Prof. Yue Cao Energy Systems Group @ OSU

 

News & Announcements

2023

[11/1] An IEEE JESTPE paper on "Soft Turn-Off DC Solid-State Circuit Breakers" is accepted, a collaboration with Drexel Univ.!

[10/15] Funded! Our Energy Group is part of a DOE GRIP $50M project led by Portland General Electric, working on accelerating and deploying grid-edge computing. (OSU co-PI)

[8/1] An IEEE Trans. Industry Applications paper on "Three-Level T-type Converter for Aircraft Turboelectric Propulsion Systems" is accepted, a collaboration with Univ. of Arkansas!

[6/15] Prof. Cao received the prestigious university-wide Promising Scholar Award given to one junior faculty annually.

[5/15] Our group's 6 submitted ECCE papers all got accepted!

[3/25-5/15] Prof. Cao gave multiple talks at U. Michigan Ann Arbor, Ohio State U., Purdue, UC Berkeley, and U Washington Seattle.

[1/15] Congrats to PhD student Derek on the ARPA-E SUMMIT student fellowship!

2022

[12/15] An IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion paper on "power converter lifetime improvement for turbine array generation" is accepted!

[11/30] A semi-review semi-opportunity article on "capacitive wireless power transfer" is accepted to IEEE Trans. Transportation Electrification, a collaboration with Drexel Univ.

[11/22] Prof. Cao is now an IEEE Senior Member.

[8/31] First PhD student defended! Very proud of Alastair Thurlbeck who will start his dream job/location as a fulltime research engineer at NREL (US DOE National Renewable Energy Lab) in Denver, Colorado.

[8/9] VIP visit! US DOE Secretary Granholm, US Senator Wyden (Oregon), US Senator Merkley (Oregon), Oregon Governor Brown, visited our Pacific Marine Energy Center!

[8/8] A high-impact REVIEW article on "aircraft distributed electric propulsion" is accepted to IEEE Trans. Transportation Electrification, a collaboration with Univ. of Kentucky.

[7/31] Prof. Cao delivered an invited 1-hour keynote at IFEC 2022 (IEEE International Future Energy Challenge) sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society.

[6/1] Prof. Cao was selected into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontier of Engineering (FOE) program. Each year only 100 US early-career engineers and scientists are chosen from academia, industry, government across all engineering fields.

[5/31] Funded! Our Energy Group is going to lead a $1.93M DOE Water Office project on flexible hydropower plus storage. (OSU co-PI)

[5/1] Our group has 6 student-authored conference papers accepted in the past month: 1 ITEC, 2 ECCE, 3 PEDG.

[3/15] Congrats to MS student Trenton on graduation and joining Daimler Trucks North America in Portland! (Daimler is the parent company of Mercedes Benz)

[1/1] An IEEE Trans. Industry Applications paper on reliability modeling for fault-tolerant electric propulsion is accepted!

2021

[12/5] Funded! Prof. Cao received the prestigious NSF CAREER award. (Project lead PI)

[11/15] Prof. Cao is appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

[11/5] Funded! We are part of a $25.8M DOE Vehicles Office Supertruck project, collaborating with Daimler Trucks North America. (OSU Lead PI)

[11/1] Congrats to MS student Trenton on accepting a full-time offer at Daimler Trucks North America in Portland! (Daimler is the parent company of Mercedes Benz)

[10/15] Prof. Cao is appointed as the Special Sessions Chair of ECCE 2022.

[10/12] Prof. Cao was the Tutorials Chair for ECCE 2021 and also organized a special session/panel on "Booming the Blue Economy: A New Era for Wave and Hydrokinetic Energy". Invited panelists included DOE managers and industry senior leadership.

[9/5] An IEEE Trans. Transportation Electrification paper on machine learning enabled design automation and optimization is accepted!

[9/1] Funded! We are part of a $4.5M NAVFAC marine facilities project, collaborating with Univ. of Washington. (OSU co-PI)

[7/1] Prof. Cao successfully completed the Mid-Tenure review by the College of Engineering. Still more work to do for the Tenure-ship!

[6/30] Funded! We are part of a $400k NETL geoscience/pulsed-power project. (OSU co-PI)

[6/20] Prof. Cao completed a full year of remote teaching, including one new course on Advanced Motor Drives. He received an average of 5.7 (out of 6) teaching evaluation for the three courses this year. Notably, class enrollment was up by 33%, 120%, 150% for the 60-, 55-, 20-student classes.

[6/15] First-ever Postdoc Niraja moved onto a Senior Postdoc at UIUC with Prof. Kiruba Haran. Congrats!

[6/10] First-ever PhD student Alastair passed the Prelim. First-ever MS (independent advised) student Derek finished the MS defense and moves onto PhD. Congrats!

[5/15] Two ECCE 2021 papers accepted. One SDEMPED 2021 paper accepted. All first authored by advised students. Congrats!

[4/29] Prof. Cao gave an invited IEEE PELS webinar on "Machine Learning Enabled Design Automation and Optimization for Electric Transportation Power Systems", collaborating with Prof. Jana Doppa of Washington State Univ.

[3/15] Prof. Cao was featured in media coverage 1 and media coverage 2 about his recent DOE projects.

[3/5] Funded! We are part of a $1.5M DOE ARPA-E LOCOMOTIVES railway electrification project, collaborating with NCSU. (OSU Lead PI)

[2/25] An IEEE JESTPE journal paper on distributed solar MPPT is accepted!

[2/5] One APEC 2021 paper got accepted.

[1/5] Congrats to BS student Bailey on the internship offer at Tektronix (Beaverton/Portland) for Summer 2021.

[1/1] Congrats to PhD student Alastair on the return internship offer at Amazon Prime Air (Seattle) for Summer 2021.

2020

[12/22] Funded! We are part of a $1.5M DOE EERE Water Office wave energy microgrid project, collaborating with U of Alaska. (OSU co-PI)

[12/22] Funded! We are part of a $1.5M DOE EERE Water Office wave energy converter project, collaborating with U of Washington. (OSU co-PI)

[11/25] Funded! We are part of a $3.9M DOE ARPA-E SHARKS hydrokinetic project, collaborating with Univ. of Michigan. (OSU Lead PI)

[11/15] Funded! We are awarded two projects on rural-area grid/microgrid power electronics + energy storage solutions, sponsored by Portland General Electric. (Project Lead PI)

[10/1] Prof. Cao is appointed as Awards Chair of the new IEEE PELS Technical Committee #11 - Aerospace Power.

[9/15] An IEEE TTE journal paper on battery self heating is published, a collaboration with Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

[8/15] Prof. Cao will give an invited IEEE PELS / TEC webinar (8/19) on "Heavy-duty All-electric Urban Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)".

[8/15] Funded! We will investigate futuristic motor drive's potentials, sponsored by the Grainger Foundation. (Project Lead PI)

[7/10] A high-impact REVIEW article is accepted to IEEE Trans. Transportation Electrification special issue on MEA.

[7/5] Five (5) ECCE papers will appear in October. Special congrats to MS student Derek on the Travel Award.

[6/15] Prof. Cao taught 3 courses for 3 quarters in 2019/20 and received 5.9 (out of 6) overall teaching scores across the board.

[3/15] Funded! Prof. Cao was awarded Oregon State Learning Innovation Grant for transformative education. (Project Lead PI)

[2/20] Congrats to PhD student Alastair on the summer internship at Amazon Prime Air, Seattle, WA.

[2/20] Congrats to MS student Trenton on the summer internship at Microsemi (Microchip) in Bend, OR.

2019

2018