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. 2025 - Present :  서울시립대학교 전자전기컴퓨터공학부  학부장

Jan. 2026 - Present:  전력전자학회 연구사업이사

Jan. 2025 - Present:  대한전기학회 I부문회 기술이사

Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2025:  전력전자학회 기획이사

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:  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

• AI/ML based power electronics system design methodologies

• Resonant wireless power transfer system design

• High frequency resonant inverter/converter design

• High frequency magnetic component design

• Intelligent power electronics transformer

Selected Papers 

Eunchong Noh, JunHyuk So, Jin-Hyuk Park, and Seung-Hwan Lee, "Machine-Learning-based Optimal Design of a 100 kW, 99%-Efficiency, 70-kV Insulated, Leakage-Inductance-Integrated Medium-Frequency Transformer," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Accepted.

Jaehong Lee, DongUk Kim, Sungmin Kim, Seung-Hwan Lee, "Design and Validation of a 100 kW, 60 kHz, High Efficiency, Loosely-Coupled-Resonant Dual-Active-Bridge Converter," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,  vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 1501-1511, Feb. 2025, Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10601645,  Download: LCR-DAB_accepted.pdf

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, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 5334-5343, Sept. 2024. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10309939 , Download: MEPT_accepted.pdf 

Woonjung Hong, Sangmin Lee, Seung-Hwan Lee, "Sensorless Control of Series-Series Tuned Inductive Power Transfer System," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 10578-10587, Oct. 2023,  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9950546, Download: Sensorless_control_accepted.pdf 

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, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 709-719, Jan.-Feb. 2022, Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9573408 , Download:  LCR_SST_accepted.pdf

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, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 5615-5624, June 2022.  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9484665 , Download: Load_Estimation_accepted.pdf 

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, Download: DQ_RRF_accepted.pdf