Dr. Nassar Mendalek has been from 1995 to 2004, a member of the Research Group in Power Electronics and Industrial Control at the “Ecole de Technologie Supérieure”, Montreal, Canada. He accomplished research works on modeling and control of power converters for active filtering and power factor correction. He elaborated novel nonlinear control techniques for active power filters such as sliding mode, exact non-linear and optimal predictive, and identified the operation of promising configurations. He participated in the design and realization of active filters to compensate the harmonics and correct the power factor of three-phase non-linear loads. In October 2004, he joined the teaching staff of the Electrical, Computer and Communication Department at NDU, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His fields of interest include power quality, harmonics and reactive power compensation, topologies and advanced control of switch mode power converters, drive systems, energy conversion, renewable energy and active power filters. He is a member of the Order of Engineers in Beirut and also a member of the IEEE.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada, 2003

M.Sc., Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada, 1997

B.E. in Electrical Engineering, St-Joseph University, E.S.I.B, Beirut, 1983

Refereed Journal Articles

Rahmani, S., Mendalek, N., and Al-Haddad, K. (2010) Experimental Design of a Nonlinear Control Technique for Three-Phase Shunt Active Power Filter, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Volume 57, Issue 10, pp 3364 – 3375.  

Rahmani, S., Hamadi, A., N. Mendalek, and Al-Haddad, K. (2009) A New Control Technique for Three-Phase Shunt Hybrid Power Filter, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Volume 56, Issue 8, 2904 – 2915, pp 2904 – 2915.

Conference Proceedings

Mendalek, N. (2009) Modeling and Control of Three-Phase Four-Leg, Split-Capacitor Shunt Active Power Filter, International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications, (ACTEA’09), NDU,  Lebanon.

Kanaan, H. Y., Georges, S., Mougharbel, L., Mendalek, N., and Nicolas, T. (2009) Modeling, Control and Simulation of a High-Current DC-DC Converter for Fuel Cell Applications, International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Qualities (ICREPQ’09), Spain.

Mendalek, N. (2008) Sliding Mode Control of Three-Phase Four-Wire Shunt Active Power Filter, IEEE CCECE’08, Niagara Falls, Canada.

Mendalek, N., Al-Haddad, K., Kanaan, H., and Hassoun, G. (2008) Sliding Mode Control of Three-Phase Four-Leg Shunt Active Power Filter, IEEE PESC’08, Islands of Rhodes, Greece.

Kanaan, H., Georges, S., Mendalek, N., Hayek, A., and Al-Haddad, K. (2008) A Linear Decoupling Control for a PWM Three-Phase Four-Wire Shunt Active Power Filter, IEEE MELECON’08, Ajaccio, France.

Mendalek, N., Al-Haddad, K., Fnaiech, F., and Dessaint, L.-A. (2002) Sliding Mode Control of 3-Phase Shunt Active Filter in the d-q Frame, IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference (PESC), Queensland, Australia.

Mendalek, N., Fnaiech, F., Al-Haddad, K., and Dessaint, L.-A. (2002) A Non-Linear Optimal Predictive Control of a Shunt Active Power Filter, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), Pittsburg, PA, USA.

Mendalek, N., Al-Haddad, K., Casoria, S., and Dessaint, L.-A. (2002) A Hybrid Power Filter with Improved Control Algorithm Based on LMS Estimation, International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Converters and Systems (ELECTRIMACS), Montréal.

Mendalek, N., Al-Haddad, K., Fnaiech, F., and Dessaint, L.-A. (2001) Nonlinear Control Strategy Applied to a Shunt Active Power Filter, IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference (PESC), Vancouver, Canada.

Mendalek, N.; Fnaiech, F.; Al-Haddad, K.; and Dessaint, L.-A, (2001) Input-state feedback control of a shunt active power filter, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto.

Al-Haddad, K., Mendalek, N., Casoria, S., and Dessaint, L.-A. (1999) Identification and Validation of Power Quality Conditioners using the power system blockset, International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Converters and Systems (ELECTRIMACS), Portugal.

Mendalek, N., Al-Haddad, K., Dessaint, L.-A., and Rajagopalan, V. (1999) Modélisation et Simulation d’une Source d’Alimentation en Utilisant le ‘Power System Blockset’ de Matlab, 3rd International Conference of Industrial Automation (ICIA), Montréal, Canada.