Professor

Education 

2013   Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WEMPEC, USA.

2008   M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea.

2004   B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (Double major), Seoul National University, Korea.

Employment

Feb. 2023 - Jan. 2024: Visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Mar. 2020 - Jan. 2023:  서울시립대학교 기획부처장

Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2022:  전력전자학회 국제이사

Mar. 2016 - Present:  Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, Korea

Sep. 2013 - Feb. 2016:  Senior Researcher, Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI), Korea

Awards and Honors 

2021      강의 우수 교수상

2020      Best paper award, IEEE PELS Workshop on Emerging Technologies: Wireless Power Transfer (WoW2020)

2015      Best paper award, IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC2015)

2004      Summa cum laude 

Research Interests

• All of the power electronics systems and all of the energy transfer systems

• Resonant wireless power transfer system design

• High frequency resonant inverter/converter design

• High frequency magnetic component design

• Intelligent power electronics transformer

Selected Papers 

Woonjung Hong, Sangmin Lee, Eunseo Choi, Seung-Hwan Lee, "Observer-Based Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking Controller for A Series-Series Tuned, 60 kHz Inductive Power Transfer System," in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, Early Access, Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10309939 

Woonjung Hong, Sangmin Lee, Seung-Hwan Lee, "Sensorless Control of Series-Series Tuned Inductive Power Transfer System," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Early access, 2022, Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9950546. 

Jaehong Lee, Junghyeon Roh, Myung-Yong Kim, Seung-Hyuk Baek, Sungmin Kim, Seung-Hwan Lee, " A Novel Solid-State Transformer with Loosely Coupled Resonant Dual-Active-Bridge Converters," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Oct. 2021, accepted. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9573408 

Sangmin Lee, Jaehong Lee, Eunchong Noh, Taeik Gil, and Seung-Hwan Lee, "Load Voltage and Current Observers for Series-Series Wireless Power Transfer System," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Jul. 2021, accepted. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9484665 

Sangmin Lee and Seung-Hwan Lee, "dq Synchronous Reference Frame Model of A Series-Series Tuned Inductive Power Transfer System," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 10325-10334, Dec. 2020 . Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8931676

Seung-Hwan Lee and Robert D. Lorenz, “Development and Validation of Model for 95% Efficiency, 220W Wireless Power Transfer over a 30cm Air-Gap,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 47, no. 6, pp.2495-2504, Sept. 2011.