WiSys names UW-Green Bay’s Prof. Md Maruf Hossain 2019 Innovator of the Year

Md Maruf Hossain
Md Maruf Hossain

Green Bay, Wis. — For exemplary contributions to Wisconsin innovation, UW-Green Bay’s Md Maruf Hossain will receive the 2019 Carl E. Gulbrandsen Innovator of the Year Award. The honor will be presented to Hossain at WSTS, a UW System-focused research and innovation symposium, that will be held at UW-Stout, July 22-23.

“Dr. Maruf Hossain is a worthy recipient of this award as a role model with high-quality research and strong attention to student success,” said WiSys President, Arjun Sanga. “We are excited to present him with this award.”

WiSys is a nonprofit organization that works with faculty, staff, students and alumni of the UW System to facilitate cutting-edge research programs, develop and commercialize discoveries, and foster a spirit of innovative and entrepreneurial thinking across the state.

Hossain, UW-Green Bay assistant professor of Engineering Technology, has helped build a culture of innovation on the UW-Green Bay campus and across the UW System as a teacher and inventor. The professor’s interest in electrical power systems and renewable energy led him to research and develop wind turbines with help from UW System and WiSys research grants. Earlier this year, Hossain filed for a patent, working with WiSys, for an “Integrated Vertical Axis Wind Power Generation System” and recently developed a prototype to test his ideas.

“We are extremely proud of Dr. Maruf Hossain for being selected as the WiSys Innovator of the Year,” said UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary Miller. “Dr. Hossain is a leading researcher in the Resch School of Engineering and a most valued member of our university community. Maruf exemplifies the commitment and innovative spirit of the UW-Green Bay faculty. This award is a much-deserved affirmation of the importance of his groundbreaking work.”

In 2018, Hossain was selected to participate in the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s Accelerator Program—an exclusive program that provides expert advice and targeted funding to help inventors advance commercially promising technologies closer to the marketplace.

In addition to pursuing his own interests, Hossain has been an advocate for student research at UW-Green Bay by encouraging students to pursue research opportunities as part of their education.

“Dr. Hossain is very deserving of the 2019 Carl E. Gulbrandsen Innovator of the Year Award from WiSys, said UW-Green Bay’s Dean of Science, Engineering and Technology, John Katers. “Maruf is a leader in the University’s new Richard J. Resch School of Engineering, where he is an outstanding teacher and conducts innovative and applied research that connects closely with our community partners. His research also provides opportunities for undergraduate students in our electrical engineering technology program to work directly with him on design, development, and prototyping, providing valuable hands-on experience that will lead to career opportunities for them upon graduation.”

Prior to joining UW-Green Bay, Hossain was the Herff Fellow at the University of Memphis. He also served as an assistant professor at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh for about nine months, and as a lecturer at the American International University-Bangladesh for about four and a half years.

Hossain received a Ph.D. from the University of Memphis and both M.Sc. and B.Sc. in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. His teaching and research expertise are mostly in the field of electrical and electronic engineering, especially in electrical power systems. Hossain has several peer-reviewed research articles published in reputed journals and has presented at national and international conferences.

The Carl E. Gulbrandsen Innovator of the Year Award is presented to a UW System faculty, staff member or student making exemplary contributions as a WiSys Innovator. The award, given in conjunction with WSTS, was created to honor the former managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation who supported WiSys throughout his 16-year tenure.

About the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is a comprehensive public institution offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs to nearly 8,000 students with campus locations in Green Bay, Marinette, Manitowoc and Sheboygan. Established in 1965 on the border of Green Bay, the University and its campuses are centers of cultural enrichment, innovation and learning. The Green Bay campus is home to one of the Midwest’s most prolific performing arts centers, a nationally recognized 4,000-seat student recreation center, D-I athletics, an award-winning nine-hole golf course and a five-mile recreational trail and arboretum, which is free and open to the public. This four-campus University transforms lives and communities through student-focused teaching and research, innovative learning opportunities, powerful connections and a problem-solving approach to education. UW-Green Bay’s main campus is centrally located, close to both the Door County resort area and the dynamic economies of Northeast Wisconsin, the Fox Valley region and the I-43 corridor. UW-Green Bay offers in-demand programs in science, engineering and technology; business; health, education and social welfare; and arts, humanities and social sciences. For more information, visit www.uwgb.edu.

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Faculty note: Assistant Prof. Maruf Hossain publishes paper

UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. Maruf Hossain’s (Electrical Engineering Technology) paper entitled “Robust estimation of voltage harmonics in a single-phase system,” has been published in a peer-reviewed journal, in IET Science, Measurement & Technology. The article is co-authored with an international team of researchers from UW-Green Bay (USA), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh), Macquarie University , Sydney (Australia) and Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Copenhagen (Denmark). All the authors are thankful to Dean John Katers (College of Science, Engineering and Technology) for his support to set up the experimental lab to conduct the experiments.

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Faculty note: Assistant Prof. Maruf Hossain publication

UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. Maruf Hossain (Electrical Engineering Technology) has co-authored a paper entitled “Three-Phase PLL for Grid-Connected Power Converters under Both Amplitude and Phase Unbalanced Conditions,” which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, one of the high impact factor journals published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The article is co-authored with an international team of researchers from UW-Green Bay (USA), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Copenhagen (Denmark) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). All the authors are thankful to Dean John Katers (College of Science, Engineering and Technology) for his support to set up the experimental lab, which was used to conduct the experiments for this paper.

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Faculty note: Assistant Prof. Maruf Hossain publication

Assistant Prof. Maruf Hossain (Electrical Engineering Technology) has co-authored a paper entitled “Open-Loop Approach for Robust Detection of Selective Harmonic in Single-Phase System,” which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. This is a collaborative work with other two professors from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. All the authors are grateful to Dean John Katers (College of Science, Engineering and Technology) for his support to set up the experimental lab, which was used to conduct the experiments for this paper. View the paper.