Associate Professor, Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Alex Hanson is an Associate Professor and holds the Chevron Centennial Fellowship in Engineering (No. 1) in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2019. His research interests include power magnetics and modular power conversion. Dr. Hanson has received the NSF CAREER award, the AFOSR Young Investigator award, the William Portnoy Best Paper award, and the Gordon T Lepley excellence in teaching award. Dr. Hanson also leads the university-wide Texas Initiative for Datacenter Energy and large Loads (TEX-DEL), which covers the entire large load energy journey including generation, grid connection, conversion, storage, consumption, and thermal management.