Dr Negareh Ghasemi
Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Researcher biography
Dr Negareh Ghasemi received her BSc and MSc degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2003 and 2007 respectively. She obtained her PhD in Power Electronics in 2013. She received Outstanding Thesis Award from Queensland University of Technology in 2013. She has more than 10 years working experience in industry and academia. Dr Ghasemi is an active member of IEEE Women in Engineering and an Editorial Board member of International Journal of Power Electronics. Dr Ghasemi has been collaborating with several international universities and institutes in Japan and Germany. Her research interests include Power Electronics and Control, Pulsed Power and Ultrasound Systems and their applications.
Book Chapter
Bansal, Nidhi, Zare, Farzan, Ghasemi, Negareh and Zhang, Jie (2022). Pulsed electric field processing of milk. Non-thermal processing technologies for the dairy industry. (pp. 11-34) edited by M. Selvamuthukumaran and Sajid Maqsood. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003138716-2
Journal Articles
Zare, Farzan, Ghasemi, Negareh, Bansal, Nidhi and Hosano, Hamid (2023). Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods. Physics of Life Reviews, 44, 207-266. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.007
Zhang, Jie, Ghasemi, Negareh, Zare, Firuz, Duley, John A., Cowley, David M, Shaw, Paul N., Koorts, Pieter and Bansal, Nidhi (2022). Nanosecond pulsed electric field treatment of human milk: effects on microbiological inactivation, whey proteome and bioactive protein. Food Chemistry, 406 135073, 135073. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.135073
Leung, Shui Cheung Edgar, Shukla, Pradeep, Chen, Dechao, Eftekhari, Ehsan, An, Hongjie, Zare, Firuz, Ghasemi, Negareh, Zhang, Dongke, Nguyen, Nam-Trung and Li, Qin (2022). Emerging technologies for PFOS/PFOA degradation and removal: a review. Science of the Total Environment, 827 153669, 153669. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153669
Zare, Farzan, Ghasemi, Negareh, Bansal, Nidhi, Garg, Abhishek and Hosano, Hamid (2021). Increasing the production yield of white oyster mushrooms with pulsed electric fields. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 49 (2) 9340594, 805-812. doi: 10.1109/TPS.2021.3053071
Ghasemi, Negareh, Zhang, Jie, Zare, Firuz and Bansal, Nidhi (2020). Real-time method for rapid microbial assessment of bovine milk treated by nanosecond pulsed electric field. IEEE Transactions On Plasma Science, 48 (12) 9250655, 4221-4227. doi: 10.1109/tps.2020.3033556
Hussin, Manal, Chan, Tommy H. T., Fawzia, Sabrina and Ghasemi, Negareh (2020). Identifying the prestress force in prestressed concrete bridges using ultrasonic technology. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 20 (10) 2042014, 2042014. doi: 10.1142/S0219455420420146
Ghasemi, Negareh, Gbeddy, Gustav, Egodawatta, Prasanna, Zare, Firuz and Goonetilleke, Ashantha (2019). Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from wastewater using dual-mode ultrasound system. Water and Environment Journal, 34 (S1) wej.12540, 425-434. doi: 10.1111/wej.12540
Ghasemi, Negareh, Zare, Firuz and Hosano, Hamid (2019). A review of pulsed power systems for degrading water pollutants ranging from microorganisms to organic compounds. IEEE Access, 7 8871099, 150863-150891. doi: 10.1109/access.2019.2947632
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, Mahinda, Ghasemi, Negareh and Meng, Fanrong (2019). Feedforward control method for single-phase inverters with non-linear load. IET Power Electronics, 12 (12), 3131-3140. doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2018.5273
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, Mahinda, Ghasemi, Negareh and Gong, Bing (2019). Elimination of current oscillation in isolated three-port power converters using active damping method. IET Power Electronics, 12 (11), 2802-2809. doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2018.5613
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, D. Mahinda, Ghasemi, Negareh and Fu, Bin (2019). Virtual resistor-based integrated DC bus voltage conditioner for stability improvement of cascaded power converters. IEEE Access, 7 8764334, 95959-95969. doi: 10.1109/access.2019.2929104
You, Jiang, Fan, Weiyan, Ghasemi, Negareh and Vilathgamuwa, Mahinda (2019). A novel modulation and control method for double-switch buck-boost converter. IET Power Electronics, 12 (5), 1160-1169. doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2018.5907
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, D. Mahinda, Ghasemi, Negareh and Malan, Wynand Louis (2019). An active power decoupling method for single phase DC/AC DAB converters. IEEE Access, 7 8618299, 12964-12972. doi: 10.1109/access.2019.2893286
You, Jiang, Liao, Mengyan, Chen, Hailong, Ghasemi, Negareh and Vilathgamuwa, Mahinda (2018). Disturbance rejection control method for isolated three-port converter with virtual damping. Energies, 11 (11) 3204, 3204. doi: 10.3390/en11113204
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, Mahinda and Ghasemi, Negareh (2018). DC bus voltage stability improvement using disturbance observer feedforward control. Control Engineering Practice, 75, 118-125. doi: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.03.018
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, Mahinda and Ghasemi, Negareh (2018). Loop-shaping method based current sharing controller design for parallel DC/DC converters. IET Power Electronics, 11 (12), 1937-1945. doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2017.0146
Etesami, Mohammadhossein, Vilathgamuwa, D. Mahinda, Ghasemi, Negareh and Jovanovic, Dejan P. (2018). Enhanced meta-heuristic methods for selective harmonic elimination technique. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14 (12) 8272454, 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TII.2018.2799602
Mokhtari, Ghassem, Nourbakhsh, Ghavameddin, Anvari-Moghadam, Amjad, Ghasemi, Negareh and Saberian, Aminmohammad (2017). Optimal cooperative management of energy storage systems to deal with over- and under-voltages. Energies, 10 (3) 293, 293. doi: 10.3390/en10030293
Ghasemi, Negareh, Zare, Firuz, Davari, Pooya, Vilathgamuwa, Mahinda, Ghosh, Arindam, Langton, Christian and Weber, Peter (2017). Dissimilar trend of nonlinearity in ultrasound transducers and systems at resonance and non-resonance frequencies. Ultrasonics, 74, 21-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ultras.2016.09.023
Etesami, Mohammadhossein, Ghasemi, Negareh, Vilathgamuwa, Don Mahinda and Malan, Wynand Louis (2017). Particle swarm optimisation-based modified SHE method for cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters. IET Power Electronics, 10 (1), 18-28. doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2015.0864
Ghasemi, N., Zare, F., Boora, A. A., Ghosh, A., Langton, C. and Blaabjerg, F. (2012). Harmonic elimination technique for a single-phase multilevel converter with unequal DC link voltage levels. IET Power Electronics, 5 (8), 1418-1429. doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2011.0457
Davari, P., Ghasemi, N., Zare, F., O'shea, P. and Ghosh, A. (2012). Improving the efficiency of high power piezoelectric transducers for industrial applications. IET Science Measurement and Technology, 6 (4), 213-221. doi: 10.1049/iet-smt.2011.0209
Conference Papers
Etesami, Mohammad Hossein, Vilathgamuwa, D. Mahinda, Hiller, Marc, Walker, Geoff and Ghasemi, Negareh (2019). Multi-objective modulation scheme development for optimal control of cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel inverters. 13th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS), Toulouse, France, 9-12 July 2019. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/PEDS44367.2019.8998935
Liu, Aaron Lei, Nourbakhsh, Ghavameddin, Ghasemi, Negareh, Ledwich, Gerard, Miller, Wendy and Zhu, Binxin (2019). Do real life visuals help students to learn engineering. 4th International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG 2019), Hubei, Yi-chang, China, 6-9 September 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/IGBSG.2019.8886213
Nguyen, Minh-Khai, Zare, Firuz and Ghasemi, Negareh (2018). Switched-capacitor-based nanosecond pulse generator using SiC MOSFET. Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Auckland, New Zealand, 27-30 November 2018. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/AUPEC.2018.8757883
Zare, Farzan, Naranpanawe, Lakshitha and Ghasemi, Negareh (2018). Analysis of effective pulsed power excitation for intracellular electropermeabilization. The Joint Annual Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association, Portotoz, Slovenia, 25-29 June 2018.
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, D. M., Ghasemi, N. and Malan, W. L. (2017). Analysis and Control of Integrated DC Bus Voltage Conditioner for Cascade Power Converter System. 3rd IEEE International Future Energy Electronics Conference and ECCE Asia, Kaohsiung Taiwan, 3-7 June 2017. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IFEEC.2017.7992093
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, D. M., Ghasemi, N. and Malan, W. L. (2017). LLC Circuit Based Ripple Current Suppression Method for Single Phase Bidirectional DC-AC DAB Converter. 3rd IEEE International Future Energy Electronics Conference and ECCE Asia, Kaohsiung Taiwan, 3-7 June 2017. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IFEEC.2017.7992121
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, D. M., Ghasemi, N. and Malan, W. L. (2017). Control Method for Ripple Current Reduction and Grid Current Correction in a Single Phase DC-AC DAB Converter. IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS), Honolulu Hi United States, 12-15 December 2017. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289220
Hong, Jiatu, Vilathgamuwa, D. M., Ghasemi, N., Ishrat, T. and You, Jiang (2017). A Single Phase DC-AC Dual Active Bridge Series Resonant Converter For Photovoltaic Applications. IEEE 12th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS), Honolulu Hi United States, 12-15 December 2017. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289184
Ghasemi, Negareh, Abedi, Naeim and Mokhtari, Ghassem (2016). Real-time Method for Resonant Frequency Detection and Excitation Frequency Tuning for Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers. Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Brisbane Australia, 25-28 September 2016. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/AUPEC.2016.7749329
Etesami, M. H., Ghasemi, N., Vilathgamuwa, D. M. and Malan, W. L. (2016). On Assessment of Prominent Heuristic Methods towards Selective Harmonic Mitigation. 2nd IEEE Annual Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC), Auckland New Zealand, 5-8 December 2016. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/SPEC.2016.7846205
You, Jiang, Vilathgamuwa, D. M., Ghasemi, N. and Malan, W. L. (2016). Ripple elimination for DC/AC DAB converter with phase shift and duty cycle control. 2nd IEEE Annual Southern Power Electronics Conference, SPEC 2016, Auckland, New Zealand, 5-8 December 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/SPEC.2016.7846204
Hussin, Manal , Chan, Tommy H. T., Fawzia, Sabrina and Ghasemi, Negareh (2015). Finite element modelling of lamb wave propagation in prestress concrete and effect of the prestress force on the wave’s characteristic. 10th RMS Annual Bridge Conference: Bridges – Safe and Effective Road Network, Ultimo, NSW Australia, 2 - 3 December 2015.
Nick, Shawn , Nourbakhsh, Ghavameddin , Ghosh, Arindam and Ghasemi, Negareh (2015). A technique for analysing GOOSE packets when testing relays in an IEC 61850-8-1 environment. SEAPAC 2015: South East Asia Protection and Automation Conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 17-18 March 2015.
Ghasemi, Negareh, Walker, Geoffrey R. and Broadmeadow, Mark A. H. (2015). Real Time Maximum Power Conversion Tracking and Resonant Frequency Modification for High Power Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducer. IEEE 11th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS), Sydney Australia, 9-12 June 2015. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/PEDS.2015.7203524
Narimani, A., Nourbakhsh, G., Ledwich, G. F., Walker, G. R. and Ghasemi, N. (2015). Financially Optimized Scheduling of Electric Energy Storage in Presence of Renewable Energy Resources. IEEE 6th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Aachen Germany, 22-25 June 2015. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/PEDG.2015.7223061
Davari, Pooya, Ghasemi, Negareh and Zare, Firuz (2014). Power Converters Design and Analysis for High Power Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers. 16th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE-ECCE Europe), Lappeenranta Finland, 26-28 August 2014. Piscataway NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EPE.2014.6910986
Walker, Geoffrey R., Ghasemi, Negareh, Broadmeadow, Mark A. H. and Ledwich, Gerard F. (2014). A high cell count cascade full bridge converter for wide bandwidth ultrasonic transducer excitation. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Pittsburgh, PA United States, 14-18 September 2014. New York, NY, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953686
Ghasemi, Negareh, Zare, Firuz, Ghosh, Arindam and Langton, Christian (2012). A High Frequency Current Source Converter with Adjustable Magnitude to Drive High Power Piezoelectric Transducers. 15th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference and Exposition (EPE-PEMC ECCE Europe), Novi Sad Serbia, 4-6 September 2012. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EPEPEMC.2012.6397206
Ghasemi, Negareh, Zare, Firuz, Davari, Pooya, Weber, Peter, Langton, Christian and Ghosh, Arindam (2012). Power electronic converters for high power ultrasound transducers. 2012 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), Singapore, Singapore, 18-20 July 2012. Piscataway NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICIEA.2012.6360806
Ghasemi, Negareh, Zare, Firuz, Langton, Christian and Ghosh, Arindam (2011). A new unequal DC link voltage configuration for a single phase multilevel converter to reduce low order harmonics. 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE 2011), Birmingham, UK, 30 August-1 September 2011. Piscataway NJ United States: IEEE.
Research Report
Edraki, Mansour, Zare, Firuz and Ghasemi, Negareh (2019). In-situ dewatering of processed kimberlite slimes, report to Rio Tinto Copper Diamond. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.