Education
09/1997 ~ 05/2001 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
03/1990 ~ 08/1997 B.E. & M.E. in Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
08/2017 Diagnostics Achievement Award, IEEE SDEMPED
- For outstanding sustained technical contributions to the technical areas of condition monitoring and diagnostics of electric machines, power electronics, and drives
10/2026 Third Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Noninvasive Quality Assurance Testing for Magnetization Defects in Surface PM Synchronous Machines,” Nov./Dec. 2026 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
08/2025 SDEMPED First Best Paper Award, SDEMPED Int.`l Steering Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society
- “Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR)-Embedded Identification of Field Winding, Damper Bar, and Eccentricity Faults in Wound Field Synchronous Machines,” Nov./Dec. 2026 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
08/2025 SDEMPED Second Best Paper Award, SDEMPED Int.`l Steering Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society
- “Evaluation of the Applicability of Frequency Response Analysis to Rotating Electric Machines,” Sept./Oct. 2026 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
10/2023 Third Prize Paper Award, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversions Systems Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Automated Identification of Failures in Doubly-Fed Induction Generators for Wind Turbine Applications,” July/Aug. 2023 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
10/2021 First Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Flux-based detection and classification of induction motor eccentricity, rotor cage, and load defects,” May/June 2021 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
10/2020 First Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Airgap flux-based detection and classification of damper bar and field winding faults in salient pole synchronous motors,” July/Aug. 2020 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
08/2019 SDEMPED Prize Paper Award, SDEMPED Int.`l Steering Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society
- “Electrical monitoring of damper bar condition in salient-pole synchronous motors without motor disassembly,” Mar./Apr. 2020 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
09/2017 First Prize Paper Award, Industrial Drives Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Permanent magnet temperature estimation in PM synchronous motors using low-cost hall effect sensors,”, Sept./Oct. 2017 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
08/2017 SDEMPED Prize Paper Award, SDEMPED Int.`l Steering Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society
- “Experience with stator insulation testing and turn/phase insulation failures in the power generation industry,” May/June 2018 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
10/2015 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Prize Paper Award (Honorable Mention), IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Detection of stator slot magnetic wedge failures for induction motors without disassembly” Sept./Oct. 2014 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
06/2015 First Place Technical Paper Award, Pulp and Paper Industry Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Identification of false rotor fault indications produced by on-line MCSA for medium voltage induction machines,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Jan./Feb. 2016 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
09/2014 Second Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Detection of induction motor rotor faults under the rotor axial air duct influence,” Sept./Oct. 2014 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
06/2014 Second Place Technical Paper Award, Pulp and Paper Industry Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Experimental evaluation of low voltage off-line testing for induction motor rotor fault diagnostics,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Mar./Apr. 2015 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
08/2013 SDEMPED Prize Paper Award, SDEMPED Int.`l Steering Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society
- “Detection of stator slot magnetic wedge failures for induction motors without disassembly” Sept./Oct. 2014 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
09/2012 First Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “Detection and Classification of Rotor Demagnetization and Eccentricity Faults for PM Synchronous Motors,” May 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
09/2011 SDEMPED Prize Paper Award, SDEMPED Int.`l Steering Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society
- “Detection of Broken Outer Cage Bars for Double Cage Induction Motors under the Startup Transient” Nov./Dec 2012 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
10/2009 Second Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “A Stator Core Quality Assessment Technique for Inverter-fed Induction Machines,” Jan./Feb. 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
10/2009 Second Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “A Stator Core Quality Assessment Technique for Inverter-fed Induction Machines,” Jan./Feb. 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
09/2009 SDEMPED Prize Paper Award, TC on Diagnostics, IEEE Power Electronics Society
- “A New Strategy for Condition Monitoring of Adjustable Speed Induction Machine Drive Systems”, Feb. 2011 issue of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
10/2006 First Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “An On-line Groundwall and Phase-to-Phase Insulation Quality Assessment Technique for AC Machine Stator Windings”, July/Aug. 2006 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
06/2005 IEEE PES Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society
- “A New Method for Synchronous Generator Core Quality Evaluation”, Sept. 2004 issue of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
10/2002 Second Prize Paper Award, Electric Machines Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society
- “An On-Line Stator Winding Resistance Estimation Technique for Temperature Monitoring of Line-connected Induction Machines”, May/June 2003 issue of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications