Vassilios G. Agelidis is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, Copenhagen. He previously held the same position at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 [1] for contributions to power electronics, renewable energy conversion and integration with electricity grid. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. [2]
Jun-ichi Nishizawa was a Japanese engineer and inventor. He is known for his electronic inventions since the 1950s, including the PIN diode, static induction transistor, static induction thyristor, SIT/SITh. His inventions contributed to the development of internet technology and the information age.
Petar V. Kokotovic is professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control especially the backstepping stabilization method.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala is an Indian academic and innovator. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and PhD from the University of Maine. He has been a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras since 1981. He is the President of IIT Madras Research Park and Chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. During his career, he has contributed extensively to technology innovation and adoption in the Indian context.
Payam Heydari is an Iranian-American Professor who is noted for his contribution to the field of radio-frequency and millimeter-wave integrated circuits.
Frede Blaabjerg is a Danish professor at Aalborg University. At Aalborg, he works in the section of Power Electronic Systems of the department of Energy Technology. Blaabjerg's research concerns the applications of power electronics, including adjustable-speed drives, microgrids, photovoltaic systems, and wind turbines. By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of several IEEE journals: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.
Mangalore Anantha Pai was an Indian electrical engineer, academic and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. A former professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, he is known for his contributions in the fields of power stability, power grids, large scale power system analysis, system security and optimal control of nuclear reactors and he has published 8 books and several articles. Pai is the first India born scientist to be awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Soumitro Banerjee is an Indian electrical engineer and director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is known for his studies on bifurcation phenomena in power electronic circuits and is an elected fellow of all three major Indian science academies: the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, West Bengal Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2003.
Alberto Borghetti is an Italian electrical engineer and a professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" of the University of Bologna, Italy. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to modeling of power distribution systems under transient conditions.
Francisco de León from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York. was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to transformer modeling for electromagnetic transient studies.
Manimaran Govindarasu is a Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Iowa State University. He holds B.E. in computer science and engineering from Bharathidasan University (1989), an MTech in computer technology from the Indian Institutes of Technology (1993), and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institutes of Technology (1998). He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to security of power grids.
Josep M. Guerrero is a professor at AAU Faculty of Engineering and Science and at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to distributed power systems and microgrids.
Paolo Mattavelli from the University of Padua, Italy was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to power converters for grid-connected applications and power management.
Khai D. T. Ngo is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for his contributions to the unified synthesis and modeling of switched-mode converters.
Rajeev Thottappillil is a Professor in Electric Power Engineering and Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to the understanding of lightning and electromagnetic interference.
Kiyoharu Aizawa is a full professor at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering of the University of Tokyo. He was named a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (2012) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to model-based coding and multimedia life logging.
Xinbo Ruan is from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to switching-mode power converter topologies and modulation strategies.
Ambrish Chandra is an electrical engineer at the Ecole de Technologie Superiere in Montreal, Quebec. Chandra was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for his contributions to power distribution and renewable energy systems.
Marco Liserre is a University Professor in electrical engineering currently Head of the Chair of Power Electronics at the University of Kiel in Kiel, Germany. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013. He is Deputy Director of Fraunhofer ISIT and Founder of ISIT@CAU, 2022. Prof. Liserre is also honored with the prestigious IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award for the year 2023.
Mark Dehong Xu is a Professor and Director of Power Electronics Institute at the National Engineering Research Center of Applied Power Electronics in Zhejiang University, China.
Jonathan P. How is a Canadian-American astrophysicist and aeronautical engineer currently the Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on technology systems engineering and space engineering.