Dr. He received $565,000 of a $3M DOE research grant to develop integrated charger-traction technologies for next-generation electric vehicles. Collaborative partners are Western Michigan University (lead affiliation), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Kentucky, BorgWarner, and John Deere.…
Muhammad Umar Afzaal Hash, a CURENT PhD student, placed first in the Student Poster Competition at the 2026 Point-on-Wave Applications (POWA) conference hosted at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus on September 29-30. The title of the winning poster…
In May 2026, the Department of Research at The University of Tennessee featured Dr. Liu’s efforts to keep U.S. energy power reliable. The article covers aspects of Dr. Liu’s work as Governor’s Chair for Power Systems in her joint appointment…
Yilu Liu, CURENT Deputy Director and UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Power Grids, along with TCE faculty members Jack Dongarra and Parans Paranthaman received 2026 R&D 100 awards. Learn more about these awards on the UT Research web site.
CURENT faculty and staff gathered at Knoxville’s The Tomato Head restaurant to recognize and celebrate with Bob Martin on his retirement from the University of Tennessee. Bob served as the Infrastructure Manager for CURENT and other EECS programs for over…
Dr. Yilu Liu, CURENT Deputy Director and UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor attended the CIGRE Paris Session 2026 held August 23-28. During the opening session, the FNET/GridEye system was featured. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers working with colleagues at the…
On August 5, 2026, the CURENT research center welcomed a delegation of 12 visitors from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) and its affiliates, led by Dr. Chih-Sheng Chang, Deputy General Manager of Taipower’s Research Institute. Dr. Fran Li, Director of CURENT,…
While visiting Santiago, Chile in June to attend the 5th International SGSMA Conference, Dr. Liu (UTK professor), Vikas Singhvi (EPRI), and Lin Zhu (EPRI) met with colleagues at ISO Chile to discuss possible research collaborations. Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, a professor in the Department…
On June 12, 2026, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) announced that Professor Fran Li, Director of CURENT, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 IEEE PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award. Named in honor of…
Dr. JiangBiao He’s team has recently received a 2nd place prize paper award from IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE). The prize paper award was evaluated among more than 600 papers published on JESTPE in…