Spencer P. Cochran

Spencer Cochran was born in Knoxville, TN, USA, in 1992. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2015, the M.Sc. degree in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in 2021, all from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.

His graduate work focused on wireless power transfer at both 150 kHz and 6.78 MHz, which included power stage design, system tuning, distortion reduction, and dual-loop control design. He was a power engineer with Astranis Space Technologies Corp. for 3.5 years in San Francisco, CA where he aided in designing their satellite systems. He currently leads a wireless power transfer initiative at ONRL that aims to increase the transfer distance in modern WPT systems. His research interests include high switching frequency converter design, wireless power transfer, multi-level and switched capacitor converter architectures, and control modeling.