Yaosuo Xue

Bio

Yaosuo Xue is a Distinguished R&D Staff at ORNL. He joined in ORNL in 2015 from Siemens Corporate Research where he had been leading Siemens North American Corporate power electronics R&D since 2009. He also worked for Capstone Turbine Corporation during 2005-2006. His current research interest is to address the fundamental modeling, analysis and control challenges of high-penetration power electronics in power grids. He is an IEEE Senior Member since 2012, and currently serves in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. He is also actively involved in IEEE Power Electronics Society serving technical committee chairs including IEEE ITRD and ITRW initiatives and TPC Chairpersons for several IEEE Conferences, including ECCE, APEC, PEDG, and WiPDA.

Professional Experience

• 2015/10 - present, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
• 2009/01 - 2015/09, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.,  Princeton, New Jersey, USA
• 2005/01 - 2006/02, Capstone Turbine Corporation, Chatsworth, California, USA
• 2001/01 - 2001/08, DNA Data Networking & Assemblies Ltd.,  Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• 1991/07 - 2000/06, The 3rd Survey & Design Institute of the Ministry of Railways, Tianjin, China

Awards

• 2023 Elsevier IJEPES Best Paper Award
• 2022 IET APSCOM High-Quality Paper Award
• 2018 IEEE PEDG Best Paper Award
• 2010 Siemens Innovation Award
• 2005 UNB Board of Governors Merit Award for Graduate Studies
• 2005 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada PGS-D3 Award

Education

• 2006 - 2008, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
• 2001 - 2003, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
• 1987 - 1991, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Professional Service

• Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 2023-present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2015-present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 2014-present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2020-present
• Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Special Section on Advanced Medium-Voltage Power Electronics for Grid Interactive Applications, Oct. 2024
• Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Special Section on Topics of Power Electronics Interfaced Battery Energy Storage Systems, Jun. 2022
• Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, Special Compendium on All Power Electronics Grids, Dec. 2022
• Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Special Issue on High-Frequency-Link Power Conversion Systems, Feb. 2014
• Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Special Issue on Resilient Microgrids, Sept. 2016
• Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Special Issue on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications, Jun. 2016
• Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Special Issue on Modeling and Control of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy and Power Systems, Sept. 2014
• IEEE Power Electronics Society, TC1 Secretary, 2023-present
• IEEE Power Electronics Society, TC5 Journal Special Issue Co-Chair, 2021-present, 
• IEEE International Technology Roadmap for Distributed Energy Resources (ITRD), Chair for Standard and Business Engagement Committee, 2019-present
• IEEE International Technology Roadmap for Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductor (ITRW), Chair for SiC Utility Applications, 2017-present
• IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), Special Sessions Chair, 2023, 2024; Chair of Research & Government Lab Partnership Committee, 2023; TPC Vice-Chair, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022
• IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA), TPC Chair, 2015; Steering Committee, 2013
• IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), TPC Co-Chair, 2013

Professional Affiliations

• IEEE Senior Member
• IEEE Power Electronics Society
• IEEE Power and Energy Society

Trademarks and Patents

1. “Single phase inverter topology method,” U.S. Patent No. 9,009,956, Apr. 21, 2015.

2. “Power system stabilization using distributed inverters,” U.S. Patent No. 9,640,997, May 02, 2017.

3. “Flexible control architecture for microgrid resiliency,” U.S. Patent No. 10,116,164, Oct. 30, 2018.

Publications