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Columbia Engineering announced today the establishment of a new center -- the Center of Advanced Electrification -- through a collaboration with Tau Motors, Inc. which includes more than $6 million of support across the initiative. A growth-stage advanced technology company that designs and develops next-generation products for electrification, Tau has been working closely with Matthias Preindl, Associate Professor of electrical engineering at Columbia, over the past six years to create efficient power conversion systems for a more sustainable future. Preindl will serve as the Center’s founding director. Article Credit: Holly Evarts
We would like to congratulate Elliott for receiving a Best Presentation Recognition award at the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2024!
He presented his conference paper Conducted Emissions Prediction and EMI Filter Design for a Variable-Frequency, Soft-Switching Inverter in the Power Electronic Converters technical session.
Professor Preindl answers questions and weights in on electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, helping to answer the question "Why is it so hard to charge electric vehicles on the road?" Read more about it here.
Matthias Preindl meets with with the Italian Minister of Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin on invitation of Consul General of Italy in New York, Fabrizio Di Michele. They discuss discuss energy, transportation, and environmental challenges together with other Italian researchers.
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MPLab's Jingping Nie has recently been named an Apple Scholar in a AI/ML. This fellowship will help support Nie's research, which focuses on smart AIoT systems. Read more about it here.
Boya Wang (MPLab PhD) receives the Spring 2023 Chiang Chen Industrial Fellowship at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, see the full article here.
Alexandre Msellati (MPLab PhD) has received the Byron fellowship, and Benjamin Drillings (MPLab MS) has received the Dean’s MS Academic Excellence award. See the full list of Fall 2022 fellowships and awards in the EE department here.
“AI Therapist for Daily Functioning Assessment and Intervention using Smart Home Devices” received Best Demo Runner-up Award at ACM SenSys 2022. The demo was led by Jingping Nie (MPLab PhD), read the full article here.
Postdoctoral Student Dr. Liwei Zhou (MPLab PhD 22') and Dr. Matthias Preindl win best paper award -- "A Multi-Layer Software-Defined Architecture with MPC-VFCSS-based Power Module for High Performance Electric Vehicle Energy Conversion" at MITAB 2022, read the full article here.
We hear a lot about machine learning, but how exactly is it useful in predicting lithium-ion battery degradation?
As the US speeds toward a future filled with electric vehicles, it's reasonable to wonder how much more demand the power grid can take. After all, during a recent heatwave, California's grid operator urged customers to limit charging their cars to avoid blackouts. However, energy and transportation experts say that with some planning, utilities are fully capable of handling more clean cars plugging in. Better yet, electric SUVs, trucks, and buses can strengthen the grid if deployed smartly.
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Battery-powered Teslas, Fords, and Volkswagens aren't about to overwhelm the US electrical grid, despite what Tucker Carlson and some Republican politicians say. Last month, electric-vehicle skeptics had a field day when California's utility urged customers to conserve power during a scorching heat wave by not charging their cars during certain hours. Some conservatives questioned how the state expected to ban sales of combustion-engine cars by 2035 if it couldn't handle the number of EVs on the road today.
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