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Senior R&D Engineer | Power Electronics, Control Systems, Digital Twins, HIL, RCP, MATLAB/Simulink

Warsaw, Poland
Worldwide
PhD, Engineering Science
Warsaw, Poland
Worldwide
PhD, Engineering Science

Profile attachments

CV Oleksandr Solomakha (2025 fl2).pdf
Invitation Letter AUTOtech.agil final event.pdf
PUBLICATION LIST 2025 short.pdf
Certificates2.pdf

About me

PhD R&D expert with 20+ years in Power Electronics and Control Systems for electric drives and renewable energy, including predictive control, EMS, and real-time Digital Twins. Strong background in RCP and HIL (dSPACE, Speedgoat). Advanced MATLAB/Simulink developer for modeling, С-code generation.

ARM ArchitectureVoltage RegulatorComputer SimulationControl EngineeringControl SystemsLinuxDSpaceElectronicsEmbedded SystemsHardware-In-The-Loop SimulationMATLABElectrical Installation WorkResearch and DevelopmentRapid Control PrototypingReal Time SimulationRobust ControlSimulationsSimulinkBattery Energy Storage SystemsDigital TwinBatteriesHardware-in-the-Loop TestsControl StructuresEmbedded CoderEnergy Management
Tools & Platforms:
- Digital Twins, RCP, HIL & Power-HIL testing
- dSPACE (SCALEXIO, MicroLabBox), Speedgoat Real-Time Target
- Advantech I/O boards + Simulink Desktop Real-Time
- MATLAB/Simulink (advanced): Simscape, Power Systems, Electronics, Driveline, Control System Toolbox, Robust Control Toolbox, Simulink Control Design, Simulink Real-Time, Embedded Coder and other tools
- PLECS, Typhoon HIL

Control Engineering:
- Energy Management Systems (EMS) for renewables & BESS-based microgrids
- Automatic Voltage Regulators + Power System Stabilizers for power generators
- Active Front-End rectifiers with grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) modes
- 1- & 3-phase PFC (including interleaved topologies)
- Field-Oriented Control (FOC) for induction motors

Industrial Power Electronics Engineering:
- BESS 100 kW / 200 kWh hubs (AFE converter, LFP/LTO batteries)
- High-current DC drives up to 12 500 A, DC systems up to 180 kA / 1000 V
- Static VAR Compensator (TCR) up to 20 Mvar / 10 kV

Embedded systems:
- Texas Instruments C2000: F28388D, F28379D, F28027, F2812
- NXP ARM Cortex-M3
- Linux PC (Preempt RT, task-core allocation, real-time)

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2021

Languages

EnglishFluentRussianFluentUkrainianNative speaker

Project history

Postdoctoral Scientist

University of Stuttgart | ILH

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

5000-10.000 team member

Contribution to AutoTech.agil project (architecture and technologies for orchestrating automotive agility) on reliability study of power electronics:
- predictive control development for drivetrain inverter with a 100-second forecast horizon, based on predictive digital twin and deployed on dSPACE SCALEXIO
- Power-HIL setup and control system design for back-to-back connected 50 kW inverters (SiC MOSFET and IGBT),
- digital twin development of power electronics with degradable SiC MOSFET devices
- RCP and HIL testing in real-time mode on dSPACE hardware
- TSEPs/DSEPs extraction for predictive maintenance study
- automatization of characterization of SiC MOSFET
- synthetic data simulation for machine learning models

Deputy Technical Director

R&D Enterprise Preobrazovatel-complex

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

50-250 team member

Manage a team of professionals
Initiated and managed multidisciplinary projects:
- thyristor converters up to 12 kA, up to 930V for metallurgy and coal mines
- thyristor converters for electrolyzers
- static var compensator including TCR and LC-filters

Head of Department of Innovative Technologies

R&D Enterprise Preobrazovatel-complex

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

50-250 team member

Manage a team of professionals
Initiated and managed multidisciplinary projects:
- intelligent diagnostic system based on the digital twin concept
- implementation HIL testing using Speedgoat Performance
- development the converter unit 10kW, 50-500V for EV DC fast charging station
- development the automatic voltage regulator (AVR) with power system stabilizer (PSS) for generator excitation systems
- development the method of self-tuning parameters of current and speed PID controllers for DC drives
Power electrical circuits design for DC drives, excitation systems for power generators, softstarters, static var compensators
Simulation of DC drives (electrical, mechanical, control parts together) in fault or transient conditions and analyze results
From Design Engineer (2003) to → Head of Department of Innovative Technologies (2012)

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