{"id":377,"date":"2023-09-20T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/?post_type=team&#038;p=377"},"modified":"2023-09-20T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:24:15","slug":"stephen-paul","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/team\/stephen-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen is a Raleigh native, born and raised 15-20 minutes north of North Carolina State University, so it\u2019s no surprise that NC State is where he ended up for his undergraduate degree.\u00a0 After obtaining a dual B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State, Stephen returned to NC State as a Ph.D. Student, working as a research assistant for the FREEDM Systems Center under Dr. Zeljko Pantic.\u00a0 Stephen\u2019s current research interests include Wireless Power Transfer, Power Electronics, Machine Learning, and Sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As an undergraduate, Stephen participated in research with the FREEDM Center on campus and interned at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory a few times.\u00a0 His research projects involved the design of power electronics components and simulation of power systems technology.\u00a0 From work experience, courses since high school, and personal interest, Stephen developed proficiency in a variety of programming languages and techniques, but he looks to expand his understanding of theory and hardware during his Ph.D.\u00a0 Under Dr. Pantic, Stephen has been leading projects related to quadcopter autonomous charging and energy analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When there is time outside of research, Stephen likes to play Table Tennis competitively and Badminton recreationally.\u00a0 Stephen also enjoys cooking, chess, biking, watching movies, gaming, and programming his own games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stephen-paul-87ab58164\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/linkedin-logo-copy-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"31\" height=\"31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/linkedin-logo-copy-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/linkedin-logo-copy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/linkedin-logo-copy-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/linkedin-logo-copy-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/linkedin-logo-copy.png 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 31px) 100vw, 31px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:smpaul@ncsu.edu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/gmail-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/gmail-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/gmail.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 42px) 100vw, 42px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":378,"menu_order":5,"template":"","team_designation":[5],"team_department":[],"class_list":["post-377","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_designation-ph-d-student"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/relacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}