Flexible Series/Parallel AC-DC-AC Motor Drive System". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 51, no 1, pp. 259-270, Jan./Feb., 2015., 2/2015
  • E. C. dos Santos Jr., N. Rocha, C. B. Jacobina, "Suitable Single-phase to Three-phase AC-DC-AC Power Conversion System". IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.30, no.2, pp.860,870, Feb. 2015., 2/2015
  • Book: Advanced Power Electronics Converters: PWM Converters Processing AC Voltages, ISBN: 978-1-118-88094-4, 384 pages, Wiley-IEEE Press, 11/2014
  • N. Rocha, C. B. Jacobina, E. C. dos Santos Jr., R. M. B. Cavalcanti, "Parallel Single-Phase Ac-Dc-Ac Shared-leg Converters: Modelling, Control and Analysis". International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol.61, pp. 27-38, Oct. 2014., 10/2014
  • C. B. Jacobina, N. Rocha, N. S. M. L. Marinus, E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Single-Phase to Three-Phase Dc-Link Converters with Reduced Controlled Switch Count". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April, 2014., 4/2014
  • D. A. Fernandes, F. F. Costa and E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Digital-Scalar PWM Approaches Applied to Four-Leg Voltage-Source Inverters". IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.60, no.5, pp.2022-2030, 2013., 9/2013
  • E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Dual-Output Dc-Dc Buck Converters with Bidirectional and Unidirectional Characteristics". IET Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 6, Iss. 5, pp. 999–1009, May 2013., 5/2013
  • E. C. dos Santos Jr. and E. R. C. da Silva. "Power Blocks Geometry Applied to the Building of Power Electronic Converters". IEEE Transactions on Education, vol.56, no.2, pp.191-198, May 2013., 5/2013
  • E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Configuration 5S: A Bi-directional ac-dc Converter". Brazilian Power Electronics Transactions, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 529-537, 2012., 9/2012
  • E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Series-Voltage-Action Converter". IET Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.5, no.7, pp.1127-1136, Aug. 2012., 8/2012
  • E. C. dos Santos Jr., C. B. Jacobina, E. R. C. da Silva and N. Rocha. "Single-phase to Three-phase Power Converters: State of the Art". IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, v. 27, no. 5, pp. 2437-2452, May 2012., 5/2012

Expertise

Power Electronics and Motor Drive Systems

Interests

Power Electronics, Renewable Energy System and Motor Drive Systems.