New Light: Rising Stars in Energy and the Environment is a summer seminar series to spotlight associate research scholars, postdoctoral research fellows, and other early-career researchers affiliated with the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Weekly seminars will feature a diverse selection of researchers working on cutting-edge topics across disciplines seeking to solve society’s most pressing problems in energy and the environment.

Yenan Chen received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2010 and 2018 respectively, both in Electrical Engineering. Since 2018, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. His research interests include high frequency power converters, advanced power electronics architecture, grid-interface power electronics and renewable energy systems. He holds three issued Chinese patents. Chen received the APEC Outstanding Presentation Award in 2019, the First Place Award from the Innovation Forum of Princeton University in 2019, the Best Paper Award in COMPEL 2020, and the the Postdoc Researcher Presentation Award at the 2020 Princeton Andlinger Center Annual Meeting.