• 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 in electrical engineering with the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and with CURENT at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). Prior to joining UT, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky, after he worked in multiple large industry R&D centers, including GE Global Research (NY), Rockwell Automation (WI), and Eaton Corporation (WI). He obtained his PhD degree 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 electrified transportation, renewable energies, data centers, and others. At GE (2015–2018), he was a lead engineer on the development of the first-ever megawatt-scale medium-voltage propulsion drives for hybrid-electric aircraft, 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 180 refereed papers, one textbook, and over 20 patent applications.

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 various leadership roles of the organizing committees for numerous international conferences (ECCEs, IEMDCs, ITECs, etc.), and has been an officer of several IAS/PELS/TEC technical committees and IEEE Standards working groups.

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

Professional Service

• General Chair, 2027 IEEE International Conference on Electric Machines and Drives (IEMDC-2027)
• Steering Committee Chair, IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC-AP), 2025-2026
• Technical Program Chair, 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE-2025)
• Technical Program Chair (Lead), 2025 International Conference on Electric Machines and Drives (IEMDC-2025)
• Technical Program Chair, 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED-2025)
• Vice Chair, IEEE IAS Transportation Systems Committee, 2024-2027
• Vice Chair, IEEE PELS TC3 on Electric Machines, Drives and Automation, 2025-2026

• 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