| Meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Giri Venkataramanan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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Research area Research covers the major aspects of electrical power conversion systems in different application areas including solar energy, wind energy, battery energy storage, transportation systems, industrial drives and processes, microgrids and utility power transmission and distribution. The research group focuses on pragmatic design and practice-oriented analytical studies, coupled with experimental work that is rooted in the Wisconsin Idea, with a deep commitment to technology equity.
What excites you about your work?
“I’m daunted by the challenges and excited about our progress. Our survival and ability to thrive as a human race depends on energy, so I feel like I’m a 21st century coal miner. I’m not creating energy, but I’m working to make sure it’s in a form people want to use, convenient and available. Today, electricity is energy’s most convenient form. Being in the space of electrical energy and power conversion excites me because it plays a critical and enabling role for people’s energy needs, to feed their endless enterprises.”
What do you hope to achieve?
“I see our programs as a mechanism to prepare the leaders of the next generation, who work in industry, start companies or become faculty members. From the perspective of a university researcher in the energy field: While it takes decades to see your innovation get used in the real world, in the shorter term, working with students and the ability to share and grow creative skills with them, like how you approach a problem, and more importantly, how you treat people, is rewarding.”
Professor Venkataramanan’s leadership and research advances the entire field of power electronics. It is a privilege to work with Giri and to promote their technologies within industry.
– Michael Carey, WARF, Licensing Manager
Want to learn more?
Michael Carey, [email protected], 608.960.9867