Faculty

Seungdeog Choi (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.S. degree from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, and his M.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2004 and 2006, respectively, both in electrical engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in the Electric Power and Power Electronics program from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2010. From 2006 to 2007, he worked with LG Electronics in Seoul. Between 2009 and 2012, he served as a Research Engineer at Toshiba International Corporation, Houston, TX, USA. He was an Assistant Professor at The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA, from 2012 to 2018, and an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, MS, USA, from 2018 to 2024. Since August 2024, he has been a professor. His current research interests include degradation modeling, electromagnetic interference modeling, fault-tolerant control, and the fault-tolerant design of electric machines and power electronics systems.

EDUCATION

- Ph.D., Texas A&M  University – College Station, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas, USA, 2010

- MS, Seoul National  University, Electrical Engineering and Computer  Sciences, Seoul, Korea, 2006

- BS, Chung-Ang University, Electrical and  Electronics Engineering, Seoul, Korea, 2004

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCEs

- Professor at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, Aug. 2024 ~.

- Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, Aug. 2018~ Aug. 2024.

- Assistant professor at the University of Akron,  Oh, Aug. 2012~Aug. 2018.

- Design Engineer and later project leader, Toshiba  International Corporation, Houston, USA, Sep. 2008 ~ Aug. 2012

- Research and Development (R&D) Engineer, LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 2006 ~ Aug. 2007

AWARDs

- 2024 Faculty Research Award Winner at the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University.

- 2020 Certification of Teaching Excellent at Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missisippi State University.

- 2018 Best Paper Award (First place) / IEEE IAS TSC 

- 2018 Faculty Fellowshp from VentureWell Foundation.

- 2017 Firestone Research initiative fellowshop. 

IEEE SERVICEs

- Senior Editor at IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, 2025 ~ present

- Associate Editor at IEEE Transaction on Transportation Electrification, 2025 ~ present

- Student activity chair at International Electric Machine and Drive Conference (IEMDC), 2025.

- Associate Editor at IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, 2019 ~ 2025

- Guest associate editor in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 2020 ~ 2021

- Guest editor on a special issue of IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion, 2019 ~ 2020

- Associate editor at IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, 2018 ~ 2021

- Senior Member IEEE, 2017 ~ present

- Topics Chair at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE), 2014

- Track Chair at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Expo (APEC), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 

   2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026

- Publication Chair at IEEE Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics, and Drives,    2021.

- The active reviewer of various IEEE Transaction and conferences since 2009 ~ present