UT Power Engineering Laboratory - "Powering the Future "

Sarina Adhikari
Sarina Adhikari is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at The University of Tennessee. She received her B.E (Electrical Engineering) from Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal in 2002 and her M.E. in Electrical Power Systems Management from Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand, in 2005. She worked as a Research Associate in Energy Field of Study, Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand after completing her Masters degree.
E-mail: sadhikar@utk.edu

Rui Bo
Rui Bo is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2000 and his M.S. in electrical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2003. He worked at ZTE Corporation and Shenzhen Cermate Technologies in Nanjing after completing his M.S. degree.
E-mail: rbo@utk.edu

Ashwini Chegu
Ashwini Chegu is a M.S student in Electrical Engineering at The University of Tennessee. She received her Bachelor's of Engineering (BE) in Electrical Engineering from Andhra University, India in 2006.
E-mail: achegu@utk.edu

Zhe Chen
Zhe Chen is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. He received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively.
E-mail: zchen9@utk.edu

Faete Filho
Faete Filho is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at The University of Tennessee. He received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil in 2004 and 2006 respectively. He worked as Associate researcher at the BATLAB Research Laboratory, Brazil in 2007 and he participates in two editions of the IEEE Future Energy Challenge. His current areas of Interest include power electronics, data acquisition systems and renewable energy sources.
E-mail: ffilho@utk.edu

Phanikrishna Gomatom
Krish Gomatom is a part-time Ph.D. student at the University of Tennessee. He is currently employed as a project engineer/scientist at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Knoxville, TN. He conducts electrical engineering research for Electric power utilities. His areas of research interest include Power system analysis, economics, market operation and cybersecurity. Mr.Gomatom is currently pursuing his PhD on a part-time basis at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
E-mail: pgomatom@utk.edu

Mithat Can Kisacikoglu
Mithat Can Kisacikoglu is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2005, and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama in 2007. His research areas include electrical power conversion, hybrid electric/fuel cell vehicles and renewable energy interface systems.
E-mail: mkisacik@utk.edu

SeongTaek Lee
SeongTaek Lee is an M.S. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. He has worked as an intern at the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since June 2004. His research interests are in finite element analysis of permanent magnet machines. He received the B.S. in mechanical engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1993 and a B.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee in 2003. He previously worked as a research engineer at Mando Machinery Company in Korea designing motors.
E-mail: slee10@utk.edu

Huijuan Li
Huijuan Li is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from North China Electrical Power University, China in 1999 and 2002 respectively. She previously worked as a research engineer at Shanghai Sieyuan Electrical Company in China on the field of ungrounded neutral distribution systems.
E-mail: hli26@utk.edu

Shengnan Li
Shengnan Li is a Ph.D. student who received the Min Kao Graduate Fellowship in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Xian Jiaotong University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Her research areas include electrical power conversion and dc-dc converters.
E-mail: sli14@utk.edu

Haiwen Liu
Haiwen Liu is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. He has been a research assistant in the Power Electronics Laboratory at UT since January 2005. He received the B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, China.
E-mail: hliu9@utk.edu

Seana McNeal
Seana McNeal is a M.S. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. She received her B.S. in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 2006. She is working at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, on high temperature power electronics.
E-mail: smcneal1@utk.edu

Curtis Miller
Curtis Miller was an M.S. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. He graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tennessee in 2002 and with a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Southeastern Oklahoma University in 1999. He has worked as an intern at Tennessee Valley Authority and currently is an intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is working in Oklahoma City for the FAA.
E-mail: Curtis.CTR.Miller@faa.gov

Shibani Mishra
Shibani Mishra is an M.S. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee. She received her Bacherlor's of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India in 2005.
E-mail: smishra@utk.edu

Niranjan Patil
Niranjan Patil is a Ph.D. student at The University of Tennessee. He received a M.S. student in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee in December 2004. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Instrumentation and Control P.V.P. Institute of Technology, India in August 2000. He then worked for two years as a Project Engieer (DCS) in MAPL, India.
E-mail: npatil@utk.edu

Lakshmi Reddy Gopi Reddy
Lakshmi Reddy Gopi Reddy received an M.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee in August 2007. Her M.S. thesis is titled, "Evaluation of Losses in HID Electronic Ballast Using Silicon Carbide MOSFETs." She completed her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from G.R.I.E.T., India in May 2005.
E-mail: lgopired@utk.edu

Nura Sabir
Nura Sabir is an M.S. student in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tuskegee University in 2005. She is a Pipeline Fellow.
E-mail: nsabir@utk.edu

Michael Starke
Michael Starke is a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering at The University of Tennessee and holds a Bodenheimer Fellowship. He is working as an intern at the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He graduated with a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee in May 2004 and August 2006, respectively.
E-mail: mstarke@utk.edu

Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at The University of Tennessee in December 2007 (Advisor: L. M. Tolbert). She received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Zheijiang University, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. She is presently working as a post-doc at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her area of research interest is modeling of silicon carbide based power electronics circuits.
E-mail: hzhang18@utk.edu