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Alex Q. Huang

University of Texas at Austin

Alex Q. Huang received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1983, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering, Chengdu, China, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 1992.
From 1992 to 1994, he was a Research Fellow with the Magdalene College, Cambridge. From 1994 to 2004, he was a Professor with the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA. From 2004 to 2017, he was the Progress Energy Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering with North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, where he established and led the NSF FREEDM Systems Center. Since 2017, he has been the Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in engineering with The University of Texas at Austin. Since 1983, he has been involved in the development of modern power semiconductor devices and power integrated circuits. He fabricated the first insulated-gate bipolar transistor power device in China in 1985. He is the inventor and a key developer of the emitter turn-of thyristor. He developed the concept of Energy Internet and the smart transformer-based energy router technology. He has mentored and graduated more than 80 Ph.D. and master students.
He has authored and co-authored more than 500 papers in international conferences and journals. He has also been granted more than 20 U.S. patents. His current research interests include power electronics, power management microsystems, and power semiconductor devices. Dr. Huang is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the prestigious Research and Development 100 Award, the MIT Technology Review’s 2011 Technology of the Year Award, and the 2019 IEEE IAS Gerald Kliman Innovator Award.

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