{"637260":{"#nid":"637260","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Graber Appointed as Sutterfield Family Early Career Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELukas Graber has been appointed to the Sutterfield Family Early Career Professorship,\u0026nbsp;effective July 1, 2020.\u0026nbsp;He is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGraber joined the ECE faculty in August 2015 after working at the Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University, initially as a postdoctoral research associate and then as a research faculty member. He is a member of the electrical energy technical interest group and leads the Plasma and Dielectrics Laboratory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGraber currently advises six Ph.D. students and has graduated three Ph.D. students at Florida State and Georgia Tech. He and his students conduct research in the field of gas, liquid, and solid dielectrics for applications such as aerospace systems, naval systems,\u0026nbsp;and terrestrial transmission and distribution systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGraber has also been very involved in working with undergraduate students, both inside and outside of the classroom. He has advised 12 senior design teams since 2015, that oftentimes have interdisciplinary aspects to their projects. Graber supervised\u0026nbsp;a team from the Opportunity Research Scholars Program with his Ph.D. students, and he also serves as the faculty advisor for both the HyTech Racing Team and the\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech student chapter of the\u0026nbsp;IEEE Power and Energy Society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGraber has published more than 80 refereed journal and conference papers, and he holds eight patents. A senior member of IEEE, Graber contributes to standard committees, task forces, and study committees within IEEE and other similar organizations. His team\u0026rsquo;s work funded by a $3.3 million award from the ARPA-E BREAKERS program for developing DC switchgear technologies received attention in the technical press and can be read on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/626994\/hybrid-breakers-could-make-direct-current-practical-high-power-applications\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s research news page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELukas Graber has been appointed as a Sutterfield Family Early Career Professor,\u0026nbsp;effective July 1, 2020.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lukas Graber has been appointed as a Sutterfield Family Early Career Professor,\u00a0effective July 1, 2020.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2020-07-24 18:50:07","changed_gmt":"2020-09-01 17:36:55","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612483":{"id":"612483","type":"image","title":"Lukas Graber","body":null,"created":"1539029778","gmt_created":"2018-10-08 20:16:18","changed":"1539029778","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 20:16:18","alt":"photograph of Lukas Graber","file":{"fid":"233147","name":"Lukas Graber.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lukas%20Graber.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lukas%20Graber.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":272383,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lukas%20Graber.jpg?itok=aZ84GLEz"}}},"media_ids":["612483"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/lukas-graber","title":"Lukas Graber"},{"url":"https:\/\/graber.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Plasma and Dielectrics Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179312","name":"Lukas Graber"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"179316","name":"Plasma and Dielectrics Laboratory"},{"id":"8784","name":"electrical energy"},{"id":"185379","name":"gas dielectrics"},{"id":"185380","name":"liquid dielectrics"},{"id":"185381","name":"solid dielectrics"},{"id":"185382","name":"aerospace systems"},{"id":"185383","name":"naval systems"},{"id":"185384","name":"terrestrial transmission and distribution systems"},{"id":"178262","name":"Hytech Racing team"},{"id":"185385","name":"Opportunity Scholars Program"},{"id":"24181","name":"IEEE Power and Energy Society"},{"id":"185386","name":"ARPA-E BREAKERS"},{"id":"185387","name":"DC switchgear technologies"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}