03/31/2026: Dr. Cui has been awarded binational funding from Mexico and California for his project on battery reuse. Special thanks to UC-Mexico Allianz and our collaborator, Prof. Yuzhang Li from Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
03/27/2026: Dr. Cui has been awarded a UCLA Teaching Learning Center Grant, focusing on enhancing hands-on and experiential learning, with an emphasis on integrating practical system demonstrations and modern engineering tools into the curriculum.
03/22/2026: Dr. Cui received the Young Scientist Award at the 2026 AI × Energy Summit in San Diego, recognizing his outstanding contributions to AI and energy research.
03/19/2026: Our paper, “Control-Oriented Modeling of Comparator Overdrive Delay for Stabilizing High-Frequency Current-Mode DC-DC Converters”, has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. Congratulations to PEEC PhD student Guanyu Qian!
03/12/2026: Our paper, “Hierarchical Partial Power Processing of Second-Life Battery-Integrated Grid-Connected Multilevel Inverters via Statistical Design”, has been accepted by the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics on Power Electronics. Congratulations to PEEC PhD student Rupeng Duan!
03/02/2026: PEEC undergraduate student George Spanodimos’s paper on a new power conversion for an automotive system has been accepted by the 2026 International Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC).
03/01/2026: The paper “Sensor-Lean Diagnostics of Battery Modules” has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2026 International Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC). Congratulations to PEEC PhD student Pornrawee Thonapalin!
02/11/2026: A collaborative paper, led by PEEC undergraduate student Ryan Persico, “Personalized Home Energy Management Using Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring and Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning”, has been accepted by the 2026 Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). This work is conducted in collaboration with UCLA SMERC. Congratulations to the team!
02/11/2026: Our paper, “Decentralized Attack-Resilient CLF-Based Control of Nonlinear DC Microgrids under FDI Attacks”, has been accepted by the 2026 Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). This work is a collaboration with UConn D2L2. Congratulations to the team!
2025
06/25/2025: Dr. Cui was selected as a Hellman Fellow. The UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Program supports promising junior faculty in advancing their research and creative endeavors, with the goal of accelerating career development and progress toward tenure.
05/01/2025: Dr. Cui received funding from the UCLA Academic Senate Council on Research (COR) through the Research Allowance Program (RAP), which provides support for advanced research-related activities.
03/10/2025: Dr. Cui was awarded the UCI–UCLA Kick-Start Collaborative Projects grant, funded by the Samueli Foundation, and is honored to collaborate with Prof. Smedley Ma on this project.
04/01/2024: Dr. Cui served as two Session Chairs of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) 2024, in Long Beach, Los Angeles.
03/25/2024: Dr. Cui served as a Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE 2024 Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL 2024).
03/20/2024: Dr. Cui was selected as a 2024 UCLA Innovation Fellow. This program, led by Startup UCLA with support from UCLA Technology Development Group (TDG), aims to foster entrepreneurial excellence among UCLA faculty.
03/01/2024: Dr. Cui delivered an invited talk on efficient power conversion for energy systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, hosted by Prof. Jing Tang. It was a pleasure to return to U-M as an alumnus. Go Blue!
02/10/2024: We presented two works on “Long-Term Calendar Aging across Commercial Lithium-Ion Cell Chemistries” at the 245th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in San Francisco, in collaboration with Prof. Simona Onori and Prof. William Chueh from Stanford University.
01/20/2024: Our paper, “Adaptive Health Monitoring for Second-Life Batteries,” was accepted to the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) in Toronto, Canada. Looking forward to presenting in Toronto this summer.
01/10/2024: Dr. Cui delivered a seminar to UCLA graduate students on how advances in power electronics are shaping modern battery energy storage systems. Many thanks to Prof. Ian Roberts for hosting.
08/01/2023: I am organizing an invited session on "Power Electronics in Energy Systems" with Prof. Jeffery Scrugg and Prof. Al-Thaddeus Avestruz for ACC 2024, in Toronto, Canada. Your contributions are highly welcomed!
06/04/2023: Our paper “A Unified Analytical Method to Quantify Three Types of Fast Frequency Response from Inverter-based Resources" is accepted for publication at the 22nd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
06/24/2023: Dr. Cui presented a talk on " Stability Guarantees for Cycle-by-Cycle Controlled DC-DC Converters" at the 2023 American Control Conference, in San Diego, California.
05/12/2023: Dr. Cui gave a technical presentation on“From Exhausted to Empowered: Unlocking the Potential of Retired EV Batteries” at Stanford Energy Solution Week, Stanford University. Gabriele and Aadil, thank you for the contributions!
03/06/2023: Dr. Cui serves as the Topic Chair of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) 2023.
02/15/2023: Our paper “ Robust System Monitoring and Control for Power Conversion in Battery Energy Storage Systems" is accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo, in Detriot, Michigan.
01/13/2023: Dr. Cui gave a talk about “Data-Driven Lifetime Prediction of Second-Life Lithium-ion Batteries for Grid Energy Storage” in Storage X Tech Talk, Stanford University.
11/10/2022: Our paper “Large-Signal Stability Guarantees for Cycle-by-Cycle Controlled DC-DC Converters" is accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters.
11/01/2022: Dr. Cui serves as the Publication Chair and Technical Program Committee of IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics.
07/30/2022: Dr. Cui joined Stanford Energy Control Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow.