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Roderick Bayliss III received his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2020 and 2021. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
After internships at Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX, he joined the Pilawa Group at UC Berkeley. His research interests include multilevel power converter design and control and high performance power magnetics design.
Mr. Bayliss III is a recipient of the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship, the Hertz Fellowship, the IEEE COMPEL 2024 Best Paper Award, and an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from UC Berkeley.

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145 Cory Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
rodbay@berkeley.edu

Project Gallery

Input Inductor six-level FCML converter prototype
Input inductor FCML converter prototype for buck-type PFC applications.
Buck Converter Developed for Power Electronics Design Course
Buck Converter Developed for Power Electronics Design Course.
Photograph of 12-level FCML converter prototype
12-Level FCML converter prototype.
Used for buck-type PFC and FCML converter modeling and control.

Publications

Journal Publications

  1. 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 Transactions on Power Electronics, 2026

  2. High-Performance High-Power Inductor Design for High-Frequency Applications
    Mansi V. Joisher, Jiamei Wang, Roderick S. Bayliss, Mike K. Ranjram, Rachel S. Yang, Alexander Jurkov, David J. Perreault. IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, 2025

  3. Generalized Averaged Modeling of Capacitor Voltage Balancing Dynamics in Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters
    Rahul K. Iyer, Roderick S. Bayliss, Ivan Z. Petric, Seth R. Sanders, Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2025

  4. 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

  5. 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

Conference Publications

  1. Design and Analysis of a High Step-Down Ratio Capacitively-Isolated Flying Capacitor Multilevel Resonant Converter
    Roderick S. Bayliss, Logan Horowitz, Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2025

  2. 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 [Best Paper Award]

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2023

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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