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Jessica Boles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Power Energy Center. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in electrical engineering. Her research interests focus on power electronic circuit topologies, control, applications, and passive component design and fabrication. Boles' research group is currently exploring new power conversion strategies based on piezoelectric passive components, aiming to achieve significant improvements in performance, size, and cost across various electronic energy systems. She has received numerous accolades, including the ARPA-E IGNIITE Award, NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and NSF CAREER Award. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with multiple IEEE prize paper awards and the IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award. Additionally, Boles has been a past recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, MIT Collamore-Rogers Fellowship, and the Bodenheimer Fellowship at UT Knoxville, among other honors.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.