RESEARCH
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Our library includes the Center's technical papers published in conference and journal papers, presentations, recordings, thesis and dissertations produced by graduates, and a research volume series compiled by CPES faculty.
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EDUCATION
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One of the Center's missions is to develop and education program that promotes multi-disciplinary, team-driven, and systems-oriented training to CPES students, as well as provide continuing education opportunities to our industrial partners.
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NEWS/EVENTS
News/Events

CPES continuously releases news regarding our conferences, faculty, and students. We also provide a list of events for webinars, conferences, and many other facets!
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  CPES Announces New Center Director
  
  The Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech is ente...
  
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  Industry Webinar - Average-Value Modeling of Cascaded H-Bridge Medium-Voltage Drives by Mohammad Nair Aalam
  
  December 10, 2025
  
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  2026 CPES Annual Conference
  
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INDUSTRY
Industry

The CPES Industry Consortium cultivates connectivity among researchers in academia and industry, and creates synergy within the network of industry members. Our industry consortium is the backbone of our strong technology transfer success.
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ABOUT
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The Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), with annual research expenditures of $6-7 million dollars, is dedicated to improving electrical power processing and distribution that impact systems of all sizes – from battery-operated electronics to vehicles to regional and national electrical distribution systems.
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JOBS
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The Jobs/Internship Openings page permits anyone from a CPES Member company to post open positions. The person posting can provide supporting information including the position title and description, location, application link, etc. The notices are reviewed and posted where they are accessible to anyone who creates a free account on the CPES website.
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The CPES Team

Faculty

Portrait of Dushan Boroyevich — **Dushan Boroyevich**
**CPES Director Emeritus - University Distinguished Professor Emeritus**

Portrait of Rolando Burgos — **Rolando Burgos**
**CPES Director and Professor**

Portrait of Fred C. Lee — **Fred C. Lee**
**CPES Director Emeritus - University Distinguished Professor Emeritus**

Portrait of Christina DiMarino — **Christina DiMarino**
**Assistant Professor**

Portrait of Dong Dong — **Dong Dong**
**Assistant Professor**

Portrait of Yi-Hsun Hsieh — **Yi-Hsun Hsieh**
**Research Associate**

Portrait of Qiang Li — **Qiang Li**
**Associate Professor**

Portrait of Guo-Quan Lu — **Guo-Quan Lu**
**Professor (Affiliate Faculty)**

Portrait of Khai Ngo — **Khai Ngo**
**Professor**

Portrait of Richard Zhang — **Richard Zhang**
**Professor**

Portrait of Yuhao Zhang — **Yuhao Zhang**
**Assistant Professor**

Research Faculty

Portrait of David Gilham — **David Gilham**
**Lab Operations Director**

Portrait of Vladimir Mitrovic — **Vladimir Mitrovic**
**Research Faculty**

Portrait of Tim Thacker — **Tim Thacker**
**Research Faculty**

Portrait of Liyan Zhu — **Liyan Zhu**
**Research Faculty**

Staff

Portrait of Neil Croy — **Neil Croy**
**Staff**

Portrait of Brandy Grim — **Brandy Grim**
**Staff**

Portrait of Dennis Grove — **Dennis Grove**
**Staff**

Portrait of Nina Jaworski — **Nina Jaworski**
**Staff**

Portrait of Ling Li — **Ling Li**
**Staff**

Portrait of Teresa Shaw — **Teresa Shaw**
**Staff**

Portrait of Yan Sun — **Yan Sun**
**Staff**

Portrait of Brad Welch — **Brad Welch**
**Staff**

Graduate Students

Portrait of Mohammad Aalam — **Mohammad Aalam**

Portrait of Ashkan Barzkar — **Ashkan Barzkar**

Portrait of Haris Bin Ashraf — **Haris Bin Ashraf**

Portrait of Filip Boshkovski — **Filip Boshkovski**

Portrait of Anthony Buchman — **Anthony Buchman**

Portrait of Mark Cairnie — **Mark Cairnie**

Portrait of Che-Wei Chang — **Che-Wei Chang**

Portrait of Xingyu Chen — **Xingyu Chen**

Portrait of Yancheng Chen — **Yancheng Chen**

Portrait of Che-An Cheng — **Che-An Cheng**

Portrait of William Chong — **William Chong**

Portrait of Arthur Coimbra-Mendes — **Arthur Coimbra-Mendes**

Portrait of Hongchang Cui — **Hongchang Cui**

Portrait of Promit Datta — **Promit Datta**

Portrait of Hamideh Delaram — **Hamideh Delaram**

Portrait of Satyajeet Deshmukh — **Satyajeet Deshmukh**

Portrait of Jaysen Dildy — **Jaysen Dildy**

Portrait of William Hall — **William Hall**

Portrait of Woonjung Hong — **Woonjung Hong**

Portrait of Boping Jiang — **Boping Jiang**

Portrait of Tianyi Jiang — **Tianyi Jiang**

Portrait of Aakash Kamalapur — **Aakash Kamalapur**

Portrait of Marie Lawson — **Marie Lawson**

Portrait of Tien-Sheng Li — **Tien-Sheng Li**

Portrait of Lester Lopez — **Lester Lopez**

Portrait of Abdelrahman Mahgoub — **Abdelrahman Mahgoub**

Portrait of Tyler McGrew — **Tyler McGrew**

Portrait of Jayesh Motwani — **Jayesh Motwani**

Portrait of Shivani Nair — **Shivani Nair**

Portrait of Adhistira Naradhipa — **Adhistira Naradhipa**

Portrait of Rajaie Nassar — **Rajaie Nassar**

Portrait of Ebube Opara — **Ebube Opara**

Portrait of Jeet Panchal — **Jeet Panchal**

Portrait of Matthew Porter — **Matthew Porter**

Portrait of Pranav Raj Prakash — **Pranav Raj Prakash**

Portrait of Narayanan Rajagopal — **Narayanan Rajagopal**

Portrait of Rahul Rajendran — **Rahul Rajendran**

Portrait of Ahmed Saafan — **Ahmed Saafan**

Portrait of Jaswanth Sathri — **Jaswanth Sathri**

Portrait of Abhinav Soni — **Abhinav Soni**

Portrait of Joseph Spencer — **Joseph Spencer**

Portrait of Matthias Spieler — **Matthias Spieler**

Portrait of Sundaramoorthy Sridhar — **Sundaramoorthy Sridhar**

Portrait of Tarik Teker — **Tarik Teker**

Portrait of Kenneth Test — **Kenneth Test**

Portrait of Bixuan Wang — **Bixuan Wang**

Portrait of Tonglei Wang — **Tonglei Wang**

Portrait of Xiaotian Xiang — **Xiaotian Xiang**

Portrait of Zhangwei Xiang — **Zhangwei Xiang**

Portrait of Kaisen Yang — **Kaisen Yang**

Portrait of Qiuzhe Yang — **Qiuzhe Yang**

Portrait of Xinliang Yang — **Xinliang Yang**

Portrait of Zineng Yang — **Zineng Yang**

Portrait of Jiaxiong Yu — **Jiaxiong Yu**

Portrait of Tianlong Yuan — **Tianlong Yuan**

Portrait of Qingrui Yuchi — **Qingrui Yuchi**

Portrait of Andrew Zhang — **Andrew Zhang**

Portrait of Xiang Zhang — **Xiang Zhang**

Portrait of Chunyang Zhao — **Chunyang Zhao**

Portrait of Tianyu Zhao — **Tianyu Zhao**

Portrait of Zachary Zintak — **Zachary Zintak**

Advisory Board

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

The CPES SAB is a critical part of the governing structure, providing key insights on the technological direction of the center. Consisting of leading global researchers and managers of research programs in areas related to power electronics, these experts observe the status of CPES research and education programs and provide critical feedback to CPES leadership.

Portrait of Hirofumi Akagi — **Hirofumi Akagi**
**Tokyo Institute of Technology**

Portrait of Isik Kizilyalli — **Isik Kizilyalli**
**Stanford University**

Portrait of Dragan Maksimovic — **Dragan Maksimovic**
**University of Colorado**

Industry Advisory Board (IAB)

Chunhua (David) Zhou
Innoscience (Zhuhai) Technology
Doug (Dianbo) Fu
Monolithic Power Systems
Jaroslaw (Jarek) Leonarski
Cummins, Inc.
Zhuxian (Nicole) Xu
Ford Motor Company
Jahan Afsharian
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Ismail Agirman
Carrier Corporation
Shin Aida
Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
Tamara Baksht
VisIC Technologies
Laszlo Balogh
Texas Instruments
Peter Barbosa
Delta Electronics
Steven Bentley
GlobalFoundries
Paul Bixel
TMEIC
Thomas Byrd
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Pietro Cairoli
ABB, Inc.
Brian Carpenter
Innovision Semiconductor
Pedro Castillo
BorgWarner Inc.
Orion Chen
Lite-On Technology Corporation

Issac Chen
Silergy Corporation
Michael Harke
RTX
Yasuaki Hayami
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Jim Honea
Nexperia
Xiaochuan Jia
GE Aerospace
Hongrae Kim
Eaton
Heath Kouns
Moog, Inc.
Udi Levy
SolarEdge
Jian Li
Vertiv
Kevin Liu
Richtek Technology Corporation
Prasanna Nagarajan
Otis
Ernie Parker
Crane Aerospace & Electronics
Eric Persson
Infineon Technologies
Arturo Pizano
Siemens Corporate Technology
Himamshu Prasad
Schneider Electric IT Corporation
Simon Round
Hitachi Energy
Zhenxia Shao
NR Electric Co., Ltd.

Gene Sheridan
Navitas Semiconductor
Ranga Tallam
Rockwell Automation
Satish Thuta
Tesla Motors
Hatsuda Tsuguyasu
Panasonic Corporation
Florin Udrea
Cambridge GaN Devices
Pit-Leong Wong
Joulwatt Technology
David Wu
Generac
Kun Xing
Renesas Electronics America Inc.
Ming Xu
Powerland Technology, Inc.
Jun Xu
Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.
Bo Yang
M3 Technology
Hu Yunqing
CRRC Zhuzhou Institute Co., Ltd.
Henry Zhang
Analog Devices
Richard Zhang
Megmeet USA
Jianping Zhou
ZTE Corporation

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