integrated Power Electronics and Energy-Efficient Systems Lab

Latest News

• 06/2025 – Eamon is awarded the Best Undergraduate Student Research Award of the UCSD ECE Department for his speedy, important, and significant contributions to the heterogeneously integrated converter for high-performance power delivery, led by Saket! The chip will be tested by the end of the year.
  • Congratulations, Eamon! Very well-deserved!
• 05/2025 – Woojoong’s paper, entitled “A Reconfigurable Multi-Level AC-DC/DC-DC Ocean Energy Harvester IC Achieving 77.7% End-to-End Power Efficiency for Triboelectric Nanogenerators” is accepted to the
  • This is a successful result of Woojoong’s exchange period at the iPower3Es and the collaboration with Prof. Hyung-Min Lee from the BASIC Lab of Korea University.
  • Congratulations to the Team!
• 04/2025 – Po-Han delivered a fantastic presentation of our brain stimulator work at the 2025 CICC in Boston. See our photos!
• 04/2025 – Raf and Yu-Han, two straight-As students, join the group to research on advanced power converter and IC design. Welcome, Raf and Yu-Han!
• 02/2025 – We brought the full Ph.D. student group to ISSCC 2025 and had a great time (see our photos), including:
  • Hieu’s paper presentation at the Ubiquitous Power Delivery session.
  • A fantastic pre-ISSCC party and a pin-ball championship tournament at John and Johanna’s house (Casey’s good friends). Casey was the champion after 3 rounds.
  • Hangout with other friends and colleagues.

Welcome to iPower3Es

Research Mission

Our research mission is to address challenges in co-optimizing efficiency and size with performance in different electronic systems and applications, including:

• High-performance computing and data centers
• Mobile and automotive devices
• Robots: futuristic ones
• Communication systems
• DC-houses and DC-buildings
• Low-power biomedical implants
• Internet of Things (IoTs)

Team

We are always looking for good team members. Outstanding and self-motivated students interested in joining the iPower3Es group are recommended to contact Prof. Le directly.

Our team combines individuals who love what we are doing for future energy-efficient electronics systems. We strongly support diversity in our group, department, and school where creativity is fostered together with a strong work ethic. And also very importantly, we have fun.