Dr. Brandon Grainger

Prof. Brandon Grainger holds a PhD in electrical engineering (with a specialization in power conversion), a master's degree in electrical engineering, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (with a minor in electrical engineering), all from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering. He was one of the first original R.K. Mellon graduate student fellows through the Center for Energy. He also obtained an executive education certificate from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. He is currently an Eaton faculty fellow, associate professor, and director of the Electric Power Technologies Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Pitt. He is also the associate director of the Energy GRID Institute and co-director of Pitt AMPED. He is one of the co-architects of the electric power program at Pitt that started in the fall of 2008. His research interests are in electric power conversion, medium-to-high voltage power electronics (HVDC and STATCOM), general power electronic converter design (topology, controller design, magnetics), resonant converters and high power density design, power semiconductor evaluation (SiC and GaN), aerospace power conversion systems, EV motor drives, solid state transformer design, and optimized magnetic components.  Dr. Grainger has well over 110 publications published in various venues and 1 patent with others pending and is the editor of one research textbook.