CURENT Faculty

Core Faculty Members

• Fangxing (Fran) Li, CURENT Director and John W. Fisher Professor
• Yilu Liu, CURENT Deputy Director and UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor
• Fred Wang, CURENT Technical Director and Professor & Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics
• Leon Tolbert, Chancellor’s Professor
• Daniel Costinett, Professor and Associate Department Head of EECS
• Kai Sun, Professor
• Hua “Kevin” Bai, Professor
• Hector Pulgar, Associate Professor
• Jiangbiao He, Associate Professor

Affiliated Faculty Members

At UT:

• Jamie Coble, Professor
• Jian Huang, Professor
• Hairong Qi, Professor
• Jinyuan Sun, Professor 

External:

• Chien-fei Chen, Professor (Clemson University)
• Hantao Cui, Associate Professor (NC State University)
• Xin Fang, Assistant Professor (Mississippi State University)
• Kevin Tomsovic, Duke Energy Endowed Chair (Clemson University)
• Zheyu Zhang, Assistant Professor (RPI)

Past Partner Universities (2011-2021)

• Northeastern University (Ali Abur, Hanoch Lev-Ari, and Aleksandar Stankovic (Tufts University))
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Joe Chow, Jian Sun, Luigi Vanfretti, and Meng Wang)
• Tuskegee University (Greg Murphy, Arunsi Chuku, Marc Karam, Jesmin Khan, Mandoye Ndoye, and Ben Oni)

• People in CURENT
• Organization
• Leadership Team
• Faculty
• Staff
• Power Electronics Research Groups
• Power Systems Research Groups
• Partner Universities