Chuan Shi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering with distinguished honor from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China in 2013. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a Design Engineer with Altera, Inc., Austin, TX, USA, in Summer 2015. He was the recipient of 2016 Harry K. Wells Energy Research Fellowship from the University of Maryland Energy Research Center. His research interests include power electronics, plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles, the applications of wide bandgap semiconductors, renewable energy harvesting, and power management of hybrid energy storage systems.

He enjoys watching soccer and eating hotpot.