Michael Rogers

The annual CURENT Industry Conference will be held on The University of Tennessee campus, April 28-29, 2026. Registration is now closed. For those of you who are attending or are interested in learning about our conference activities, the agenda is…

On Friday, February 27, 2026, CURENT Deputy Director Dr. Yilu Liu gave a presentation to the HPE AI Connect Knowledge Discovery Industry Interest Group.  Dr. Liu’s talk was the first in a bi-weekly series on the foundations, algorithms, and applications…

CURENT would like to welcome our newest member, Delta Electronics.  Delta is a global leader in power and thermal management technologies with its 2025 revenue of $17.9B. It is the No. 1 power supplies company in the world. Its business…

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.

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 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…

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…

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…