Spencer Cochran is a research and development associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute Fellow, working with the institute’s Energy Storage and Transportation Convergent Research Initiative. 

His research interests include high switching frequency converter design, wireless power transfer, and control modeling. His graduate work focused on wireless power transfer at both 150 kHz and 6.78 MHz, which included power stage design, system tuning, distortion reduction and dual-loop control design.

While attending UT, Cochran completed the Wide Bandgap Traineeship and received an award for exemplary research in 2020. He was a Robert E. Bodenheimer Fellow during his master’s work and a Tennessee Fellow for Graduate Excellence during his tenure as a doctoral student.

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