Director, Energy GRID Institute / Power Program
PITT Co-Director, AMPED
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
PITT Co-Director, AMPED
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Brandon Grainger specializes in electric power conversion, including medium and high voltage power electronics, high power density converter design, wide bandgap devices (silicon carbide and gallium nitride), solid-state transformers, electric vehicle motor drives, and optimized magnetic components. He is a co-architect of Pitt’s Electric Power Engineering program, launched in 2008, and holds all three of his degrees from Pitt, where he was one of the first R.K. Mellon graduate fellows through the Center for Energy. He has published extensively in IEEE, ASEE, and ASNE venues, and is a senior member of the IEEE, a past chair of the IEEE Pittsburgh Power Electronics Society chapter, and was technical program chair of IEEE ECCE 2022.
