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Steven Leeb

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room 10-069

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Energy monitor can find electrical failures before they happen

Energy monitor can find electrical failures before they happen

Sensor can monitor wiring in a building or ship, and signal when repairs are needed.

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What’s wasting power at home? Ask your app!

What’s wasting power at home? Ask your app!

New system from MIT can identify how much power is being used by each device in a household.

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Energy orientation introduces freshmen to low-carbon technologies on campus and in the region

Energy orientation introduces freshmen to low-carbon technologies on campus and in the region

During the energy orientation, freshmen are able to participate in Professor Steven Leeb's direct-current motor lab and other low-carbon technologies.

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Faculty Details

Education

  • 1987

    MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

    B.Sc.

  • 1989

    MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

    M.Sc.

  • 1990

    MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

    M.Eng.

  • 1993

    MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)

    Ph.D.

Research Interests

  • Laboratory Experiments
  • Condition-based Maintenance
  • Field Studies
  • Variable Speed Drives
  • Electric Propulsion
  • Nonintrusive Power Monitoring
  • Sensing
  • Energy conversion applications
  • System Identification for continuous commissioning
  • Building energy management

Honors + Awards

  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award    1996
  • MIT School of Engineering Bose Junior Faculty Teaching Award    1997
  • MIT Harold E. Edgerton Award    1998
  • Technology Review’s TR100 Outstanding Young Innovator    1999
  • IEEE Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer    1999
  • R&D 100 Award    2000
  • Discover Magazine Award Finalist    2000
  • IEEE Senior Member    2001
  • R&D 100 Award    2002
  • Institute Big Screw Award    2002
  • MIT MacVicar Fellow    2004
  • Eta Kappa Nu EECS Undergraduate Teaching Award    2006
  • IEEE Fellow    2007
  • BOSE Faculty Award (SOE)    2013
     

Related Experience

  • United States Air Force Reservist, Aeronautical Systems Division
  • Wright Research and Development Center

Memberships

  • IEEE:
  • Control Systems Society
  • Power Electronics Society
  • Signal Processing Society         
  • American Chemical Society

Professional Service

  • 1998-2012, Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Talking Lights LLC
  • 1993-1996  Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Gel Sciences, Inc.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee, Power Electronics Specialists Conference    1994-2009
  • Session Chair, PESC    1994
  • Member of the Committee on Computers in Power Electronics, IEEE PELS    1993-2000
  • Member of the Technical Committee on Simulation, Modeling, and Control, IEEE PELS    2001-Present
  • Session Chair, PESC    1995
  • Chairman, IEEE PELS Technical Committee on Computers in Power Electronics    1997-2000
  • Member, IEEE PELS Administrative Committee    1997-2004
  • Session Chair, COMPEL98    1998
  • Member, IEEE PELS Nominations Committee    1999-2006
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics    1999-2003
  • Society Treasurer, IEEE Power Electronics Society    1999-2004
  • Program Committee Member, COMPEL 2002    2000-2002
  • Session Chair, COMPEL02    2002
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics    2002
  • Reviewer, Technical Program, International Symposium on Industrial Electronics    2006
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions (various)    1990-Present
  • ECE Montana State University Advisor Commiittee    2007-Present
     

MIT Service

  • Assistant Professor    January 1993-July 1997
  • Carl Richard Soderberg Assistant Professor of Power Engineering    September 1993-July 1997
  • Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering    July 1997-August 1998
  • Associate Professor    July 1997-June 2000
  • Associate Professor with Tenure    July 2000-June 2005
  • Professor    July 2005-Present
  • Joint, Mechanical Engineering    July 2007 -Present
     

Teaching

  • Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670)
  • Microcomputer Project Laboratory (6.115)
  • Power Electronics Laboratory (6.131)

Publications

  • Rodriguez, J.I., S.B. Leeb, “Nonresonant and Resonant Frequency-Selectable Induction-Heating Targets,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Volume 57, No. 9, September 2010, pp. 3095-3108. **
  • Leeb, S., Kirtley, J.L. Wichakool, W., Remscrim, Z., Tidd, C., Goshorn, A., Thomas, K., Cox, R., Chaney, R, “How Much DC Power is Necessary?,” Naval Engineer’s Journal, Volume 122, Issue 2, June 2010 (also online January 2011), pp. 79-92.    
  • Cooley, J., A. Avestruz, S.B. Leeb, “Small-signal analysis of fully-differential closed-loop op-amp circuits with arbitrary external impedance elements," IET Circuits, Devices, & Systems, Vol., 5, Issue 5, 2011, pp. 371-383.  
  • Cooley, J., A. Avestruz, S.B. Leeb, “A Retrofit Capacitive Occupancy Detector  using Fluorescent Lamps,” ,” IEEE IES Transactions, Volume 59, No. 4, April 2012, pp. 1898-1911.
  • Avestruz, A., J. Cooley, D. Vickery, J. Paris, S.B. Leeb, “Dimmable Solid-State Ballast with Integral Capacitive Occupancy Sensor,” IEEE IES Transactions, Volume 59, No. 4, April 2012, pp. 1739-1750.
  • Zhu, T., S.R. Shaw, S.B. Leeb, “Electric Load  Transient Recognition with a Cluster Weighted Modeling Method,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid,” Vol. 4, Issue 4, December 2013, pp. 2182-2190.
  • Cooley, J.J., P.Lindahl, C. Zimmerman, M. Cornachione, G. Jordan, S.R. Shaw, S.B. Leeb, "Multi-converter System Design for Fuel Cell Buffering and Diagnostics under UAV Load Profiles," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,  Vol. 29, No. 6, June 2014, pp. 3232-3244.  
  • Gillman, M., J. Donnal, J. Paris, C. Schantz, U. Orji, S.B. Leeb, M. El-Sayed, K. Wertz, S.Schertz, “Energy Accountability Using Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring,”  IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 14, No. 6, June 2014, pp.1923-1931. **
  • Leeb, S.B., J.L. Kirtley, S. Muller, “Build to Win: Electric Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 29, No. 4, July 2014 pp. 1928-1935.
  • Leeb, S.B., M. Alvira, R.W. Cox, J.J. Cooley, J.L. Kirtley, S.R. Shaw, “Build to Win: Power Electronics,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 29, No. 4, July 2014 pp. 1936-1943.
  • Banerjee, Arijit, M. Tomovich, S. Leeb, J. Kirtley, "Control Architecture for a Switched Doubly-fed Machine Propulsion Drive,"  IEEE Industry Applications Society Transactions,  March 2014 **
  • Paris, J., Z. Remscrim, S.B. Leeb, S.R. Shaw, "The Sinefit Spectral Envelope Preprocessor,", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 14, No. 12, December, 2014, pp. 4385-4394.
  • Banerjee, A., M. Tomovich, S.B. Leeb,  J. Kirtley, “Power Converter Sizing for a Switched Doubly-Fed Machine Propulsion Drive,” ,"  accepted for publication, IEEE Industry Applications Society Transactions, 2014.
  • Paris, J., J. Donnal, S.B. Leeb,  "NilmDB: The Nonintrusive Load Monitor Database,"  accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid,” 2014.
  • Paris, J., J. Donnal, R. Cox, S.B. Leeb,  "Hunting Cyclic Energy Wasters," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid,” Vol. 5, No. 5, September 2014, pp. 2459-2467.
  • Orji, U., B. Sievenpiper, K. Gerhard, S.B. Leeb, N. Doerry, J. Kirtley, and T. McCoy, "Load Modeling for Power System Requirement and Capability Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,” August 2014, pp. 1-9.
  • Chang, A., A. Avestruz, S.B. Leeb, "Capacitor-less Photovoltaic Cell-Level Power Balancing using Diffusion Charge Redistribution,"  IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics," Vol. 30, No. 2, 2015, pp. 537-546.
     

Patents

  • Transient Event Detector for use in Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Systems, U.S. Patent Num¬ber 5,483,153, issued January 9, 1996.
  • Electromagnetically Triggered, Responsive Gel Based Drug Delivery Device, U.S. Patent Num¬ber 5,643,246, issued July 1, 1997.
  • A DC Power Supply Controller, U.S. Patent Number 5,656,923, issued August 12, 1997.
  • Multiprocessing Transient Event Detector for Use in a Nonintrusive Electrical Load Monitoring System, U.S. Patent Number 5,717,325, issued February 10, 1998.
  • Electromagnetically Triggered, Responsive Gel Based Drug Delivery Device, U.S. Patent Num¬ber 5,830,207, issued November 3, 1998.
  • Dual-Use Electronic Transceiver Set for Wireless Data Networks, U.S. Patent Number 6,198,230, issued March 6, 2001.
  • Communications System, U.S. Patent Number 6,400,482, issued June 4, 2002.
  • Dual-Use Electronic Transceiver Set for Wireless Data Networks (CIP), U.S. Patent Number 6,426,599, issued July 20, 2002.
  • Analog and Digital Electronic Receivers for Dual-Use Wireless Data Networks, U.S. Patent 6,504,633, issued January 7, 2003.
  • Non-flickering Illumination Based Communication, U.S. Patent 6,794,831, issued September 21, 2004.
  • Non-visible Communications Systems, U.S. Patent 6,954,591, issued October 11, 2005.
  • Communication with Non-Flickering Illumination, U.S. Patent 7016115, issued March 21, 2006.
  • Smart Cutting Fluids, U.S. Patent 7,060,663, issued June 13, 2006.
  • Working Materials with Smart Cutting Fluids, U.S. Patent 7,776,803, issued Aug. 17, 2010.
  • Fluorescent Lamp with Integral Proximity Sensor for Building Energy Management, U.S. Patent 7,923,936, issued April 12, 2011.
  • Multi-Frequency Dual-Use System, U.S. 8,150,268, issued April 3, 2012.
  • Non-intrusive monitoring of power and other parameters, US 8,344,724, issued January 1, 2013.
  • Multi-Frequency Dual-Use System, U.S. 8,886,053, issued November 11, 2014
  • Non-intrusive Monitoring of Power and Other Parameters, U.S. 8907664,  issued December 2014.