Prof. Jessica Boles

Welcome

Power electronics supply, convert, and control electrical energy, and their advancement is critical to both technological progress and energy sustainability. Our team's research spans power electronic circuit topologies, control, and applications, as well as passive component design and fabrication. We are currently exploring a new class of power electronics based on piezoelectric passive components, which are positioned to enable significant advances in the miniaturization, performance, and cost of power electronics in a wide variety of applications. Our work is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on expertise in power, circuits, control, acoustics, MEMS, packaging, and more.

News

March 2025: Sourav Naval receives a Best Presentation Award at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) for his talk on "High-efficiency isolated piezoelectric transformers for magnetic-less dc-dc power conversion"

August 2024: "A piezoelectric-resonator-based dc-dc converter demonstrating 1 kW/cm^3 resonator power density" receives an IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Prize Letter Award

July 2024: Our group receives the ARPA-E IGNIITE Award

February 2024: Profs. Jessica Boles and Robert Pilawa-Podgurski launch the Berkeley Power and Energy Center (BPEC) 

January 2024: Profs. Jessica Boles and Robert Pilawa-Podgurski launch UC Berkeley EECS's new power and energy curriculum

October 2023: Prof. Jessica Boles receives the IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk (P3 Talk) Award

August 2023: Tucker Skinner receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Berkeley Fellowship

May 2023: Profs. Jessica Boles and Robert Pilawa-Podgurski selected as UC Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellows

January 2023: Prof. Jessica Boles joins the UC Berkeley EECS Department