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Harish S. Krishnamoorthy, PhD (he/him/his)

University of Houston

Dr. Harish Krishnamoorthy (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.Tech. from the EEE department, NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, and his Ph.D. from the ECE department, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, in 2008 and 2015, respectively. From Jun. 2008 to Jul. 2010, he worked at GE Energy, Hyderabad, India, and received the Lean 6-Sigma Green Belt certification. From Apr. 2015 to July 2017, he was with Schlumberger, TX, USA. He has also worked at Ford and Google. Since Aug. 2017, Dr. Krishnamoorthy has been with the ECE department of the University of Houston (UH), where he is currently an Associate Professor.

Dr. Krishnamoorthy has over 110 conference/journal papers in refereed publications; and has two granted US patents. He is a member of the core organizing committee in various IEEE conferences, including INTELEC (General Chair in 2025), APEC (2025, 2024, etc.), ECCE (2024, 2023, etc.), and more. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and an elected representative of the UH faculty senate. He received the UH College of Engineering’s Research Excellence Award in 2022 and Teaching Excellence Award in 2021. He was also named an ‘OTC Emerging Leader’ by the Offshore Technology Conference, 2022, and an Early Career Research Fellow (ECRF) by the Gulf Research Program of the US National Academies. In 2023, he received the NSF CAREER Award (from the U.S. NSF), the IEEE PELS Young Professional Exceptional Service Award, and NIT Tiruchirappalli’s Young Achiever Award.

Dr. Krishnamoorthy has participated in research projects awarded by the U.S. NSF, DoE, DoD, etc. worth over $10 million. His research interests lie in WBG-based power conversion systems for mission critical applications, energy transition technologies, subsea/downhole electronics, reliability/health prediction, etc. Dr. Krishnamoorthy has given over 40 national and international invited talks on related areas over the last 5 years.

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