Princeton Power Electronics Research Lab

111B Andlinger Center, Princeton University

Principle Investigator

Minjie Chen
Assistant Professor
217 Andlinger Center
609-258-7656
minjie@princeton.edu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Princeton University

You can find my Google Scholar Page & CV here.

Here is a brief OVERVIEW of the research in our group.

Recent HIGHLIGHTS of the research in our group.

Current Members

Yufei Li
Postdoc Research Associate
yl5385@princeton.edu
Grid-interface Power Electronics, Data Driven Methods
From: Xian Jiaotong University

Ping Wang
Graduate Student
ping.wang@princeton.edu
Power Delivery for Future Data Systems
From: Shanghai Jiaotong University

Youssef E. Elasser
Graduate Student
yelasser@princeton.edu
Grid Scale Energy Storage Systems and Point-of-Load Converter
From: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Daniel Zhou
Graduate Student
dz8@princeton.edu
Advanced Control and Novel Magnetic Structures
From: University of Waterloo

Haoran Li
Graduate Student
haoranli@princeton.edu
Machine Learning and Magnetics Modeling
From: Tsinghua University

Mian Liao
Graduate Student
mianl@princeton.edu
Machine Learning and Control of Power Electronics
From: Virginia Tech

Tanuj Sen
Graduate Student
tsen@princeton.edu
High Power Radio Frequency Power Electronics
From: ETH Zurich & BITS Pilani

Hsin Cheng
Graduate Student
hsin@princeton.edu
Power Electronics Topologies and Digital Power Architecture
From: National Taiwan University

Shukai Wang
Graduate Student
sw0123@princeton.edu
Data Driven Methods for Power Electronics
From: Michigan State University

Alumni

Graduate and Postdoc

Diego Serrano, Postdoc Research Associate, Princeton ’22
Start Job: Senior Engineer, Wolfspeed

Jaeil Baek, Postdoc Research Associate, Princeton ’22
Start Job: Analog Design Engineer, Intel

Yenan Chen, Postdoc Research Associate, Princeton ’21
Start Job: Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University

Ming Liu, Postdoc Research Associate, Princeton ’20
Start Job: Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Jing Yuan, Visiting Graduate Student, Princeton ’19
Start JOb: Postdoc Research Associate, Aalborg University

Yueshi Guan, Visiting Graduate Student, Princeton ’18
Start Job: Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology

Undergraduate

Vincent Yang, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’22
Start Job: Intel

Cindy Li, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’22
Start Job: Texas Instruments

Petru Cohut, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’22
Start Job: Wall Street

Avi Bendory, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’21
Start Job: Bloomberg

Alex Ju, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’20
Start Job: Microsoft

Eric Dogariu, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’20
Start Job: Raytheon Technologies

Abdulghafar Al Tair, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’19
Start Job: Software Engineer at Asana

Parker Kushima, Undergraduate Student, Princeton ’19
Start Job: Hawaiian Electric

Fida Newaj, Undergraduate, Princeton ’18
Start Job: Systems Engineer at Honnywell

Group Photos

Presentation at MIT after 5 years

Reunion with Prof. Perreault at MIT

In front of Prof. Kassakian's office at MIT

Visit Intel AZ with Prof. Sullivan and Youssef Elasser

Group Lunch at Brick House, Go Spain!

Diego's Farewell Group Lunch

Prof. Mantooth at Princeton

Prof. Kolar at ETH Zurich

Prof. Maksimovic at Boulder

Prof. Dujic at EPFL

Huai at Aalborg

Cindy and Petru at ECE final thesis presentation

Prof. Sanders at Princeton

Youssef at TI headquarter

Jaeil Farewell at Mori Sushi
Haoran Li, Minjie Chen, Jaeil Baek, Shukai Wang, Ping Wang, Hsin Cheng, Diego Serrano, Daniel Zhou, Youssef Elasser.

Farewell meeting with Jaeil 2022

APEC 2022 in Houston
Youssef Elasser, Minjie Chen, Daniel Zhou, Hsin Cheng, Diego Serrano, Ping Wang, and Haoran Li.

Yenan Farewell at the JFK Airport 2021
Yenan Chen and Minjie Chen.

Group Photo at PwrSoC 2021
Minjie Chen, Prof. Jason Stauth (Dartmouth), Daniel Zhou, Jaeil Baek, Ping Wang, Haoran Li, Youssef Elasser, and Diego Serrano Lopez (taking photo).

Group Photo at the Casino Pier Breakwater Beach

Group Photo at the Casino Pier Beach 2021
Minjie Chen, Daniel Zhou, Youssef Elasser, Haoran Li, Mian Liao, Hsin Cheng, Evan Dogariu, Ping Wang, Jaeil Baek, Yenan Chen

Group Dinner at Tardi's Ristorante Italiano 2021
Yenan Chen, Evan Dogariu, Youssef Elasser, Hsin Cheng, Haoran Li, Ping Wang, Daniel Zhou, Minjie Chen, Jaeil Baek, Mian Liao

Farewell Meeting with Ming 2020
Ming Liu, Minjie Chen

Group Photo at ECCE 2019
Jing Yuan, Jaeil Baek, Youssef Elasser, Yenan Chen, Ping Wang, Ming Liu, Minjie Chen

Group Dinner at Bluefish Grill 2019
Minjie Chen, Ming Liu, Jaeil Baek, Youssef Elasser, Yenan Chen, Ping Wang

Attending Open Compute Project at San Jose 2019

Open Compute Project Global Summit 2019
Yenan Chen, Ping Wang and Minjie Chen

Visiting Princeton High Performance Computing Center 2018

Princeton High Performance Computing Center 2018
Ping Wang, Youssef Elasser, Parker Kushima, Ming Liu, Yueshi Guan, Minjie Chen and Yenan Chen

New Year Group Dinner at Root 2018
Ping Wang, Fida Newaj, Ming Liu, Yueshi Guan, Minjie Chen and Yao Shen

Testing Drones in the backyard of Forbes 2017
Abdulghafar Al Tair, Alex Ju, Fida Newaj