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June 15, 2023 -- Dr. He Received Early Tenure & Promotion and Faculty Excellence in Research Award
June 15, 2023 -- Dr. JiangBiao He received early tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, as well as the 2023 Faculty Excellence in Research Award from UK College of Engineering. Thanks to all the research collaborators and project sponsors!
(From left to right: ECE Department Chair Dr. Michael Johnson, Dr. JiangBiao He, and Dean of UK College of Engineering Dr. Rudy Buchheit)
May 12, 2023 -- Lab Farewell Party for Group Member Jonathan Taylor's Graduation
May 12, 2023 -- The AMPERE Lab organized a farewell party for the graduation of Jonathan Taylor, an undergraduate researcher who has been working on electric propulsion power converters under the supervision of Dr. JiangBiao He since September 2021, sponsored by NASA-KY research grants. Upon graduation from the University of Kentucky, Jonathan will join Battelle Memorial Institute as an electrical engineer. Battelle is a private non-profit science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, managing a number of national laboratories and research facilities on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Congratulations to Jonathan!
May 1, 2023 -- 400MW Utility-Scale Battery Energy Storage Installed by PGE
May 1, 2023 -- Dr. JiangBiao He was interviewed by The Associated Press (AP) about PGE's recent installment of a 400MW utility-scale battery energy storage plant for power grid applications, the second largest installation in the U.S. Dr. He's comments were quoted in the news articles published by The Associated Press and Fortune, both are well-known global media organizations. The links to access the news articles are provided below. One research topic that the AMPERE Lab has been focusing on over the past years is high-efficiency power electronic converters and controls for utility-scale energy storage, and multiple technical papers have been published in various IEEE journals.
https://apnews.com/article/battery-storage-electricity-climate-change-en...
https://fortune.com/2023/04/28/portland-battery-facility-clean-energy/
April 26, 2023 -- Jonathan Taylor Received Best Presentation Award in 2023 UK-ECE Research Symposium
April 26, 2023 -- Jonathan Taylor, a senior undergraduate researcher at AMPERE Lab, received the Best Undergraduate Presentation Award in the 2023 UK-ECE Research Symposium. In this annual symposium, there are close to 40 presentations given by UK-ECE graduate and undergraduate researchers. Jonathan's work has been focusing on the development of a high-efficiency fault-tolerant electric propulsion inverter concept under the supervision of Dr. JiangBiao He. Jonathan also showcased the two compact inverter prototypes in the symposium that he has developed from scratch over the past year. The research has been partially sponsored by a NASA-KY URF program and our industry partner SanRex.
March 24, 2023 -- AMPERE Lab Presented Research Achievements in APEC-2023
March 22, 2023 -- The 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), a flagship conference in power electronics was just held in Orlando, Florida, on March 19-23, 2023.
During APEC-2023, a fault-tolerant high-efficiency T-Type multilevel SiC propulsion inverter prototype was demonstrated in our industrial partner SanRex's booth. The high-performance SiC inverter was designed by our USP student Jonathan Taylor, under the supervision of Dr. He, sponsored by a NASA-KY EPSCoR URF program. For more details about this inverter, please refer to our patent and paper as follows: J. He and N. Demerdash, “Fault-tolerant topology for multilevel T-type converters,” U.S. Patent 10,658,920, issued May 19, 2020, and our published paper J. M. Taylor, M. T. Fard and J. He, "A Multifunctional T-Type 4-Leg Inverter for Various Operation Modes of Electric Aircraft Propulsion," 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1205-1210.
Meanwhile, a paper based on our recent research achievements from the NSF project (#2135543) on smart coils for AC motors was presented by our PhD candidate Majid T. Fard. Our academic collaborators on this NSF project include Dr. Fariba Fateh's team at Kansas State University. The objective of this project is to develop an ultra-compact high-efficiency mitigation solution for the reflected surge overvoltages in long-cable-fed SiC motor-drive systems. The main paper information is provided as follows, and the full version can be accessed in IEEE Xplore soon.
M. Fard, J. He, M. Sadoughi, B. Mirafzal, and F. Fateh, "Smart Coils for Mitigation of Motor Reflected Overvoltage Fed by SiC Drives," 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC).
Feb. 27, 2023 -- Dr. JiangBiao He was Interviewed by PBS-KET on EV Charging Infrastructure
Feb. 27, 2023 -- Dr. JiangBiao He was Interviewed by Mr. Casey Parker-Bell at Kentucky Educational Television (KET), the largest PBS state network in U.S. This interview is about the development of charging infrastructure of electric vehicles in Kentucky. The episodes can be found on the KET website: https://www.ket.org/
Jan 4, 2023 - A Pathway Towards an Engineer and Educator in Power Electronics
Jan 4, 2023 - Dr. JiangBiao He was interviewed recently by IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, a flagship academic magazine of IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) with decades of history. The 5-page article reporting his pathways of becoming an engineer and educator in power electronics was published on IEEE Industry Applications Magazine (Vol 29, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2023), which can be accessed in the link below:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9994269
Dec 15, 2022 - Welcome New PhD Students and RAs Mohamed Y. Metwly and Yiju Wang
Dec 15, 2022 - Welcome two new PhD students and research assistants, Mohamed Y. Metwly and Yiju Wang, to join AMPERE Lab at the University of Kentucky.
Mohamed Y. Metwly received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 2018, and the M.Sc. from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt, in 2022. His research interests include machine design, battery chargers, electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and multi-objective optimization, and he has published multiple papers on these topics in the IEEE journals.
Yiju Wang obtained the B.S. degree in electrical engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2022. His research focuses on advanced power electronic converters and motor drives.
Nov. 1, 2022 -- Our Paper on Wind-Solar Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems is Ranked as the Most Popular Paper in IEEE Open Journal of the IES
Nov. 1, 2022 -- Our recently published paper on wind-solar hybrid renewable power systems has been ranked as the most popular paper in IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society. The paper was led by Dr. Pranoy Roy, who has graduated recently from UK AMPERE Lab and joined Eaton Research Labs as a Lead Engineer, and other co-authors include: Dr. JiangBiao He, Director of AMPERE Lab, Dr. Tiefu Zhao, Associated Professor in Electrical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Dr. Yash Singh from Eaton Research Labs. More information about this paper is provided as follows, which can be accessed in IEEE Xplore.
P. Roy, J. He, T. Zhao and Y. V. Singh, "Recent Advances of Wind-Solar Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for Power Generation: A Review," in IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, vol. 3, pp. 81-104, 2022, doi: 10.1109/OJIES.2022.3144093.
Access link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/topAccessedArticles.jsp?punumber=8782706
Oct 10, 2022 -- AMPERE Researchers Presented Project Achievements in ECCE-2022 and IAS Annual Meeting in Detroit, MI
Oct. 10, 2022 -- AMPERE researchers presented recent project achievements in 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE-2022) and IAS Annual Meeting (IASAM), which were co-hosted in Detroit, MI, on Oct. 9-13, 2022. These projects have been sponsored by DOE ARPA-E, GE Research, National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, and the Department of Education. The following topics were presented during ECCE-2022 and IASAM:
[1] Benjamin Luckett and JiangBiao He, "Reliability-Oriented Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Electric Aircraft Propulsion Drives," 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE-2022), Oct. 13, 2022.
[2] Pranoy Roy, Yuan Liao, and JiangBiao He, "Energy Storage for Hourly Dispatching Utility-Scale Solar Power Using HOMER Pro - A Cost Investigation," 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE-2022), Oct. 11, 2022.
[3] Reza Ilka, JiangBiao He, Yin Weijun, Jose E. Contreras, and Carlos G. Cavazos, "Multi-Physics Modeling and Simulation of Oil-Immersed Power Transformers Based on 3D Finite Element Analysis and Finite Volume Method," 2022 IAS Annual Meeting, Oct. 12, 2022.
Additionally, Dr. JiangBiao He was invited and presented the following two special session topics during ECCE-2022, together with experts from industries, national labs, federal government agencies, and academia.
[4] Special Session 14: Advanced Power Electronics and Drives for Commercial Vehicle Electrifications
[5] Special Session 16: Towards Enhancing the Resiliency of Grid-Interactive Inverters
