Renato Amorim Torres
Assistant Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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SEC C290BB
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402-472-3771 On-campus 2-3771
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rtorres10@unl.edu
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Renato Amorim Torres joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) as an assistant professor in August 2026. Before joining UNL he was a Senior Researcher in Electric Machines and Drive Systems at General Motors Research and Development. Renato Amorim Torres received the B.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2016, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, in 2020 and 2022, respectively, all in electrical engineering. During his M.S. and Ph.D. studies, he was a Research Assistant with the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC).
Education
Education
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2022
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2020
- B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2016
Research interests
- High-performance electric drives
- High-speed and advanced control strategies
- Physically and functionally integrated motor drives
- Power electronics and wide-bandgap converters
- Actuators, integrated drive systems and intelligent control
- Electric machine design
- High-efficiency and high-power-density energy conversion systems
- Application areas: aerospace electrification, electrified transportation, drones and eVTOL aircraft, robotics, industrial automation and renewable-energy systems
Courses Taught
- ECEN 304 – Signal and Systems I
Fall 2026 (currently teaching)
Honors and Awards
- 1st Place Lloyd Reuss Award from General Motors, 2025
- Critical Technical Talent Award from General Motors, 2023
- Power Engineering Award from the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2022
- Third Place in the Student Demonstration Hardware Competition at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo, 2021
- Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo, 2020
- One-year exchange program scholarship from the Brazilian government to study in US, CAPES Science without borders, 2013