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Daniel Costinett

Grainger Professor in Power Electronics
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Daniel Costinett (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2013. He was an instructor at Utah State University in 2013. From 2013-2026, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK); from 2024-2026 he was Full Professor and Associate Department Head. Since 2026, he is the Grainger Professor in Power Electronics with The University of Wisconsin Madison. Dr. Costinett was Co-Director of Education and Diversity for the National Science Foundation/Department of Energy Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT). He has coauthored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include resonant and soft switching power converter design, high efficiency wired and wireless power supplies, on-chip power conversion, medical devices, and electric vehicles.

Dr. Costinett was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2017, the 2022 Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award, the 2016 and 2020 IEEE PELS Transactions Second Place Prize Paper Award, and the 2015 IEEE IAS William M. Portnoy Award. He received the 2022 Moses E. and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor Award, 2015 ECE Faculty of the Year Award, and 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Professional Promise in Research from UTK.

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Electrical & Computer Engineering

Contact

EH 2559A, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI
(He/him)

  • PhD 2013, University of Colorado Boulder
  • BS 2011, University of Colorado Boulder
  • MS 2011, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Resonant and soft switching power converter design
  • High efficiency wired and wireless power supplies
  • On-chip power conversion
  • Medical Devices
  • Electric Vehicles

  • 2023 UTK EECS Gonzalez Family, Award for Outstanding Faculty Research
  • 2022 IEEE PELS, Magazine Most Popular Article
  • 2022 IEEE PELS, Magazine Top Paper
  • 2022 UTK TCoE, Moses E. and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor Award
  • 2022 IEEE PELS, Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award
  • 2020 TCE, Award for Outstanding Faculty Service to the College
  • 2020 UTK, Chancellor’s Award for Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement
  • 2020 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Second Place Prize Paper Award
  • 2017 UTRF, Innovation Driver Award
  • 2017 UTK CoE, Professional Promise in Research Award
  • 2016 Google, Little Box Challenge Finalist
  • 2016 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Outstanding Reviewer Award
  • 2016 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Second Place Prize Paper Award
  • 2016 UTK CoE, Summer Pre-College Service Award
  • 2016 UTK CoE, Teaching Fellow
  • 2015 ECE, Faculty of the Year
  • 2015 EPRI, Outstanding Achievement Award
  • 2015 UTK CoE, Summer Pre-College Service Award
  • 2015 IEEE, William M. Portnoy Award

  • Zhang, Y., Khan, M. S., Costinett, D., Bai, H., Brown, A., Teuber, M., Chis, M., Markovits, A., & Negrea, A. M. (2026). Extended Phase-Shift Modulation for ZVS and RMS Current Minimization for Bidirectional Buck-Boost Integrated LLC EV Auxiliary Power Module. In 2026 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC) & Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS) (ITEC+EATS) (p. 1-7) https://doi.org/10.1109/ITECEATS66641.2026.11592927
  • Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Mukhopadhyay, A., Fan, S., Bai, H., Costinett, D., & Tolbert, L. M. (2025). Crosstalk Mitigation and Switching Speed Enhancement of GaN HEMT with Adaptive Gate Resistance under Wide Temperature Variation. In 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) (p. 1-8) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL57166.2025.11121150
  • Basu, A., & Costinett, D. (2025). Design and Optimization of a 600 W Wireless Drone Charger for High Gravimetric Power Density. In 2025 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) (p. 3253-3260) https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC48143.2025.10977091
  • Mukhopadhyay, A., Basu, A., & Costinett, D. (2025). Double-Frequency Sampling Impact on Dynamic Model of Half-Wave Symmetric Converters. In 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) (p. 1-8) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL57166.2025.11121275
  • Liu, X., Zhang, Y., Jia, N., Mukhopadhyay, A., Costinett, D., Tolbert, L. M., & Bai, H. (2025). Packaging a 650V/400A GaN Half-bridge Power Module with Ultra-low Parasitics for Electric Vehicle Drive Applications. In 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP) (p. 1-5) https://doi.org/10.1109/IWIPP61784.2025.10971623
  • Sohid, S. B., Costinett, D., Gu, G., & Tolbert, L. M. (2025). Physics-Based Multi-Domain Core Loss Modeling of Magnetic Materials via Spherical LLG Approach. In 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) (p. 1-8) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL57166.2025.11121231
  • Basu, A., Mukhopadhyay, A., & Costinett, D. (2025). Practical Design of Synchronization Control for a Wireless Battery Charger. In 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) (p. 1-8) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL57166.2025.11121240
  • Mukhopadhyay, A., & Costinett, D. (2025). Unveiling Aliasing Effect on Resonant Pole Locations in Wireless Battery Chargers. In 2025 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) (p. 3267-3274) https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC48143.2025.10977200
  • Mukhopadhyay, A., & Costinett, D. (2025). Wireless Battery Charger with Reverse Power Flow Blocking and Cell Over-Voltage Protection. In 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) (p. 1-7) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL57166.2025.11121269
  • Chen, M., Li, H., Wang, S., Guillod, T., Serrano, D., Förster, N., Kirchgässner, W., Piepenbrock, T., Schweins, O., Wallscheid, O., Huang, Q., Li, Y., Dou, Y., Li, B., Li, S., Havugimana, E., Chacko, V. T., Radhakrishnan, S., Ranjram, M., Sauter, B., Reese, S., Sinha, S., Zhang, L., McKeague, T., Cui, B., Rasekh, N., Wang, J., Liu, S., Martinez, A., Liu, X., Mei, C., Zhao, R., Wu, G., Wu, H., Zhang, R., Song, H., Zhang, L., Lu, Y., Hang, L., Rajput, N., Sandhibigraha, H. B., Agrawal, N., Iyer, V. M., Shen, X., Tian, F., Sui, Q., Kong, J., Martinez, W., Arruti, A., Alberdi, B., Agote, A., Aizpuru, I., Zhang, M., Chen, X., Dong, Y., Wang, D., Shen, T., Zhou, Y., Li, Y., Wang, S., Wu, Y., Jiang, Y., Xiao, Z., Tang, Y., Hsieh, Y., Li, J., Yu, L., Hsu, T., Liu, Y., Hsia, C., Chen, C., Giuffrida, A., Lombardo, N., Marmello, F., Morra, S., Pasquale, M., Solimene, L., Ragusa, C. S., Reynvaan, J., Stoiber, M., Li, C., Qin, W., Ma, X., Zhang, B., Wang, Z., Cheng, M., Xu, W., Wang, J., Hu, Y., Xu, J., Shi, Z., Sapkota, D. B., Neupane, P., Joshi, M., Khan, S., Su, B., Xiao, Y., Yang, M., Sun, K., Li, Z., Mirzadarani, R., Liu, R., Wang, L., Luo, T., Lyu, D., Niasar, M. G., Qin, Z., Meerza, S. I., Froehle, K., Cui, H., Costinett, D., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Zhan, C., Dang, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, N., Chen, Y., Zhang, Y., Li, C., Yao, Y., Hu, T., Xu, L., Wang, Y., Wang, S., Jiang, S., Shumacher, D., Maksimović, D., Hui, R. S., Kolar, J. W., Perreault, D. J., & Sullivan, C. R. (2025). MagNet Challenge for Data-Driven Power Magnetics Modeling. IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, 6, 883-898 https://doi.org/10.1109/OJPEL.2024.3469916

  • ECE 230 - Circuit Analysis (Fall 2026)