Jason Poon
Jason Poon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2015 and 2019, respectively, and the B.S. degree in ECE from Olin College of Engineering in 2012. He was a postdoc in the EE Department at Stanford from 2019 to 2021. His research interests span the domains of power electronics, computing, and optimization. Dr. Poon is the recipient of the 2019 EERE Postdoctoral Research Award and the Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics. Prior to joining Cal Poly, Dr. Poon was a Visiting Scholar and Instructor in the EE Department at Stanford and an affiliate researcher in the Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
News
7/23/2024Our group's latest work on hybrid computing for optimization has been published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. This work has been a collaborative effort with Kamlesh Sawant and Sairaj Dhople from the University of Minnesota.
12/6/2023Prof. Poon is selected as a recipient of the Richard and Julie Hood Endowed Assistant Professorship in Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly for the 2023-24 academic year.
11/22/2023Our 1-year, $50k NSF project 'I-Corps: Hardware Accelerators for Real-Time Decision Making at the Edge' has been selected for funding!
8/21/2023Prof. Poon is a subawardee on a 2-year, $11MM project awarded to the Center for Microgrid Research from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)! The project will investigate microgrid reliability and resilience. We are looking forward to our new collaboration with PI Prof. Mahmoud Kabalan and the rest of the team!