Bio

Jessica Boles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Co-Director of the recently launched Berkeley Power and Energy Center. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering. Her research area is power electronics, and her interests span power electronic components, circuits, control, and applications. She is currently pursuing a new class of power electronics based on piezoelectric passive components to enable major advances in the performance, size, and cost of power conversion for a wide variety of electronic and energy systems.

Boles is currently an ARPA-E IGNIITE Selectee and a UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellow. Her work has been recognized with two IEEE prize paper awards, the IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award, and multiple prize presentation awards. She is a past recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the MIT Collamore-Rogers Fellowship, and the UT Knoxville Bodenheimer Fellowship. She is also a past recipient of the MIT EECS Department Head Special Recognition Award.