Jason Poon

Welcome! I am an assistant professor in EE at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. My research focus is power electronics—specifically, envisioning how power electronics can enable a clean and sustainable future with more renewable energy and electric vehicles. Towards this end, my research draws from a variety of domains—including computing, control, and optimization—with the broad aim of realizing power and energy systems that are more intelligent, efficient, and multifunctional.

Bio

Jason Poon is an 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 include power electronics and their applications in next-generation power and energy systems, including renewable energy integration, miniaturized and on-chip power, and electrified transportation. 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 for his work on distributed fault-tolerant 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

11/22/2023

Our 1-year, $50k NSF project 'I-Corps: Hardware Accelerators for Real-Time Decision Making at the Edge' has been selected for funding!

8/21/2023

Prof. 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!

7/25/2023

Our 3-year, $496k collaborative NSF project with Prof. Sairaj Dhople at the University of Minnesota, 'Electronic Analog & Hybrid Computing for Power & Energy Systems', has been selected for funding! (Cal Poly, UMN)

6/22/2023

Our collaborator, Dr. Palak Jain, has been selected as a Cohort 2023 Activate Fellow in Activate Berkeley Community at Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road. The two-year fellowship will support Dr. Jain as she works to commercialize our group's research in analog computing.

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