Jih-Sheng (Jason) Lai
Office:106 Plantation Road
Mailing Address:302 Whittemore (0111)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-4741 (540) 231-3362 laijs@vt.edu
Title:James S. Tucker Professor
Affiliated Research Group:
Education:
Ph.D., University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1989M.S., University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1985B.S., National Taiwan Norman University, 1975
Teaching Interests:
Power electronics
Research Interests:
High-power converters for utility applications
Grants and Projects:
- DC Fast Charger, sponsored by Princeton Power.
- PM Motor Drive Control Development, sponsored by Industrial Technology Research Institute
- Wind Generation Control for Smart Grid, sponsored by Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
- Photovoltaic Inverter Development, sponsored by Virginia CIT
- Field Verification of High-Penetration Levels of PV into the Distribution Grid, Sponsored by DOE HiPen PV Program
Selected Publications:
- Title: A Three-Phase Current Reconstruction Strategy With Online Current Offset Compensation Using a Single Current SensorAuthor(s): Y. Cho, T. LaBella, and J.-S. Lai,Journal: IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 2924-2933, July, 2012
- Title: A Novel Valley-Fill SEPIC-derived Power Supply without Electrolytic Capacitor for LED Lighting ApplicationAuthor(s): H. Ma, J.-S. Lai, Q. Feng, W. Yu, C. Zheng, and Z. ZhaoJournal: IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 3057-3071, June, 2012
- Title: A 55kW Three-Phase Inverter Based on Hybrid-Switch Soft-Switching Modules for High Temperature Hybrid Electric Vehicle Drives ApplicationAuthor(s): P. Sun, J.-S. Lai, C. Liu, and W. YuJournal: IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, 962&emdash969, May, 2012
- Title: Grid-Tie Control of Cascade Dual-Buck Inverter with Wide-Range Power Flow Capability for Renewable Energy ApplicationsAuthor(s): P. Sun, J.-S. Lai, C. Liu, and C.-L. ChenJournal: IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 1839 &emdash 1849, April, 2012
- Title: Derivation of Boost-Buck Converter Based High-Efficiency Robust PV InverterAuthor(s): Z. Zhao, M. Xu, Q. Chen, Y. Cho, and J.-S. LaiJournal: IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 1304 &emdash 1313, March, 2012
- Title: An Active Current Reconstruction and Balancing Strategy with DC Link Current Sensing for a Multi-Phase Coupled-Inductor ConverterAuthor(s): Y. Cho, A. Koran, H. Miwa, B. York, and J.-S. LaiJournal: IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 1697-1705, April, 2012
- Title: Cascade Dual Buck Inverter with Phase-Shift ControlAuthor(s): P. Sun, C. Liu, J.-S. Lai, and C.-L. ChenJournal: IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 2067 &emdash 2077, April, 2012
- Title: Three-Phase Dual-Buck Inverter with Unified Pulse Width ModulationAuthor(s): P. Sun, C. Liu, J.-S. Lai, C.-L. Chen, and N. KeesJournal: IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 1159 &emdash 1167, March, 2012
- Title: High Efficiency DC-DC Converter with Twin-Bus for Dimmable LED LightingAuthor(s): W. Yu, J.-S. Lai, G. Lisi, H. Ma and C. ZhengJournal: IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 2095-2100, August, 2011
- Title: Cascade dual-boost/buck active-front-end converter for intelligent universal transformerAuthor(s): C. Liu, P. Sun, J.-S. Lai, Y. Ji, M. Wang, C.-L. Chen, G, CaiJournal: IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 4671&emdash4680, December, 2012
