Xiaonan

Biography:

Xiaonan Lu received his B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. From October 2013 to December 2014, he was a Postdoc Research Associate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. From January 2015 to July 2018, he was with Argonne National Laboratory, first as a Postdoc Appointee and then as an Energy Systems Scientist. From July 2018 to July 2022, he was at Temple University as an Assistant Professor. In August 2022, he joined Purdue University as an Associate Professor. His research interests include modeling and control of power electronic inverters, hybrid AC and DC microgrids, and large-scale power electronics intensive power systems. Dr. Lu is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and the Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He serves as the Chair of the Conference Development Committee (CDC) at the IEEE-IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department (IPCSD) and the Vice Chair of the IEEE-PELS Technical Committee on Modeling and Control of Power Electronics. He serves as the Purdue University site Principal Investigator of the UNIFI (universal interoperability for grid-forming inverters) consortium, emphasizing the cross-cut topics of scalable modeling and control of grid-forming inverters. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Young Engineer of the Year Award from the IEEE Philadelphia Section and the 2024 Outstanding Faculty Awards in Discovery (Research) from Purdue University.