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Biography

Jessica Boles is the Chenming Hu Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Power and Energy Center. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering. Her research interests span power electronic circuit topologies, control, and applications, as well as passive component design and fabrication. Her group is currently pursuing new power conversion strategies based on piezoelectric passive components to enable major advances in the performance, size, and cost of power electronics for a wide variety of electronic and energy systems.

Boles has received the ARPA-E IGNIITE Award, the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. Her work has been recognized with three IEEE prize paper awards and the IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award. She is a past recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the MIT Collamore-Rogers Fellowship, and the UT Knoxville Bodenheimer Fellowship. She is also a past recipient of the MIT EECS Department Head Special Recognition Award and the UT Knoxville Chancellor's Citation for Professional Promise.