Shuntaro Inoue is an R&D staff member in Power Electronics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute Fellow, working with the institute’s Transportation Convergent Research Initiative.  

Inoue focuses on advanced power electronics and wireless power transfer for transportation electrification and grid integration. His research interests include high-power-density converters, wireless power transfer and the application of neural networks to power electronics design and optimization. He has published more than 15 peer-reviewed papers, holds over ten U.S. patents and his work has been cited more than 200 times. 

From 2013 to 2025, Inoue was with Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Nagakute, Japan, where he developed high-power-density DC-DC and AC-DC converters and initiated research on dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) systems. 

Inoue has received several awards, including the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Kansai-Branch Best Presentation Award (2011), the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) Best Presentation Award (2016), the IEEJ Encouraging Prize Award (2017), the IEEE APEC Outstanding Presentation Award (2019), the IEEJ Distinguished Paper Award (2020), and the IEEJ Technical Development Award (2021).

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