Rod Bayliss III is a Ph.D. candidate in the Pilawa Power Electronics Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously received his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2020 and 2021. His research interests include multi-level power converter design and control and high performance power magnetics design. Rod is a recipient of the Hertz Fellowship and the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship.
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Univesity of California, Berkeley
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rodbay@berkeley.edu
Input inductor FCML converter prototype for buck-type PFC applications.
Buck Converter Developed for Power Electronics Design Course.
12-Level FCML converter prototype. Used for buck-type PFC and FCML converter modeling and control.
Array of FCML converters used for motor drive inverters for high-speed machines.
On the Role of Switch Output Capacitance on Passive Balancing Within the Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Roderick S. Bayliss , Nathan C. Brooks, Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2025
An Input Inductor Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Utilizing a Combined Power Factor Correcting and Active Voltage Balancing Control Technique for Buck-Type AC/DC Grid-Tied Applications Roderick S. Bayliss , Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE 25th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2024
A High-Bandwidth Parallel Active Balancing Controller for Current-Controlled Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters Rahul K. Iyer, Ivan Z. Petric, Roderick S. Bayliss , Nathan C. Brooks, Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2024
High-Performance High-Power Inductor Design for High-Frequency Applications Mansi V. Joisher, Roderick S. Bayliss , Mike K. Ranjram, Rachel S. Yang, Alexander Jurkov, David J. Perreault. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2024
A Combined Power Factor Correcting and Active Voltage Balancing Control Technique for Buck-Type AC/DC Grid-Tied Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters Roderick S. Bayliss , Nathan C. Brooks, Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2023
A Segmented Electric Aircraft Drivetrain Employing 10-Level Flying Capacitor Multi-Level Dual- Interleaved Power Modules Roderick S. Bayliss , Rahul K. Iyer, Richard Liou, Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2023
On the Role of Switch Output Capacitance on Passive Balancing within the Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Roderick S. Bayliss , Nathan C. Brooks, Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE 23rd Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2022
Fundamental State-Space Modeling Methodology for the Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter Nathan C. Brooks, Rahul K. Iyer, Roderick S. Bayliss , Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE 23rd Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2022
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of High-Efficiency High-Power Radio-Frequency Inductors Roderick S. Bayliss , Rachel S. Yang, Alex J. Hanson, Charles R. Sullivan, David J. Perreault. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2021
A Multi-Phase Segmented Drive Comprising Arrayed Flying Capacitor Multi-Level Modules Nathan Pallo, Roderick S. Bayliss , Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2021
A Modular Multi-Phase Actively Controlled Resistive Load Bank with Zero-Current Switching Capability and Integrated Snubbers Amanda Jackson, Nathan Pallo, Roderick S. Bayliss , Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), 2021