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

Associate Professor
University of Houston

Dr. Harish Krishnamoorthy (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston (UH), Texas, USA. He received his B.Tech. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli, India, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, in 2008 and 2015, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, he worked at GE Energy, Hyderabad, India, and received the Lean 6-Sigma Green Belt certification. From 2015 to 2017, he was with Schlumberger, Texas, USA. He also briefly worked at Ford and Google.

Dr. Krishnamoorthy has over 100 conference/journal papers in refereed publications, two granted U.S. patent, and three other U.S. patent applications. He also contributed to a book chapter for the IET. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the Standards Liaison for the IEEE PELS TC7. He is also on the organizing committees of several IEEE conferences such as ECCE-2023, INTELEC-2024, etc. and is the lead organizer for INTELEC-2025. He received the UH College of Engineering’s Research Excellence Award in 2022 and Teaching Excellence Award in 2021. He was named an ‘OTC Emerging Leader’ by the Offshore Technology Conference and an Early Career Research Fellow by the Gulf Research Program of the US National Academies, both in 2022. In 2023, Dr. Krishnamoorthy received the NSF CAREER Award and the IEEE PELS Young Professional Exceptional Service Award. He also recently received the 2023 Young Achiever Award (YAA) from his alma mater, NIT Tiruchirappalli.

His main research interests include high-density power electronics and the reliability/health prediction of GaN/SiC-based converters.

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