Last modified: April, 2010
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Svetlana Bronshtein
Affiliation: SCE - Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, P.O.B. 950, 84100.
Tel: +972-8-6475774.
E-mail: svetlanab@sce.ac.il.
1. Academic education
2001-2005 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel. Dissertation title: Piezoelectric Transformers in Power
Electronics. Adviser: Prof. Sam Ben-Yaakov.
1979-1984 B.Sc and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Measurements. Polytechnic
University of Leningrad. Dissertation title: Low power factor wattmeter.
Adviser: Dr. Efim Shapiro.
2. Academic employment
Since 1997 Lecturer. Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics SCE - Sami
Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Ashdod - Beer-Sheva, Israel.
1992-2005 Lecturer, Teaching assistant. Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
1984-1991 Researcher, Engineer at the Laboratory of Phase measurements and
Standards in Mendeleyev Research Engineering Institute, Leningrad, USSR
3. Industrial engineering experience
1984-1991 Researcher, Engineer at the Laboratory of Phase measurements and
Standards in Mendeleyev Research Engineering Institute, Leningrad, USSR.
4. Academic research and development activities
4.1. Previous research and development activities
1984-1991 Phase Measurements and Standards – (2 peer reviewed papers, 4 patents
+ 2 papers in referred conference volumes)
1991-2005 Magnetic and piezoelectric transformers (1 peer reviewed paper + 6
papers in refereed conference volumes).
4.2. Present research and development activities
Since 2006 Sliding mode control in power supplies (1 peer reviewed paper + 3
papers in refereed conference volumes)
Since 2008 Development and testing of sycloconverter models (1 peer reviewed
paper).
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Since 2009 Resonant Power Converters (1 paper in preparation)
5. List of publications
5.1. Peer reviewed papers
1. S.-C. Tan, S. Kiratipongvoot, S. Bronstein, A. Ioinovici, Y. M. Lai, and C. K. Tse,
“Adaptive Mixed On-Time and Switching frequency Control of a System of
Interleaved Switched-Capacitor Converters, “, IEEE Trans. On Power Elec.,
2010, submitted.
2. S.-C. Tan, S. Bronstein, M. Nur, Y. M. Lai, A. Ioinovici, and C. K. Tse, “Dealing
with nonlinearity in switched-capacitor converters”, IEEE Trans. On Industrial
Electronics, 2010, to be published.
3. I. Katz, A. Abramovitz, Y. Horen, A. Kuperman and S. Bronshtein, “Analysis of
Generic Cycloconverter Operation with Instantaneous Commutation under
Transient and Steady-State Conditions,” Journal of System, Circuits and
Computers, vol.18, n.6, pp. 1061-1073, 2009.
4. G. Ivensky, S. Bronstein, and S. Ben-Yaakov, “A comparison of piezoelectric
transformer AC/DC converters with current-doubler and voltage-doubler
rectifiers,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, n. 19, pp. 1446-1453, 2004
5. S. Hachamov (Bronstein), “A comparison between integral methods of phase shift
measurements,” in Electrical measurements, pp. 72-75, Leningrad, 1990 (in
Russian)
6. S. Hachamov (Bronstein) and others, “State Standard of phase shift between two
voltages in frequency range of 10-2-107 Hz,” Izmeritelnaya technika , pp.1-5, 1989
(in Russian)
5.2. Books/collective volumes
5.2.1. Books/collective volumes (Authorship or editorship)
1. S. Bronshtein, “Piezoelectric Transformers in Power Electronics,
Principle, modeling, and measurement techniques”, VDM Verlag Dr.
Müller Aktiengesellschaft&Co. KG, Germany, 2009.
5.2.2. Articles in refereed conference volumes
1. S.-C. Tan, S. Kiratipongvoot, S. Bronshtein, A. Ioinovici, Y. M. Lai, and
C. K. Tse, “Interleaved Switched-Capacitor Converters with Adaptive OnTime and Frequency Control,” 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress
and Exposition , Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 12-16, 2010, to be
published.
2. Bronshtein, I. Kats, “Estimating the parameters of the piezoelectric
transformer equivalent circuit”, AIC.- 2010, SCE, Beer-Sheva, Israel
3. S.-C. Tan, S. Kiratipongvoot S. Bronstein, M. Nur, Y. M. Lai, A. Ioinovici,
and C. K. Tse, “Switched-capacitor converter configuration with low EMI
emission obtained by interleaving and its large-signal modeling, in Proc.
IEEE PESC, 2009.
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4. S.-C. Tan, S. Bronstein, M. Nur, Y. M. Lai, A. Ioinovici, and C. K. Tse,
“Non-linear control of switched-capacitor converters using sliding mode
control approach”, in Proc. IEEE PESC, 2008.
5. G. Ivensky, S. Bronstein and S. Ben-Yaakov, “Approximate analysis of the
resonant LCL DC-DC converter,” in Proc. IEEEI, pp. 44-47, 2004.
6. S. Bronstein, G. Ivensky, S. Ben-Yaakov, “Parallel operation of
piezoelectric transformers,” in Proc. IEEE PESC-2004, 1779-1785, 2004.
7. G. Ivensky, S. Bronstein, and S. Ben-Yaakov, “A comparison of
piezoelectric transformer AC/DC converters with current doubler and
voltage doubler rectifiers,” in Proc. IEEE PESC, 2003, 365-370, 2003.
8. S. Bronstein, and S. Ben-Yaakov, “Design considerations for achieving
ZVS in a half bridge inverter that drives a piezoelectric transformer with no
series inductor,” in Proc. IEEE PESC, 2002, 585-590, 2002.
9. G. Ivensky, S. Bronstein, and S. Ban-Yaakov, “Analysis and design of a
piezoelectric transformer AC/DC converter in a low voltage application,”
in Proc. IEEE PESC, 2002, 409-414, 2002.
5.3. Patents
1. S.Hachamov (Bronstein) and others, “Phase-meter’s test device,” N1267283,
USSR, 1985
2. S.Hachamov (Bronstein) and others, “A discrete phase-product device,”
N1430905, USSR, 1986.
3. S.Hachamov (Bronstein) and others, “An automatic low frequency phase
calibrator”, N1472843 USSR, 1987.
4. S.Hachamov (Bronstein) and others, “Calibrator of discrete voltage phase-shifts,”
N1636790, USSR, 1988
6. Courses taught
1. Introduction to Electrical Engineering - Material Engineering, Ben Gurion University
2. Introduction to Electrical Engineering 1, 2 - Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering. Sami Shamoon College of Engineering.
3. Power Systems 1, 2 - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Sami
Shamoon College of Engineering
4. Industrial Electronics - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Sami
Shamoon College of Engineering
5. Energy Conversion - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Sami
Shamoon College of Engineering
6. Digital Electronic Circuits - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Sami
Shamoon College of Engineering.
7. Introduction to Digital Electronic Circuits - Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Ben-Gurion University.
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7. Membership in professional/scientific societies
Since 2009 SEEEI, member
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