On May 28, 2025, Jim LeBlanc, Technology Director for Electrification and Judy Guzzo, Business Development Manager/External Partnerships Manager for Electrification at GE Vernova Advanced Research (GEVAR) visited CURENT. CURENT power electronics faculty Fred Wang, Kevin Bai, Daniel Costinett, JiangBiao He,…
On May 30, Dr. Adam Birchfield, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University presented on the topic, Applying Network Synthesis Methods to Long-Term Transmission Planning. Growth in bulk electric demand, largely driven by datacenters, and the interconnection of…
Two CURENT students were selected by faculty to receive the 2025 Handong Gui Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Awards. Ziwei Liang, advised by Dr. Kevin Bai, received the award in power electronics. Kaiyang Huang, advised by Dr. Kai Sun, received the…
On May 19, the CURENT faculty recognized students and staff for their outstanding leadership and service resulting in a successful industry conference hosted on the UT campus in April. Students and staff actively engaged in prior planning and preparation as…
The 2025 CURENT Industry Conference was held on April 22–23 at the Student Union and Min H. Kao Building at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The event brought together leading minds in power systems and power electronics, providing a platform…
On April 20, Ibukunoluwa Korede (IBK), of Dominion Energy, hosted a dinner in Knoxville for CURENT faculty and for students who have upcoming internships there.
Yilu Liu, CURENT Deputy Director, visited with Dr. Arun Phadke in Portland, Oregon to discuss the next new research agenda for the center. Dr. Phadke is a former CURENT SAB member.
CURENT faculty welcomed visitors from ORNL to the UT campus on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Faculty provided an introduction to CURENT, Power Electronics research highlights, and a tour of the power electronics facilities and testbed.
Three CURENT faculty members (Kevin Bai, Daniel Costinett and Leon Tolbert) and four present/former students (Ziwei Liang, Liyan Zhu, Yang Huang and Ruiyang Qin) received Most Popular Technical Article Award and Top Technical Article Award of 2022 from IEEE Power…
Congratulations to CURENT student Ori Yuru on being recognized as NASPI’s (The North American SynchroPhasor Initiative) Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year for 2024. The award celebrates students who make substantial contributions to the use or advancement of synchronized measurement…