CEME People

Philip Krein
(PhD 1982, UIUC)
krein@uiuc.edu

Director of the Center and Grainger Endowed Director’s Chair Professor. His research interests include dynamic performance, control, and design of high-performance electric machines and large-signal analysis and control of power electronic systems.

Patrick Chapman
(PhD 2000, Purdue University)
plchapma@uiuc.edu

The Associate Director of the Center and a Grainger Associate. His main interests include electric machines and drives, power electronics, and power integrated circuits.

Joseph Bentsman
(PhD 1984, Illinois Institute of Technology)
jbentsma@uiuc.edu

From the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering collaborates with the CEME on nonlinear control approaches for electromechanics. He has additional interests in distributed-parameter systems and nonlinear oscillations.

Kyekyoon (Kevin) Kim
(PhD 1971, Cornell University)
kevinkim@uiuc.edu

Director of the Thin Film and Charged Particle Research Laboratory. He collaborates with the CEME in the fabrication of gallium nitride-based power devices.

Jonathan Kimball
(MSEE 1996, University of Illinois)

CEME’s research engineer. He has industrial experience in power electronics and motors. He advised the Future Energy Challenge student team, manages the labs, and assists with student projects. Also a PhD student, his research interests include drives, control, and other energy-conversion areas.

Thomas Overbye
(PhD 1991, University of Wisconsin–Madison)
overbye@uiuc.edu

A Grainger Associate and works in the area of power system operations and simulation. He is interested in visualization tools for all aspects of electric power and is developing visualization tools that illustrate dynamic magnetic fields in motors.

Peter Sauer
(PhD 1977, Purdue University)
psauer@uiuc.edu

Professor Sauer is a Grainger Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include all aspects of electric machines and their interactions in power systems.