Professor and Director, School of Mechatronics
Simon Fraser University
Dr. John Shen is a professor and director of the School of Mechatronics at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. He was Grainger Chair Professor of Electrical and Power Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology between 2013 and 2021. He has more than 34 years of industrial, academic, and entrepreneurial experience in power electronics and power semiconductor devices with around 350 publications and 20 issued U.S. patents in these areas. He has been involved in circuit breaker research since 2013 and is an inventor of several patents and an author of over 30 publications on the subject. He served as PI of an ARPA-E CIRCUITS project on low-voltage solid-state circuit breakers, co-PI on an ARPA-E BREAKERS project on MVDC hybrid circuit breakers, and PI on an ARPA-E CABLES project on MVDC superconducting momentary circuit interrupters. He recently co-edited a book on Direct Current Fault protection (Springer 2023). He is a recipient of the 2023 IEEE Power Electronic Society (PELS) Technical Achievement Award for Integration and Miniaturization of Switching Power Converters, the 2012 IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award, and the 2020 Illinois Institute of Technology Senior Faculty Sigma Xi Research Award. He has served IEEE PELS in various capacities including Vice President of Products, AdCom member, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturers Program, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, Guest Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He has been on the organizing or technical program committee of over 30 international conferences in the field and served as the General Chair of the 2016 Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE2016) and the 2018 International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & IC’s (ISPSD2018). He is a Fellow of IEEE and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.
S07 - DC Fault Protection: Current Status, Fundamental Challenges, and Future Outlook
Sunday, February 25, 2024
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM PST