Yue Cao is a tenured associate professor in Energy Systems. Before joining OSU, he was a research scientist in the propulsions team at Amazon Prime Air in Seattle, WA. He has also worked with Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA; Halliburton Company, Houston, TX; Flanders Electric, Evansville, IN; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN; and Memphis Light Gas Water – Utility, TN. His research interests include power electronics, motor drives, and energy storage with applications in renewable energy integration and transportation electrification. He has been a PI or co-PI of projects sponsored by NSF, DOE ARPA-E, DOE EERE, NAVFAC, Portland General Electric, Amazon Prime Air, and Grainger Foundation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Dr. Cao is the 2023 OSU Promising Scholar awarded by the faculty senate. He received the 2022 NSF CAREER award. He was selected into the National Academy of Engineering Frontier of Engineering Class of 2022. He won the OSU Learning Innovation Grant in 2020. He received the Myron Zucker student award from the IEEE Industry Applications Society in 2010. He was a national finalist of the USA Mathematical Olympiad and state champion of the Tennessee Math Contest in 2006, awarded a full scholarship to attend the Univ. of Tennessee. Dr. Cao has been the Vice Chair of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) TC11 – Aerospace Power. He has been the TPC Special Sessions Chair, Tutorials Chair, and Vice Chair of multiple IEEE ECCE (Energy Conversion Congress Expo). He has served as an invited panelist for DOE and NSF proposal reviews as well as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.

Teaching
ECE 431/531 POWER ELECTRONICS
ECE 438/538 ELECTRIC VEHICLES
ECE 535 ADJUSTABLE SPEED DRIVES
ECE 539 ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS

Research Interests

• Power electronics
• Motor drives 
• Energy storage 
• Modeling, control, optimization
• Transportation electrification (truck, aircraft, UAV, charging) 
• Renewable energy (hydrokinetic, wave)
• Microgrids and energy efficient buildings
• AI enabled design methodologies

Associated Facilities/Labs
The Wallace Energy Systems & Renewables Facility (WESRF)
WESRF LinkedIn