Dr. Hang Dai - Principal Investigator.  Hang Dai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah State University (USU) and a faculty member of the NSF ASPIRE Engineering Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2021.

Prior to joining USU, Dr. Dai served as a Lead Engineer at GE Global Research and GE Aerospace Research (2021–2025). His research interests center on power electronics and electromechanical energy conversion, with a focus on leveraging next-generation wide-bandgap (WBG) devices for transportation electrification (e.g., more electric aircraft), energy conversion (e.g., integrated motor drive), cyber-physical security (e.g, electromagnetic interference and susceptibility), and emerging energy infrastructure (e.g., AI data center power delivery). 

Dr. Dai has served as the Principal Investigator and Technical Lead on multiple multi-million dollar government-funded projects, developing advanced power converters (from kW to MW, micro-volt to kilo-volt, DC-10s of GHz) characterized by high efficiency, high power density, high reliability, and optimized electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). 

He has published 30+ peer-reviewed papers and has 10+ granted/pending U.S. patents (25+ as the first author/lead inventor). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics on Power Electronics.