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 entiled “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. Fran Li received the Moses E. & Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor award at the Tickle College of Engineering Annual Award Banquet On April 16, 2026, Professor Fran Li, the CURENT Director, received the Moses E. & Mayme Brooks Distinguished…
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…
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…