Biography

Khurram Afridi is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Caltech (1989), and SM (1992) and PhD (1998) degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. His research interests are in power electronics and energy systems incorporating power electronic controls. Prior to joining Cornell, he was an Assistant Professor and the Goh Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder (2014-2018), a visiting faculty at MIT's EECS Department (2009-2014), and the Chief Operating Officer (2000-2010) and Chief Technology Officer (1997-2000) of Techlogix. From 2004 to 2008 he led the development of LUMS School of Science and Engineering (SSE) as Project Director. He has also worked for JPL, Lutron, Philips, and Schlumberger. He is a guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and was the general chair for the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) 2024, the Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair for the IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies: Wireless Power (WoW) 2021, the TPC co-chair for the IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA) 2018, and the TPC chair for the IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC) 2015. He received the Carnation Merit Award from Caltech (1988), the BMW Scientific Award from BMW AG (1999), the Werner-von-Siemens Chair for Power Electronics from LUMS SSE (2008), the Dean's Professional Progress Award from CU Boulder (2015), the ECEE Department Outstanding Overall Performance Award from CU Boulder (2016), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award from NSF (2016), the Engineering Research Excellence Award from Cornell (2021), and the Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award from Cornell (2023). He is co-author of eight IEEE prize papers.