• Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
• Executive Director, NSF I/UCRC on Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronics Systems
• 3217 Bell Engineering Center                                                                                                                          Fayetteville, AR 72701                                                                                                                                         
• Email: yuezhao@uark.edu yuezhao@uark.edu
• Tel.: +1 (479) 575-4627 

Dr. Yue Zhao received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA, in 2014. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, USA, in 2014-2015. Since August 2015, he has been with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is also affiliated with NSF I/UCRC on Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronics Systems (GRAPES) and National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT) at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Zhao’s current research interests include electric machines and drives, power electronics, and renewable energy systems. His research is current sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NSF ERC POETS, NSF I/UCRC GRAPES, Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Industry. He holds 4 U.S. patents and co-authored more than 100 papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings. Dr. Zhao is an Associated Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics.

Dr. Zhao was a recipient of 2018 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2020 IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, and the 2020 College of Engineering Dean’s Award of Excellence.