Dr. Peter Chahee Cho has spent his career conducting, managing, and funding world-class R&D to support US Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Naval Research Enterprise. Currently, he serves as the Program Officer to the ONR, Sea Warfare and Weapons Department, Ship Systems & Engineering Division. He is responsible for managing Science and Technology (S&T) in Power Systems and Control, specifically focusing on basic physics-based modeling and simulation, power electronic switching technologies, and electromagnetic technologies as S&T/R&D thrusts – articulating progress as new knowledge gains, scientific findings, new capabilities, operational concepts, and architecture documents. In addition, he is supporting several ONR programs in efficient power conversion, distributed control, power networks, electrical systems, automation, and system integration of ship and subsurface systems (2012-present).

Prior to current assignment, he served as the Director for International Liaison Office, ONRGlobal, one year (2011-2012), and four years as an Associate Director, ONRGlobal Asia Office, Tokyo, Japan, focused on Power & Energy (2007-2011).

He has over 25 years of technical commercial and government experience gained while working at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI; General Motors/Delco Remy Division, Anderson, IN; ETechno-Group, Inc, Carmel, IN; and Wavecrest Laboratories, LLC, Herndon, VA; Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, Philadelphia, PA. Throughout his career, he has managed groups of team member sizes varying from 11 to 43 technical and managerial people.

He has served on numerous international/domestic conference/symposium organizing committees, chairmanships, and technical paper review panels for IEEE, ASME, ASNE, SAE, as well as the ONR /DARPA IPTs. Currently, Dr. Cho serves on the ASNE technical journal paper committee and is on the SAE technical reviewer committee for EV/HEV drive train technology. He was also the technical co-chair for IEEE IES international conferences, 1998 and 2001, and IEMDC conferences 1998, 2000, and 2002. He was the Technical Chair and the Assistant Chair for Electric Machine Technology Symposium from 1998 to 2006. He was a professional development seminar instructor, 1999 - 2008, at the SAE and spoke on training engineers and scientists on the advanced electric motor/generator/actuator and its power electronic controllers.

He was awarded the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees, 1986 & 1987, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, a Ph.D. degree, 1995, in Systems Engineering from the University of New Hampshire, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, 2001, from Anderson University. He has published more than 60 technical articles and holds 29 United States patents, with over 10 patent applications still pending.