Bowen Yang

Bowen Yang

Postdoctoral Researcher
National Laboratory of the Rockies, NLR
Golden, CO, United States

Portrait of Bowen Yang

Power electronics · Control · Power systems

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL). I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Georgia in 2023. My research focuses on the modeling and control of power electronics and converter-dominated power systems, with particular interests in grid-forming inverters, medium-voltage modular power converters, solid-state transformers, solid-state circuit breakers, and cyber-physical security. My work tries to bridge fundamental theoretical analysis with practical implementation and validation, aiming to develop more reliable, resilient, and scalable power electronics technologies for next-generation energy systems.

“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.” -- Theodore von Kármán

Research Interests

  • Current-Limiting Control of Grid-Forming Inverters
  • Stability and Resilience of Heterogeneous Converter Networks
  • Power System Black Start and Restoration with Inverter-Based Resources
  • Decentralized Control of Modular Power Converters
  • Solid-State Protection and Grid-Support Technologies
  • Multi-Domain Modeling of Cyber-Physical Power Electronics Systems
  • Physics-Guided Data-Driven Condition Monitoring

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Ongoing Projects

  • Multi-Vendor Multiterminal HVDC Interoperability-Enhancing Scalable Solid-State Circuit Breaker
  • Universal Ultra-High-Density AC-DC Electrical Power Mover for the Future Intermodal Energy Superhighway (PowerMove)
  • Medium-Voltage Resource Integration Technologies (MERIT)

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Selected Recent Publications

  1. [1]   B. Yang, N. Baeckeland, and G.-S. Seo, “Small-Signal Analysis of Current-Limiting Grid-Forming Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 7661–7677, Sep. 2026, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2026.3655646. DOI
  2. [2]   B. Yang, V. Roy Chowdhury, S. Dutta, S. Tadala, M. Tathode, B. Johnson, L. Corradini, D. Maksimovic, and G.-S. Seo, “Submodule-Level Decentralized Control for Cascaded Quadruple Active Bridge-Based Medium-Voltage Converters,” in 2026 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Mar. 2026, pp. 1297–1304. doi: 10.1109/APEC51134.2026.11516782. DOI
  3. [3]   N. Baeckeland, B. Yang, and G.-S. Seo, “Unified Model of Current-Limiting Grid-Forming Inverters for Large-Signal Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 198–213, Jan. 2026, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2025.3587224. DOI
  4. [4]   B. Yang, D. Chatterjee, B. Johnson, and G.-S. Seo, “Transient Stability Analysis Framework for Grid-Forming Inverter-Dominated Networks Under Large Grid Disturbances,” in 2025 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Oct. 2025, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1109/ECCE58356.2025.11260192. DOI
  5. [5]   N. Baeckeland, B. Yang, and G.-S. Seo, “Transient Stability-Enhancing Method for Grid-Forming Inverters Under Current Limiting,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 6714–6725, May 2025, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2025.3532490. DOI
  6. [6]   B. Yang and G.-S. Seo, “Stability Analysis of Current-Limited Grid-Forming Inverters with Frequency Stabilization: An Equivalent Impedance Approach,” in 2025 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Mar. 2025, pp. 602–608. doi: 10.1109/APEC48143.2025.10977254. DOI
  7. [7]   B. Yang, S. Wu, K. Hu, J. Ye, W. Song, P. Ma, J. Shi, and P. Liu, “Enhanced Cyber-Attack Detection in Intelligent Motor Drives: A Transfer Learning Approach With Convolutional Neural Networks,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 710–719, Apr. 2024, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2023.3346802. DOI

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