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Xiaofan Cui, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Email: cuxf@seas.ucla.edu
Address: 58-113 Engineering IV, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Dr. Xiaofan Cui is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to that, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Dr. Cui earned the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and B.S. degree in Economics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2016. He obtained the M.S. degree in Mathematics and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA in 2021 and 2022, respectively. In 2021, he was a Research Intern with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His research interests encompass the modeling, control, and design of high-performance power electronics for energy systems.
Dr. Cui's research has received several recognitions from universities, governments, and industries. Dr. Cui received the State of Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Award in 2021, the University of Michigan Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement in 2021, the Graduate Student Fellowship in 2016, and the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant in 2020. He has been honored with multiple travel grants from the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), and the University of Michigan. Currently, Dr. Cui holds the roles of Publication Chair for the 2023 IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL'2023) and Topic Chair for 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE'2023). He serves as technical committee members of the IEEE Industrial Power Converters Committee (IPCC) in the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), the Control and Modeling of Power Electronics Committee in the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), the Critical Power and Energy Storage Systems Committee in the PELS, and the Energy Systems Technical Committee (ESTC) in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).