Renewable Energy and Power Electronics Laboratory
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DAVID WENZHONG GAO, PHD
Professor • Director of REPE Laboratory |
Office: Room 269, Electrical & Computer Engineering(ECS)
Email: wenzhong.gao@du.edu Tel: 303-871-3570 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Denver |
B.S. – Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
Ph. D. – Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Dr. Gao has published more than one hundred fifty technical papers in international journals and conferences.
He has co-authored a book entitled “Modern Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” published by John Wiley & Sons in United
Kingdom. His research has been funded by many funding agencies and sponsors. In 2009, he won the US National
Science Foundation CAREER award for wind power research. He received the Best Paper Award in the Complex Systems
Track at the 2002 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Jan. 2002. Since June 2003, Dr. Gao
has been a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Dr. Gao currently serves as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, an Associate Editor for
the IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS, and he has been an active
Reviewer of many leading journals and conferences. He currently serves as the Secretary of IEEE Power Electronics Society
Denver Section.He has been active in various technical committees of IEEE societies and conference organizing committees.
He is a member of the Power and Energy Education Committee (PEEC) of IEEE PES (Power and Energy Society). He served
as General Chair to host 2012 IEEE Symposium on Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications (PEMWA) in Denver,
CO, USA. He was a Technical Cochair for IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference, held in Dearborn, MI, USA,
September 7-11, 2009. He was also a Technical Program Cochair in the Organizing Committee of 2013 IEEE GreenTech
Conference held in Denver, April 2013. He will serve as the General Chair to host North American Power Symposium
(NAPS 2016), September 18-20, 2016, Denver, USA. Dr. Gao has been invited to serve on the grant review panel for
many funding agencies including the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.