• Office Address: 508 Min H. Kao Building
• Phone: 865-974-0002
• E-mail: jiangbiao.he@utk.edu

Education

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Marquette University, Wisconsin, 2015

Responsibilities

• Associated with CURENT (an NSF-DOE joint ERC)
• Associated with Institute for Future Mobility

JiangBiao He is an Associate Professor with the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT), United States. Before joining UT in August 2024, he was an Associate Professor and the endowed Pigman Faculty Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky (UK). Previously, he worked in multiple large industry R&D centers, most recently as a Lead Engineer at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. Prior to joining GE in 2015, He was employed by Rockwell Automation as a power engineer, focusing on the product development of servo motor drives. He was also with Eaton Corporate Research in 2013 working on high-power SiC converters. He obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from Marquette University, U.S.

He’s research interests include advanced motor-drive systems and power electronics for broad emerging applications, including transportation electrifications, renewable energies, industrial automation, and others. At GE, he was a leading participant on the development of the first-ever megawatt-scale medium-voltage propulsion drive for hybrid-electric aircraft demonstration in the global aviation area, which won the GE Whitney Technical Excellence Award (highest recognition for breakthrough technology innovation at GE-GRC). He also worked on power converter reliability improvement for the 12-MW GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbine system design, the then largest wind turbine in the world. He is the author/coauthor of over 150 peer-reviewed technical articles, one textbook, and 10 U.S. patents.

He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2016, and has served as an Editor or Associate Editor for multiple prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions TPEL, TIA, TIE, and TTE. He has served in various positions of the organizing committees for numerous international conferences (ECCEs, IEMDCs, ITECs, etc.), and has been an active member of several IAS/PELS technical committees and IEEE Standards working groups. He was elected as the Chair for IEEE IAS Schenectady Chapter (NY, 2017-2018) and has been an IEEE-IAS Council member since 2017. He recently served as the Chair for IEEE Lexington Section (KY, 2020-2022).

He is the recipient of the 2019 Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award recognized by IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2021 Outstanding Teacher Award recognized by the UKY ECE Department, 2023 Faculty Excellence in Research Award, and 2024 Faculty Excellence in Service Award recognized by the UKY College of Engineering. He was also recognized on the Stanford-Elsevier’s list of World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022 and 2023.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2018 Whitney Technical Excellence Award, GE Global Research
• 2019 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award
• 2021 Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Kentucky
• 2022 Stanford-Elsevier’s list of World's Top 2% Scientists
• 2023 Stanford-Elsevier’s list of World's Top 2% Scientists
• 2023 Faculty Excellence in Research Award, University of Kentucky
• 2024 Faculty Excellence in Service Award, University of Kentucky

• Electric Motor-Drive Systems
• Power Electronic Converters
• Health Monitoring and Fault-Tolerant Power Apparatus
• Transportation Electrifications (EVs, Aircraft, Ships, etc.)
• Renewable Energy Integration and Microgrid