Dr. Kevin Bai Honored
CURENT’s own Dr. Kevin Bai has been elected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. This award is one of the most prestigious in the field. Please see the link to the article below.
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Dr. Daniel Costinett Leads 26th Annual IEEE COMPEL Workshop
CURENT faculty member, Dr. Daniel Costinett, served as chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power Electronic Society Workshop (IEEE COMPEL) that took place on the campus of the University of Tennessee June 22–26, 2025. Dr. Costinett’s work was…
CURENT’s Power Electronics Professors visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory
CURENT’s five power electronics professors (Drs. Kevin Bai, Daniel Costinett, Jiangbiao He, Leon Tolbert, and Fred Wang) visited ORNL’s National Transportation Research Center and GRID-C power research facilities on June 30 as a reciprocal visit (ORNL researchers had visited CURENT…
CURENT Staff & Students host PiPES Program
On Thursday, June 12, CURENT graduate students and staff assisted with a campus visit by high school students from the PiPES Explorers Camp Program. CURENT members led the students on a tour of labs in the Min Kao Building and…
Mohamed Y. Metwly wins Best Presentation Award
CURENT PhD student Mohamed Y. Metwly recently received the Best Presentation Award at the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference. The conference was held in Houston, Texas from May 18 to 21, 2025. Pictured: Dr. JiangBiao He and and…
UT Graduate Wins Award
Dr. Horacio Silva, a UT Graduate who studied under Dr. Hector Pulgar, is now working for Electric Power Group in California where he recently won first place in the Next Generation Network (NGN) Showcase Presentation. In August, he represented the…
2024 R&D 100 Award Announced
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2024 R&D 100 Award Announced Dr. Yilu Liu’s team received notification that Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee are the recipients of a 2024 R&D 100 Award…
2024 Mini-Workshop on Power System Simulation
CURENT Hosted a Mini-Workshop on Power System Simulation On August 14th, CURENT hosted a mini-workshop featuring two invited guest speakers: Dr. Qiuhua Huang from the Colorado School of Mines and Dr. Philip Top from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Huang…
CURENT 2024 Summer Planning Meeting in Seattle
Dr. Fran Li recaps CURENT 2024 Summer Strategic Planning Meeting in Seattle CURENT held its annual summer strategic planning meeting with its industrial members during the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting (GM). The meeting this year took…