Bimal Kumar Bose

Bimal Kumar Bose, known as B. K. Bose, is an electrical engineer and a leading authority on power electronics. Born in Calcutta, now Kolkata, in 1932, he studied at Bengal Engineering College, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Calcutta, moved to the United States in 1971, and worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at General Electric corporate research before joining the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1987, where he held the Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics. He is recognized for work on high frequency link power conversion, microcomputer based control, fuzzy logic and neural network applications, and matrix converters, and he also promoted power electronics applications in environmental protection. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 and received the IEEE Lamme Medal in 1996. He is professor emeritus at the University of Tennessee.