JiangBiao He is an Associate Professor with CURENT and the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee (UT). Before joining UT in August 2024, he was an Associate Professor and the endowed Pigman Faculty Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Previously, he worked in multiple large industry R&D centers, most recently as a Lead Engineer at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. Prior to joining GE in 2015, He was employed by Rockwell Automation as a power engineer, focusing on the product development of servo motor drives. He was also with Eaton Corporate Research in 2013 working on high-power SiC converters. He obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from Marquette University, U.S.

He’s research interests include advanced motor-drive systems and power electronics for broad emerging applications, including transportation electrifications, e-mobility, renewable energies, industrial automation, and others. At GE, he was a leading engineer on the development of the first-ever MW-scale propulsion drive for hybrid-electric aircraft demonstration in the global aviation area, which won the GE Whitney Technical Excellence Award (highest recognition for breakthrough technology innovation at GE-GRC). He also worked on power converter reliability improvement for the 12-MW GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbine system design, the then largest wind turbine in the world. He is the author/coauthor of over 150 peer-reviewed technical articles, one textbook, and 10 U.S. patents. His research has been sponsored by the NSF, DOE, DOD, NASA, and high-tech industries.