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Daniel H. Zhou

Daniel H. Zhou is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University joining in February 2027. He received his BASc in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2019 and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Princeton University in 2025. Dr. Zhou was appointed as a postdoctoral research associate and co-instructor at Princeton in 2026, then joined MKS Instruments as a Senior Electronics Engineer in June 2026. His research focuses on the modeling, theory, and design of high-frequency, energy-efficient power electronics for computing, communication, and energy systems. 

Dr. Zhou received the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) John G. Kassakian Fellowship in 2023, the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship in 2021, and the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Honorific Fellowship in 2023. He was a recipient of a Best Poster award at the 2026 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling in Power Electronics (COMPEL), Outstanding Presentation award at the 2025 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), and Best Paper award at the 2023 IEEE Symposium on 3D Power Electronics Integration & Manufacturing (3D-PEIM). He received the Best Student Presentation at the Nokia Bell Labs Centennial in 2025.