Yilu Liu not only gets a charge out of her research, she makes sure the charge stays on for all of us.
Liu, the joint UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Governor’s Chair for Power Electronics, serves as deputy director of CURENT, the Center for Ultra-Wide-Area-Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks.
Housed in the Tickle College of Engineering, CURENT is a $38 million, National Science Foundation-funded center devoted to making the nation’s power grid more secure, reliable, and efficient.