Rate My Professor Jaedo Park

Jaedo Park is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver, part of the College of Engineering, Design and Computing. He joined the faculty in fall 2009 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016, and advanced to full Professor in 2020. Prior to his academic career, Park accumulated over 12 years of industry experience, including serving as Controls Software Engineer/Manager at Pentadyne Power Corp. in Chatsworth, CA, from 2004 to 2009, where he designed control algorithms and software for high-speed flywheel energy storage systems, and as Research Engineer/Manager at LG Industrial Systems in Anyang, Korea, from 1994 to 2001, developing induction machine drive systems such as high-speed elevator drives and general-purpose inverters. He also worked as an Engineering Consultant for Rotonix USA and Advanced Turbine Designs. Park holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (2007), with a dissertation on Modeling and Control of a High-Speed Solid-Rotor Synchronous Reluctance Flywheel Motor/Generator; an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (1994); and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hanyang University (1992).

Park's research specializes in energy conversion and storage systems, high-performance electric machine drive systems, renewable energy systems, energy harvesting systems, distributed power systems, microgrids, and smart grids. His projects include control of DC-bus based microgrid systems interfacing with wind turbines, photovoltaics, and energy storage devices, as well as low-power energy harvesting from microbial fuel cells. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and industry, his work addresses protection challenges in DC power systems for applications in microgrids, bulk power transmission, and low-voltage distribution. Park received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016 for “Smart Protection for DC Power Systems: Distributed and Proactive Approach,” the Outstanding Faculty in Research Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science in 2016, and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He recently secured a $1.2 million NASA grant to expand engineering access for minority students and contributes to the CU Grand Challenge Award under the ARIAD initiative for e-mobility in aging and disability applications. Key publications include “Distributed Energy Trading in Smart Grid Over Directed Communication Network” (IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2021), “A Two-Tier Distributed Market-Clearing Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing in Smart Grid” (IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2021), “Single-Transistor Sub-1-V Self-Startup Voltage Boost Energy Harvesting System for Microbial Fuel Cells” (Journal of Power Sources, 2019), and “Ground Fault Detection and Location for Ungrounded DC Traction Power Systems” (IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2015). Park developed a state-of-the-art power laboratory at CU Denver for hands-on training in power, machine, and drive technologies, teaching courses like Energy Conversion and Electric Drives.