Payman Arabshahi named UW lead at new NSF Center for Soil Technologies
UW ECE Associate Professor Payman Arabshahi was recently named site director and principal investigator at the UW for this new, multi-institutional, NSF-funded Center.
Overview
Power and Energy Systems research at UW ECE includes interdisciplinary work at all energy scales, ranging from nanowatts to gigawatts. Our faculty are active in smart grid, integration of renewable energy sources, grid security, energy economics, and solar and electromagnetic energy harvesting. UW ECE faculty are leaders in the Clean Energy Institute and work with local utilities and grid systems operators.
Topics
Power Systems
Faculty: Daniel Kirschen, Baosen Zhang
Power Electronics
Faculty: Alex Mamishev, Jungwon Choi
Renewable Energy
Faculty: Daniel Kirschen, Baosen Zhang, Alex Mamishev, Jungwon Choi
Photovoltaics and Energy Harvesting
Faculty: Scott T. Dunham, Joshua Smith
Latest News
Zerina Kapetanovic receives Yang Research Award, other honors, and secures a tenure-track faculty position at Stanford University
Recent UW ECE graduate Zerina Kapetanovic (Ph.D. ‘22) has received high honors for her work while at UW ECE. She will join Stanford University in September 2023 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
UW ECE-led research teams receive CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund awards
Two UW ECE-led research teams have been named recipients of CoMotion Gap Fund awards, which provide funds to help ease the transition between academic research grants and attracting seed-stage private investment.
The Integrator 2022 is now available!
Read this year's issue of The Integrator — UW ECE's flagship, annual magazine highlighting the Department's extraordinary faculty research, student achievements, alumni stories, special events and more!
Originating from UW research, Zap Energy is on its way to making sustainable energy from nuclear fusion a practical reality
UW ECE Research Professor Emeritus Brian Nelson (center) is co-founder and chief technology officer of Zap Energy, a UW spinout that seeks to bring nuclear fusion power to the electrical grid.
UW ECE welcomes seven new faculty members
Beginning this summer and extending through winter quarter next year, UW ECE is welcoming seven new faculty members who bring a wealth of expertise in a wide range of technical areas and fields of study.
Researchers
Research Labs
- Intelligent Systems Lab
- Renewable Energy Analysis (REAL) Lab
- Nanotechnology Modeling Laboratory
- Sensor Systems Lab
- Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL)
Latest Projects
Representative Publications
- Decentralized interleaving of parallel-connected buck converters
- A multilevel DC to three-phase AC architecture for photovoltaic power plants
- Using Battery Storage for Peak Shaving and Frequency Regulation: Joint Optimization for Superlinear Gains
- Model-Free Renewable Scenario Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks
- Real-Time Prediction of the Duration of Distribution System Outages
- Sharing Energy Storage Between Transmission and Distribution