DONG CAO'S SHORT BIO: 

Dr. Dong Cao received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China, in 2005 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing USA, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He worked at Ford Motor Company as a power electronics core engineer for hybrid electric vehicle electrified driveline hardware development from Jan. 2012 ~ July. 2014. He was an assistant professor at North Dakota State University from 2014 ~ 2019. He joined University of Dayton at as GE EPISCenter professor and associate professor in since Aug. 2019. 

His research interests include emerging applications utilizing high power or high frequency wide bandgap devices e.g. SiC or GaN; high density power conversion using innovative topologies for data center, solar farm, and transportation electrification; health monitoring and lifetime prediction of power converters; smart grid integration with renewable energy sources; LED driving; power conversion topology innovations including Z-source, multilevel, switched-capacitor, and soft-switching resonant converters, and intelligent gate drive for IGBT/SiC power modules. He received two prize paper awards from the IEEE Industry Applications Society Industrial Power Converter Committee in 2010 and 2011. He received a prize paper award from IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 2018. He is the recipient of the outstanding presentation award at Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) 2010. He received the prize poster award at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE) 2011. He is the associated editor for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He was the guest associated editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Special Issue on Impedance - Source Converter Topologies and Applications and CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications Special Issue on Applications of Wide Bandgap Devices.

NEWS

Mar 2023

• [Conference] Speed Lab attends APEC 2023 and presented 3 papers

• [Visit] Speed Lab visits GE EPISCenter 

Dec 2022

• [Visit] Dr. Cao and Josh, Kevin Visit AFRL

Nov 2022

• [Visit] GE EPISCenter Engineers Visit SPEED Lab

Oct 2022

• [Talk] Dr. Cao Delivered a talk at GE EPISCenter

Oct 2022

• [Conference] Speed Group Attends ECCE 2022, Maohang and Xiaoyan Presents a student demo

Aug 2022

• [Paper] Yanchao's Journal paper get accepted by OJPEL, Congs Yanchao!

Mar 2022

• [Conference] SPEED Group Attends APEC 2022, Dr. Cao delivered a Tutorial

Jun. 2021

• [Grant] Dr. Cao received from NAVY STTR Phase I award

• [Award] Mengxuan Wei received APEC 2021 Best Presentation Award, Congratulations Mengxuan !

Oct. 2020

• [Grant] Dr. Cao received "UAM Electric Motor Drive System with Predictive Maintenance" from Airforce STTR Phase I award

• [Prize Paper] Ze Ni, Yanchao Li, Chengkun Liu, Mengxuan Wei and Dong Cao “Development of a 100kW SiC Switched Tank Converter for Automotive Applications” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2019, Baltimore, MD, 2019. from IEEE -IAS. Congratulations Team!

Jan. 2020

• [Grant] Dr. Cao received "A Hybrid Fuel Cell-Battery-Capacitor Power Source for UAS” grant from Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) ~$1.2M

Nov. 2019 

• [Conference] SPEED Group  Attended WiPDA 2019 and presented two papers: 'Zero Voltage Switching Switched-Tank Modular Converter for Data Center Application  ','Automatic Big Data Acquisition of Electrical Parameters in Wide Bandgap Devices  '

Sep. 2019 

• [Conference] SPEED Group  Attended ECCE 2019 and presented two papers: 'Development of a 100 kW SiC Switched Tank Converter for Automotive Applications   '

Jun. 2019 

• [Conference] SPEED Group  Attended ITEC 2019 and presented two papers: 'A Comparison of 100 kW SiC DC-DC Converters for Electric Vehicles   '

May. 2019

• [Award] Dr. Cao received North Dakota State University College of Engineering 2019 Early Career Research Excellence Award [1 Asst. Prof. /year]

• [Award] Yanchao Li received North Dakota State University College of Engineering 2019 Graduate Research Assistant of the Year Award [1 RA/year]

Mar. 2019 

• [Conference] SPEED Group  Attended APEC 2019 and Present two papers: 'A GaN switched tank converter with partial power voltage regulation for electric vehicle applications  ', 'A 100kW Switched-Tank Converter for Electric Vehicle Application  '

Nov. 2018

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended WiPDA 2018 and presented: 'Optimal Operation and Comparison of ZCS and ZVS Multilevel Modular Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converter '

Sep. 2018

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended ECCE 2018 and presented four papers: 'High-Efficiency Multiple-String Linear LED Driver with Genetic Algorithm for Low Power Application ', 'Instantaneous Pulse Power Compensator for High-Power-Density Single-Phase Inverter ', 'Resonant Multilevel Modular Boost Inverters for Single-Phase Transformerless Photovoltaic Systems ', 'An Isolated Composite Resonant Multilevel Converter with Partial Power Voltage Regulation for Telecom Application '

Aug. 2018

• [Grant] NSF 1810428 'A Ultra Efficient Composite Modularized Power Delivery Architecture for Solar Farm and Data Center'

Mar. 2018

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended APEC 2018 and presented two papers: 'Miller Plateau as An Indicator of SiC MOSFET Gate Oxide Degradation', 'An Ultra Efficient Composite Modular Power Delivery Architecture for Solar Farm and Data Center '

Nov. 2017

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended WiPDA 2017 and presented two papers: 'GaN Based Inverter with High Conversion Ratio and Sinusoidal Output for Motor Drive Applications ', 'Comparison of GaN Based ZCS Resonant Switched-Capacitor and Cascaded Voltage Divider DC-DC Converter for Data Center Application '

Sep. 2017

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended ECCE 2017 and presented two papers: 'Single-Wing Resonant Multilevel Converter Featuring Reduced Number of Resonant Inductors ', 'A High Efficiency Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converter for Data Center '

Mar. 2017

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended APEC 2017 and presented five papers: 'A Minimized DC-Link Capacitor with Active in-Series and -Parallel Power Decoupling Method for Single-Phase Inverter ', 'DC-Link RMS Current Reduction by Increasing Paralleled 3-Phase Inverter Module Number for Segmented Traction Drive ', 'Review of SiC MOSFET Based Three-Phase Inverter Lifetime Prediction ', 'Multilevel Modular Switched-Capacitor Resonant Converter with Voltage Regulation ', 'A Resonant Modular Multilevel DC-DC Converter with Zero Current Switching for MVDC Application '

Nov. 2016

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended WiPDA 2016 and presented 'Single-Wing Ladder Resonant Multilevel Converter '

Sep. 2016

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended ECCE 2016 and presented 'A High-Power-Density Single-Phase Inverter with Pulse Current Injection Power Decoupling Method '

Mar. 2016

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended APEC 2016 and presented 'A Wide Band-gap Device Based Multilevel Switched-Capacitor Converter '

Sep. 2015

• [Conference] SPEED Group attended ECCE 2015 and presented three papers: 'A High Power Density Single-Phase Inverter with In-Series and-Parallel Power Decoupling Method', 'A high voltage gain modular multilevel DC-DC converter', 'Multilevel Modular Switched Capacitor Converters with Reduced Device Count for Hybrid and Electric Vehicle'