Namwon Kim

Bio

Namwon Kim (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA, in 2022. He is currently an R&D Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interests include design and control of power electronic converters in the applications of renewable energy, energy storage, and EV chargers.

Awards

• IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy Outstanding Reviewers 2024
• IEEE IAS TSC Best Paper Award, 2024 ECCE Prize Paper Awards, First Prize, “Improving EV Charging Resilience under a Device Fault Condition,”
• IEEE APEC 2021 Best Presentation Award, “Preventing Voltage Divergence in Series-Stacked Bidirectional Battery Energy Storage DC-DC Converter under Asymmetrical Operating Conditions“

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, May 2022
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Changwon National University, South Korea, Feb. 2012
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Changwon National University, South Korea, Feb. 2010

Publications