Baifeng Chen received his B.S. degree in Hydropower and Digital Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. Degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests include intelligent universal transformers, high-power grid-connected converters, and high-efficiency inverters for renewable energy application.

Rui Chen received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2003. He received his Master's Degree in Power Electronics and Electrical Drive in from the Institute of Electrical Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. From 2006-2011, he worked at Murata Power Supply in Shanghai as a design engineer, with his major responsibility being telecomm isolated DC-DC power bricks design work. His areas of interest include power electronics, embedded systems, and microcontrollers.

Younghoon Cho received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2004. From 2004 to 2009, he had worked as an engineer in the technical research institute at Hyundai Mobis. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interest includes power electronics, machine drives and high performance DSP applications. His contact information is yhcho98@vt.edu.

Zakariya Dalala received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Irbid, Jordan and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Currently, he is working towards the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA.

From 2005 to 2007, he was Electronic Design Engineer at Antares Advanced Test Technologies Co., From 2007 to 2008 he worked as RF Boards Design Engineer at SaiBas Co. From 2008 to 2009 he worked as instructor at German-Jordanian University. His research interest includes the development of Power Electronics systems for renewable energy applications.

Bin Gu received his B.S.E.E from Northeast Dianli Unviversity and his M.S. E.E from Zhejiang University, China, in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He worked as a project manager in Shanghai Kinway Technologies, Inc.from 2005 to 2008 and as a hardware R&D engineer in ABB Robotics Research Center, China. from 2008 to 2009. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. Degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His areas of interest include soft-switching technique, motor control and high power DCDC converters for EV,HEV and renewable energy applications.

Ahmed Koran received the B.S. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Currently, he is working towards the Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA.

From 2004 to 2006, he was a lab engineer at Yarmouk University. From 2007 to 2008 he worked as an instructor at Yarmouk University. He is currently a Graduate Research Assistant at the Future Energy Electronics Center (FEEC) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interest includes the development of Power Electronics systems for renewable energy applications.

Thomas received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree.  He is currently working as a research assistant in the Future Energy Electronics Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  His areas of interest include high efficiency bi-directional converters for energy storage applications and soft-switching techniques for inverters and dc-dc power converters.

Andy Poush is an electrical engineer and has worked mostly in software and controls for power electronics, rotating machines, and industrial processes. Andy has been an IEEE member since 1995 and is an alumnus of Virginia Tech having earned his bachelors there in Aerospace Engineering. Andy has returned to Va Tech and is currently in the Electrical Engineering Direct PhD program working with Dr. Jason Lai in the Future Energy Electronics Center. Since completing his coursework, Andy looks forward to publishing multiple transaction papers in pursuit of his Doctorate degree. His research area is renewable energy conversion and control, with special focus on photovoltaic inverters and electric vehicle contactless battery charging. His research funding has included US Department of Energy Sun Shot and US Army Sustainable Living Modules initiatives. After earning his PhD, Andy would like to pursue an academic career as a research scholar and professor.

John Reichl received his bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2001 and his masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2005. His research involves the development of electro-thermal physics based models of power modules for the Saber Circuit Simulator. John currently is working as a power systems engineer for Northrop Grumman in Baltimore MD where he specializes in the design and modeling of DC-DC converters for RF radar systems. At the same time, he is continuing his research at the National Institute of Standard Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg MD where he is developing an electro-thermal model and simulation of the freedom car power module to be used in a soft switching inverter.

Bret received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas in 2008.  He is now pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  He is currently working as a research assistant at the FEEC.  His research interests include grid-tie inverters as well as bi-directional converters energy storage applications.

Ben received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Alabama in 2008.  He is now pursuing the PhD degree as a research assistant at the FEEC, supported by the Bradley Foundation.  His research interests currently involve the design and control of power electronics for renewable energy systems, specifically focused on adaptive control in photovoltaic and energy storage applications.

Zaka Zahid received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NWFP University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar, Pakistan, and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University (GWU), Washington DC in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Currently, he is working towards the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a Lecturer in the Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His current research interests are related to design and control of transformer isolated DC-DC converters.

Lanhua Zhang received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree both in Electrical Engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA. His areas of interest include power electronics, Modular Multilevel Converter and microcontroller applications.

Cong Zheng received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA. His areas of interest include power electronics, LED driving circuits, energy harvesting and renewable energy applications.