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Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski

Director and Acting Executive Director

Bio | Website

Professor Jessica Boles

Co-Director and Principal Investigator in Power Electronics

Bio | Website

Professor Duncan Callaway

Principal Investigator in Power Systems

Bio | Website

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Professor Emeritus Seth Sanders

Principal Investigator in Power Electronics

Bio

Dr. Sascha von Meier

Principal Investigator in Power Systems

Bio

Professor Costas J. Spanos

Principal Investigator in Building Energy Efficiency

Bio


BPEC Researchers

  • Yicheng Zhu
  • Dr. Mustapha Touhami
  • Sahana Krishnan
  • Jiarui Zou
  • Tucker Skinner
  • Nagesh Patle
  • Nathan Biesterfeld
  • Sourav Naval
  • Logan Horowitz
  • Elisa Krause
  • Francesca Giardine
  • Rahul Iyer
  • Haifah Sambo
  • Rod Bayliss
  • Wentao Xu
  • Tahmid Mahbub
  • Dennis Woo
  • Emmi Wyttenbach
  • Shuyu Zhang
  • Marrin Nerenberg
  • Leheng Wang

BPEC Alumni

Nathan Miles Ellis, Postdoc – now at UC Santa Cruz

Kelly Fernandez, PhD – now at Form Energy

Nathan Brooks, PhD – now at Rose Hulman

Sam Coday, PhD – now at MIT

Ricky Liou – now at Amber Kinetics

Nathan Pallo, PhD – now at Form Energy

Ben Liao, MS – now pursuing PhD at Cornell

Rose Abramson, PhD – now at NVIDIA

Zitao Liao, PhD – now at Tesla

Sophia Chou, PhD – now at Enphase

Zichao Ye, PhD – now at Google

Evan Sandoval, PhD

Suhrith Bellamkonda

Maggie Blackwell, PhD – now at Hanwha Q Cells

Andrew Stillwell, PhD – now at UIUC

Pourya Assem, PhD – now at Texas Instruments

Wen-Chuen (Joseph) Liu, PhD – now at Cirrus Logic

Yayun Zhao

  • Dr. Nathan Ellis, Postdoc – now at UC Santa Cruz
  • Rose Abramson, PhD – now at NVIDIA
  • Maggie Blackwell, PhD – now at Hanwha Q Cells
  • Kelly Fernandez, PhD – now at Form Energy

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