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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Japan
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
110
Citations
64292
World Ranking
97
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2018 - IEEE Medal in Power Engineering “For pioneering contributions to theory and practice of power conversion systems and their applications.”
  • 2008 - IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award For pioneering contributions to the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, and its applications to power conditioning
  • 1996 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, and to the development of active power filters for harmonic compensation in power systems.

Overview

Hirofumi Akagi is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research activity primarily spans the field of engineering, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering and control and systems engineering as subfields.

The main topics in their work include Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies, Advanced DC-DC Converters, Multilevel Inverters and Converters, Real-time Simulation and Control Systems, and HVDC Systems and Fault Protection.

Frequent publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • Energies
  • IEEE Power Electronics Magazine
  • IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications

Their recent papers cover various aspects of power electronics and converter technology. These include:

  • Design and Performance of the 850-V 100-kW 16-kHz Bidirectional Isolated DC-DC Converter Using SiC-MOSFET/SBD H-Bridge Modules, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • Power-Loss Characterization and Reduction of the 750-V 100-KW 16-KHz Dual-Active-Bridge Converter With Buck and Boost Mode, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
  • A Real-Time Real-Power Emulator for a Medium-Voltage High-Speed Electrical Drive: Discussion on Mechanical Vibrations, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
  • Evaluation of a Three-Phase Bidirectional Isolated DC-DC Converter with Varying Transformer Configurations Using Phase-Shift Modulation and Burst-Mode Switching, 2020, Energies
  • Reminiscing Prof. Akira Nabae's Successful Voyage from the Mercury Era to the Silicon Age [In Memoriam], 2021, IEEE Power Electronics Magazine

Collaborations with other researchers are part of this scientist's work, with frequent coauthors including Ryo Haneda, Kenichiro Saito, Nuraina Syahira Mohd Sharifuddin, Nadia M. L. Tan, and Fang Peng.

They have received several awards over the course of their career. These include:

  • IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, 2018, "For pioneering contributions to theory and practice of power conversion systems and their applications."
  • IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award, 2008, "For pioneering contributions to the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, and its applications to power conditioning."
  • IEEE Fellow, 1996, "For contributions to the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, and to the development of active power filters for harmonic compensation in power systems."

Best Publications

  • A New Neutral-Point-Clamped PWM Inverter

    Akira Nabae;Isao Takahashi;Hirofumi Akagi

  • Instantaneous Reactive Power Compensators Comprising Switching Devices without Energy Storage Components

    Hirofumi Akagi;Yoshihira Kanazawa;Akira Nabae

  • Instantaneous power theory and applications to power conditioning

    Hirofumi Akagi;Edson Hirokazu Watanabe;Mauricio Aredes

  • New trends in active filters for power conditioning

    H. Akagi

  • Control and Experiment of Pulsewidth-Modulated Modular Multilevel Converters

    M. Hagiwara;H. Akagi

  • The unified power quality conditioner: the integration of series- and shunt-active filters

    H. Fujita;H. Akagi

  • Classification, Terminology, and Application of the Modular Multilevel Cascade Converter (MMCC)

    H. Akagi

  • Active Harmonic Filters

    H. Akagi

  • A new approach to harmonic compensation in power systems-a combined system of shunt passive and series active filters

    F.Z. Peng;H. Akagi;A. Nabae

  • Control Strategy of Active Power Filters Using Multiple Voltage-Source PWM Converters

    Hirofumi Akagi;Akira Nabae;Satoshi Atoh

  • Trends in active power line conditioners

    H. Akagi

  • A practical approach to harmonic compensation in power systems-series connection of passive and active filters

    H. Fujita;H. Akagi

  • A Bidirectional DC–DC Converter for an Energy Storage System With Galvanic Isolation

    S. Inoue;H. Akagi

  • A Bidirectional Isolated DC–DC Converter as a Core Circuit of the Next-Generation Medium-Voltage Power Conversion System

    S. Inoue;H. Akagi

  • Control and Performance of a Transformerless Cascade PWM STATCOM With Star Configuration

    H. Akagi;S. Inoue;T. Yoshii

  • A Medium-Voltage Motor Drive With a Modular Multilevel PWM Inverter

    Makoto Hagiwara;Kazutoshi Nishimura;Hirofumi Akagi

  • State-of-Charge (SOC)-Balancing Control of a Battery Energy Storage System Based on a Cascade PWM Converter

    L. Maharjan;S. Inoue;H. Akagi;J. Asakura

  • An approach to position sensorless drive for brushless DC motors

    S. Ogasawara;H. Akagi

  • Design and performance of a passive EMI filter for use with a voltage-source PWM inverter having sinusoidal output voltage and zero common-mode voltage

    H. Akagi;H. Hasegawa;T. Doumoto

  • DC microgrid based distribution power generation system

    Y. Ito;Y. Zhongqing;H. Akagi

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideaki Fujita
Hideaki Fujita Tokyo Institute of Technology
Mauricio Aredes
Mauricio Aredes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Fang Zheng Peng
Fang Zheng Peng University of Pittsburgh
Saad Mekhilef
Saad Mekhilef Swinburne University of Technology
João L. Afonso
João L. Afonso University of Minho
Akira Chiba
Akira Chiba Tokyo Institute of Technology
Po-Tai Cheng
Po-Tai Cheng National Tsing Hua University
Dehong Xu
Dehong Xu Zhejiang University
Atsuo Kawamura
Atsuo Kawamura Yokohama National University

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