phd position at Univeristy of Georgia (UGA) for Power Electronics & CPS

University of Georgia is ranked 47th nationally and ranked 13th in public university according to 2024 US News. A Ph.D. research assistantship position is available in the research area of Cyber-Physical Systems Informatics and Security. The graduate research assistantship includes a monthly stipend and full tuition waiver.


Prof. Jin Ye is looking for several highly-motivated PhD students and postdocs who have expertise in  one of the following areas: power electronics, electric machines, smart grid security, control and data analytics. The preferred start date is spring 2024.

Dr. Ye is an associate professor of electrical engineering and the director of intelligent power electronics and electric machines (IPEM) laboratory at the University of Georgia starting 2024. Her research has been actively supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and Department of Defense. Her group is one of the first to study security, reliability, resilience of power electronics and electric drives with applications to smart grids and electric vehicles. She is a general chair of 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), a publication chair and women in engineering chair of 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE). She is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Interested students should send curriculum vitae, along with descriptions of their backgrounds, research interests, publications and contact information for three references, via email, to Prof. Jin Ye (jin.ye@uga.edu). More information can be found at http://intelligentpower.engr.uga.edu/.