Jonathan Kimball began his career in industry at Motorola, designing IGBT modules, and Baldor Electric, designing industrial motor drives. He co-founded SmartSpark Energy Systems to commercialize technology from the University of Illinois. He joined the faculty at Missouri S&T in 2008. From 2019 to 2022, he was the director of the Center for Research in Energy and the Environment. Since 2022, he has been the chair of the ECE department..

Selected Publications

• K. J. P. Veeramraju, J. A. Mueller, and J. W. Kimball, “An Extended Generalized Average Modeling Framework for Power Converters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 9581–9592, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3276631.
• A. Sharma and J. W. Kimball, "Hybrid model to evaluate the frequency-dependent leakage inductance of partially-filled transformers," Power Electronic Devices and Components, vol. 5, p. 100038, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.pedc.2023.100038
• J. A. Mueller and J. W. Kimball, “Modeling and Analysis of DC Microgrids as Stochastic Hybrid Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 9623–9636, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2021.3055456.
• V. R. Chowdhury and J. W. Kimball, “Virtual charge-based synchronisation and feedback linearisation-based current control of a three-phase grid-connected inverter without grid voltage sensors,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 13, no. 15, pp. 3496–3504, 2020, doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2020.0145.
• Md. Rasheduzzaman†, J. A. Mueller†, J. W. Kimball, “Reduced order small-signal model of microgrid systems,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1292–1305, Oct. 2015.
• M. M. Baggu†, B. H. Chowdhury, J. W. Kimball, “Comparison of Advanced Control Techniques for Grid Side Converter of Doubly-Fed Induction Generator Back-to-Back Converters to Improve Power Quality Performance during Unbalanced Voltage Dips,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 3, pp. 516-524, June 2015.
• T. Paul†, J. W. Kimball, M. Zawodniok, T. P. Roth, B. McMillin, S. Chellappan, “Unified invariants for cyber-physical switched system stability,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, pp. 112-120, Jan. 2014.
• L. Müller†, J. W. Kimball, “A dynamic model of switched-capacitor power converters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 29, pp. 1862-1869, April 2014.
• H. Qin†, J. W. Kimball, “Closed-loop control of dc-dc dual active bridge converters driving single-phase inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 29, pp. 1006-1017, Feb. 2014.
• J. M. Henry and J. W. Kimball, "Practical performance analysis of complex switched-capacitor converters," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 26, pp. 127–136, Jan. 2011.

Conference Papers

• L. Müller†, M. Mohammed†, and J. W. Kimball, “Using the Arduino Uno to teach digital control of power electronics,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2015.
• S. Alalwani†, J. W. Kimball, “Optimal sizing of a wind/solar/battery hybrid microgrid system using the ForeverPower method,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Green Technologies Conference, 2015, pp. 29-35.
• T. Paul†, H. Ravindra, M. Steurer, J. W. Kimball, “Voltage stability preserving invariants for smart grids,” in Proc. Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), 2015, pp. 1-6.
• A. Alzahrani†, J. W. Kimball, C. Dagli, “Predicting solar irradiance using time series neural networks,” presented at Complex Adaptive Systems, 2014. Published in Procedia Computer Science, vol. 36, pp. 623-628, Nov. 2014.
• L. Müller†, J. W. Kimball, “Effects of stray inductance on hard-switched switched capacitor converters,” in Proc. Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), 2014.

Selected Honors and Awards

• Dean’s Scholar, awarded Fall 2016 for AY’16 and AY’17.
• Faculty Research Award, Missouri University of Science and Technology, December 2018.
• Faculty Excellence Award, Missouri University of Science and Technology, February 2015.
• Faculty Excellence Award, Missouri University of Science and Technology. Selected in November 2014 and February 2015.
• Missouri Academic Advising Association (MACADA) Outstanding Academic Advisor, Faculty Role, September 2014.