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…
Lin Zhu, Ph.D., Senior Technical Leader for CURENT industry partner, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), announced that a paper entitled “Mitigating Inter-Area Oscillations With an Adaptive Wide-Area Damping Controller: Field Demonstration and Operation Experience in Italy” was presented at the…
Dr. Bai attended the 15th Conference of National Academy of Inventors, hosted in Hollywood, California, and was inducted as NAI Fellow, cohort of 2025, due to his constant licensing patents to electric vehicle companies.
Two CURENT students were selected by faculty to receive the 2026 Handong Gui Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Awards. Fazard Notash, advised by Dr. JiangBiao He, received the award in power electronics. Vince Wilson, advised by Dr. Fran Li, received the…
The 2026 CURENT Industry Conference, held on April 28–29 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, brought together leading experts in power systems and power electronics from academia, industry, and national laboratories. The conference provided a platform for cutting-edge discussions on…
Dr. Yang Xu was recognized for his outstanding presentation during APEC 2026 (2026 Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition) held March 22-26 in San Antonio, Texas. His presentation topic was Analysis of Crosstalk in Solid-State Circuit Breakers Equipped with Transient…
On March 18, 2026, CURENT was pleased to host Nick Hennen, Global Vice President of Kustan GmbH/Inbatec America, Inc., to discuss shared interests and potential collaborations in energy storage for grid applications. Drs. Fran Li and Kevin Bai introduced CURENT’s…
CURENT students and faculty attended a lecture titled “Grid Reliability and Its Vital Signs.” The event was sponsored by East Tennessee section of the Power and Energy Society and Power Electronics Society. The event was held in the Min Kao…
Dr. Bai and members of his lab, in collaboration with FORVIA HELLA and Volkswagen Group of America, have patented two technologies that will improve electric vehicle charging and power conversion. Full details about this collaboration are available on the UT…