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Dong Dong
Position: Associate Professor (ECE)
Office: 672 Whittemore Hall, Virginia Tech
Phone: 540-231-7853
Dong Dong received his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2007; M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, in 2009 and 2012, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2012 to 2018, he was with Electric Power (EP) Organization at GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY, developing power conversion and electric system technology for renewable energy system integration, electric grid, offshore and marine, oil and gas, aviation, navy, and industrial applications. In 2018, Dr. Dong returned to Virginia Tech, where he is currently associate professor in The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include modeling, design, and digital control of power electronic system, low-voltage to medium-voltage high-frequency power electronics, high-power resonant converter and high-frequency transformer, power conversion systems for grid, renewable energy integration, and transportation applications, and real-time hardware-in-loop simulation.

Honors & Awards:
2024 - Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech
2024 - 1st Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
2023 - Prize Letter Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
2023 - IEEE IAS Industrial Power Converter (IPC) Prize Paper Award
2023 - Best Paper Award, iEnergy
2023 - 2nd Prize Paper Award from Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
2022 - NSF Career Award
2022 - IEEE IAS Transportation Systems Prize Paper Award
2022 - 3rd Prize Paper Award, IEEE International Power Electronics Conference
2021 - William M. Portnoy Prize Paper Award
2020 - Best Paper Award, IEEE International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (ECCE-Asia)
2020 - 1st Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
2017 - GE Gold-Medallion Patent Award
2017 - 2nd Prize Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
2015 - GE Technology Transition Award
2014 - GE Publication Award
2013 - Six-Sigma Green Belt Certificate


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