Dr. Pedro Filipe da Costa Goncalves, PhD

Education

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Energy), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2022
MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Energy), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2013

Academic and industry

Assistant Lead Converter Control Engineer, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus, Denmark
Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Research Engineer at ENDIPREV S.A., Porto, Portugal

Editorial activities

Associate Editor in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (May 2026 - Present)
Associate Editor in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (Mar. 2026 - Present)
Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions in Power Electronics (Feb. 2026 - Present)

Memberships

IEEE Senior Membership, 2025
Member of several IEEE societies: PELS, IES and IAS.
Member of several IEEE committees from PELS and IES.

Honors and awards

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics: Outstanding Reviewer, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification: Outstanding Reviewer, 2025
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion: Star Reviewer, 2025
Best reviewers of ECCE25: Track G (Electric Machines), 2025
IEEE Portugal Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2023
Best Presentation Award IEEE SEST, 2020

ELEC 331 Fundamentals of Electrical Power Engineering

ELEC 273 Basic Circuit Analysis

Grid-forming converters can improve the resilience of electric grids with high shares of renewable generation, while multiphase machines can improve reliability and fault-tolerance in demanding energy and transportation applications. Both require advanced control methods to maintain high performance under challenging operation conditions.

My research focus on control, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of electric drives and power converters. Current topics focus on grid forming converters with applications on renewable generation, such as solar and/or wind, and include:

• Model predictive control.
• Robust model predictive control.
• Fault diagnosis (sensors, semiconductors, etc.).
• Fault-tolerant control.

PhD position on control of grid-forming converters

I'm seeking outstanding and highly motivated PhD candidates for multiple PhD positions on grid-forming control of power converters starting in Winter or Summer 2027. The students are expected to develop model predictive control strategies for grid-forming converters that improve the resilience and reliability of renewable generation systems. 

PhD position on fault diagnosis of grid-forming converters

I'm seeking an outstanding and highly motivated PhD candidate for a PhD position on fault diagnosis of grid-forming converters starting in Winter or Summer 2027. The student is expected to develop fault diagnostic techniques that are able to detect and identify faults in grid-forming converters without extra sensors. 

MASc position on control of grid-forming converters

I'm seeking an outstanding and highly motivated MASc candidate for a MASc position on grid-forming control of power converters starting in Winter or Summer 2027. The student is expected to implement, test and compare different control methods for grid-forming power converters. 

Applicants should possess:

• A Bachelor's degree (for MASc applicants) or a Master's degree (for PhD applicants) in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum GPA equivalent to 82% for consideration for a full scholarship package.
• A passion for research and innovation in the areas of control, power electronics and electric drives.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• A willingness to conduct research in areas aligned with the supervisor's funded research projects.
• An interest in publishing research findings in leading journals and conferences and contributing to patent development and technology transfer activities.

• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink and PLECS.
• Experience in DSP and/or FPGA programming.
• Laboratory testing, experimental validation, and hands-on prototyping experience.
• Experience in writing technical publications.

Interested candidates should submit their application by email to pedro.dacosta@concordia.ca.
The application package should include:

• University transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended. 
• A brief description of the candidate's research, experimental, industrial, and/or design experience, with particular emphasis on hands-on laboratory work and technical skills. 
• A current curriculum vitae (CV). 
• A list of publications, conference papers, patents, or other research outputs, if applicable. Candidates are encouraged to identify those that best represent their research contributions and expertise.

Journal papers

[1] J. Yang, P. F. da Costa Gonçalves, S. Pradhan, F. Sun and B. Nahid-Mobarakeh, "Enhanced Sector Selection Method in FCS-MPC for Dual Three-Phase High-Saliency PMSMs," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 2585-2598, April 2026, doi: 10.1109/TTE.2025.3649003.
[2] B. Batkhishig, P. F. da Costa Gonçalves et al., "Deadtime Compensation Method for Synchronous Optimal Pulsewidth Modulation," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 200-209, Jan. 2026, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2025.3617868.
[3] B. Batkhishig, P. F. da Costa Gonçalves, G. Pietrini, B. Nahid-Mobarakeh and A. Emadi, "PWM Techniques for Two-Level Voltage Source Inverters: A Comparative Study," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 86235-86255, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3563115.
[4] A. Karuvaril Vijayan, B. Batkhishig, P. F. da Costa Gonçalves et al., "Torque Harmonic Minimization Optimal Pulse Pattern Modulation Technique for Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motors," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 8115-8127, June 2025, doi: 10.1109/TTE.2025.3536163.
[5] A. Karuvaril Vijayan, P. F. da Costa Gonçalves, B. Batkhishig et al., "Integrated FCS-MPC with Synchronous Optimal Pulse-Width Modulation for Enhanced Dynamic Performance in Two-Level Voltage-Source Inverters" in Electronics 2025, 14, 3757, doi: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS14193757.
[6] B. Batkhishig, P. F. da Costa Gonçalves, G. Pietrini, B. Nahid-Mobarakeh, R. Baranwal and A. Emadi, "Enhanced Hybrid PWM for the Closed-Loop Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 3785-3795, Feb. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TTE.2024.3446767.
[7] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Fault-Tolerant Predictive Current Control of Six-Phase PMSMs With Minimal Reconfiguration Requirements," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 2084-2093, April 2023, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3223515.
[8] P. Gonçalves, S. Cruz and A. Mendes, "Fault-Tolerant Predictive Current Control of Six-Phase PMSMs with a Single Isolated Neutral Configuration," in Machines 2022, 10(12), 1152, doi: 10.3390/MACHINES10121152.
[9] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Disturbance Observer Based Predictive Current Control of Six-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines for the Mitigation of Steady-State Errors and Current Harmonics," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 130-140, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2021.3053885.
[10] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Online Diagnostic Method for the Detection of High-Resistance Connections and Open-Phase Faults in Six-Phase PMSM Drives," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 345-355, Jan.-Feb. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2021.3120239.
[11] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Multistage Predictive Current Control Based on Virtual Vectors for the Reduction of Current Harmonics in Six-Phase PMSMs," in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 1368-1377, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TEC.2021.3055340.
[12] P. Gonçalves, S. Cruz and A. Mendes, "Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control of Six-Phase Asymmetrical Machines—An Overview," in Energies 2019, 12(24), 4693, doi: 10.3390/EN12244693.
[13] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Bi-subspace predictive current control of six-phase PMSM drives based on virtual vectors with optimal amplitude," in IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 1672-1683, November 2019, doi: 10.1049/IET-EPA.2019.0136.
[14] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Design of a six-phase asymmetrical permanent magnet synchronous generator for wind energy applications," in IET The Journal of Engineering, vol. 2019, no. 17, pp. 4532-4536, June 2019, doi: 10.1049/JOE.2018.8175.
[15] S. M. A. Cruz, G. D. Marques, P. F. C. Gonçalves and M. F. Iacchetti, "Predictive Torque and Rotor Flux Control of a DFIG-DC System for Torque Ripple Compensation and Loss Minimization," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 9301-9310, Dec. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2018.2818667.
[16] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz, L. M. A. Caseiro, M. B. Abadi and A. M. S. Mendes, "Fault-tolerant predictive power control of a DFIG for wind energy applications," in IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 969-980, June 2019, doi: 10.1049/IET-EPA.2016.0494.

Conference papers

[1] J. Yang, P. F. da Costa Gonçalves, S. Pradhan and B. Nahid-Mobarakeh, "A Bi-subspace Model Predictive Controller Based on Incremental Model for the Dual Three-phase PMSM Drives," 2024 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific), Xi'an, China, 2024, pp. 181-186, doi: 10.1109/ITECAsia-Pacific63159.2024.10738713.
[2] B. Batkhishig, P. F. da Costa Goncalves, B. Nahid-Mobarakeh and A. Emadi, "Look-up Table Size Reduction Strategy for Synchronous Optimal Pulse Width Modulation," 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Nashville, TN, USA, 2023, pp. 4851-4855, doi: 10.1109/ECCE53617.2023.10362353.
[3] P. F. da Costa Gonçalves, S. Dhale, B. Batkhishig, J. Yang and B. Nahid-Mobarakeh, "Comparative Study Between Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control and Digital Sliding-Mode Control for the Reduction of Current Harmonics in Six-Phase PMSM Drives," 2023 IEEE International Electric Machines & Drives Conference (IEMDC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/IEMDC55163.2023.10238854.
[4] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Open-Phase Fault Diagnosis in Six-Phase PMSM Drives Based on the Harmonics of the Measured Secondary Subspace Currents," IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, 2020, pp. 4863-4868, doi: 10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254472.
[5] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Sensitivity to Parameter Mismatch in a Bi-Subspace Predictive Current Control Strategy for Six-Phase PMSM Drives," IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, 2020, pp. 4875-4880, doi: 10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254871.
[6] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Diagnosis of Open-Phase Faults and High Resistance Connections in Six-Phase PMSM Drives," 2020 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), Istanbul, Turkey, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SEST48500.2020.9203465.
[7] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Suppression of Steady-State Errors in Predictive Current Control of Six-Phase PMSM Drives," 2020 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), Istanbul, Turkey, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SEST48500.2020.9203014.
[8] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Predictive Current Control of Six-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines with Modulated Virtual Vectors," IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019, pp. 6229-6234, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927113.
[9] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Predictive Current Control of Six-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Based on Virtual Vectors with Optimal Amplitude and Phase," 2019 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), Porto, Portugal, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SEST.2019.8849124.
[10] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Fixed and Variable Amplitude Virtual Vectors for Model Predictive Control of Six-Phase PMSMs with Single Neutral Configuration," 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2019, pp. 267-273, doi: 10.1109/ICIT.2019.8755217.
[11] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Predictive Current Control Based on Variable Amplitude Virtual Vectors for Six-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines," 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2019, pp. 310-316, doi: 10.1109/ICIT.2019.8755033.
[12] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Comparison of Model Predictive Control Strategies for Six-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines," IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2018, pp. 5801-5806, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2018.8591239.
[13] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Fault- Tolerant Predictive Control of a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator with Minimal Hardware Requirements," IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2018, pp. 3357-3362, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2018.8592825.
[14] P. F. C. Gonçalves, S. M. A. Cruz and A. M. S. Mendes, "Design of a six-phase asymmetrical permanent magnet synchronous generator for wind energy applications," 9th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD), Liverpool, UK, 2018.
[15] P. Gonçalves, S. Cruz, L. Caseiro, M. Abadi and A. Mendes, "Predictive power control of a DFIG driven by a back-to-back three-level neutral-point clamped converter," 2017 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), Miami, FL, USA, 2017, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/IEMDC.2017.8002105.
[16] M. B. Abadi, S. M. A. Cruz, A. P. Goncalves, P. F. C. Goncalves et al., "Detection of stator and rotor faults in a DFIG based on the stator reactive power analysis," IECON 2014 - 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Dallas, TX, USA, 2014, pp. 2037-2043, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2014.7048782.
[17] P. F. C. Gonçalves and S. M. A. Cruz, "A new delay compensation method for finite control set model predictive control of induction motor drives," 2014 16th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, Lappeenranta, Finland, 2014, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/EPE.2014.6910763.

Book chapters

[1] S. M. A. Cruz and P. F. C. Goncalves, "Control and Diagnosis of Faults in Multiphase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generators for High-Power Wind Turbines," Electrical and Mechanical Fault Diagnosis in Wind Energy Conversion Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ECCE53617.2023.10362353.