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 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…
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…
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…
Power System Inertia, Strength, and RoCoF, is now published on Spring Nature Link in eBook format. Dr. Liu co-authored the book with Farhad Shahnia and Paolo Attilio Pegoraro. This publication is part of the Power Systems book series. Springer Nature…
Dr. Yilu Liu attended the 2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society International Meeting (PESIM 2026) held in Hong Kong on January 18-21, 2026. The PESIM 2026 topic was Global Power and Energy Systems Resilience: Leveraging Collaborative Expertise. Dr. Liu, along…
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.
Dr. Kristen Booth, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina, visited CURENT on Nov. 21 and presented a seminar titled, “Development of Digital Twins for Microgrid Applications.” The seminar covered the fundamentals of digital twins, how to develop and…
Associate Professor, JiangBiao He, was one of only 30 American engineers invited and sponsored by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to attend and present at the 2025 European Union-United States Frontiers of Engineering Symposium held in Bordeaux, France…
CURENT Professor, Yilu Liu, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s, Yuru Wu, along with the entire product development team were recognized at the R&D 100 awards ceremony in Scottsdale, Arizona on November 20. Wu accepted the 2025 R&D 100 award at…