About Me
I'm an engineer and musician. I enjoy teaching others how to make circuits and sounds. I've got a BS in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering. My dissertation focused on real-time thermal modeling of SiC MOSFET power modules. I developed a technique which used reduced order thermal models and package surface temperature to identify faults in solder layers of power modules. On the music front, I've developed a script which turns a Monome Crow into a 4-voice synthesizer. I've also created a muscial sequencer app called Pit Orchisstra for Monome Norns based on the classic Snake game. My research work has been published in IEEE Journal on Power Electronics and my music has been released on a couple smaller record labels. In the past, I've worked at a national research lab, a renewable energy developer, and at tech companies.
Skills
MATLAB, Simulink, Lua, Python, Supercollider, LabVIEW, COMSOL, Ansys, Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Analysis, Circuit Analysis, Technical Writing, Teaching, Sound Design, Machine Learning, PyTorch
Publications
- C. Entzminger, W. Qiao, L. Qu and J. L. Hudgins, "Automated Extraction of Low-Order Thermal Model with Controllable Error Bounds for SiC MOSFET Power Modules," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 538-551, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3318580.
- C. Entzminger, W. Qiao, L. Qu, “Case temperature monitoring-based online condition monitoring of SiC MOSFET power modules using a radial basis function network,” in Proc. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo., Oct. 2020.
- C. Entzminger, W. Qiao, L. Qu, and J. Hudgins, “A high-accuracy, low order thermal model of SiC MOSFET power modules extracted from finite element analysis via model order reduction,” in Proc. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo., Sept.-Oct. 2019, pp. 4950-4954.
Projects and Performances
- nb_drumcrow — A norns mod that turns crow into a 4-voice synthesizer, October 2024.
- Developed apiary structure for arcologies — Adds nb support, July 2024.
- Live coding drumcrow, a Supercollider script running RAVE neural networks, and Hydra, June 2024.
- Pit Orchisstra — A musical sequencer based on the classic Snake game, March 2024.
- Rudiments — Contributed pitch sequencer, nb support, and new grid controls to the app. Blue Moon Triptych performance, February 2024.
- drumcrow — A crow script that turns crow into a 4-voice synthesizer (deprecated), December 2022.
- Live coding drumcrow and Deluge for Flash Crash, August 2022.
- 52 minute live performance on the Deluge, December 2021.
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