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2022 Awards and Honors
National and International Honors
- Richard Zhang
Appointed the Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelly Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech Board of Visitors
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Faculty Fellow, 2021 College of Engineering Deans Awards for Excellence
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Outstanding Assistant Professor, 2021 College of Engineering Dean's Awards for Excellence
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Technical Co-Chair, 2021 FERC EnVision Forum, April 26-27
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CAREER Award, Nitride FinFET on Silicon for Medium-Voltage Monolithically Integrated Power Electronics, National Science Foundation
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Conference General Chair, IEEE International Conference on DC Microgrids, July 18-21 - Dong Dong and Yuhao Zhang
Special Session Co-Chairs, Medium- and High-Voltage Gallium Nitride Power Devices, Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE), October 10-14 - Dushan Boroyevich
Advisory Board, Journal of Power Electronics, The Korean Institute of Power Electronics, November 8-10 - Dushan Boroyevich
Co-Author, Building Blocks for Microgrids, Microgrid R&D Program Strategy, Office of Electricity, Department of Energy, USA - Dushan Boroyevich
Co-Design Advisory Board, Ultra Materials for a Resilient, Smart Electricity Grid (ULTRA), DoE Energy Frontier Research Center, Arizona State University, USA - Dushan Boroyevich
Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, China Machinery Industry Information Institute - Dushan Boroyevich
Inaugural Advisory Board, iEnergy journal, Tsinghua University Press, China - Dushan Boroyevich
Session Chairman, Converter Modeling, Design and Low-Level Control, 23rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE'21 ECCE Europe, September 6-10 - Dushan Boroyevich
Steering Committee, 2021 6th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID), November 8-10 - Richard Zhang
IEEE Fellow Evaluation Technical Committee, Power Electronics Society - Richard Zhang
Steering Committee and Session Chair, 2021 FERC EnVision Forum, April 26-27 - Richard Zhang
Technical Program Chair, 2021 6th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID), November 8-10
Prize Paper Awards
- Rolando Burgos, Dushan Boroyevich, Jinjun Liu, Zeng Liu, shike wang
2020 First Place Prize Paper Award, Small-Signal Modeling and Stability Prediction of Parallel Droop-Controlled Inverters Based on Terminal Characteristics of Individual Inverters, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, pp. 1045 - 1063
Paper/Presentation/Award - Khai Ngo, Avinash Joshi, Santanu Mishra, Ramanuja Panigrahi
2020 First Place Prize Paper Award, DC-DC Converter Synthesis: An Inverse Problem, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 35, Issue 12, pp. 12633-12638
Paper/Presentation/Award - Dushan Boroyevich, Rolando Burgos, Jun Wang, Vladimir Mitrovic, Slavko Mocevic
Best Paper Award, Gate-Driver Integrated Junction Temperature Estimation of SiC MOSFET Modules, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Vol 10, Issue 5, pp. 4965 - 4980
Paper/Presentation/Award - Yuhao Zhang, Han Wang, Yu Cao, Edward Beam, Andy Xie, Kai Cheng, Yunwei Ma, Ming Xiao
Technical Tipsheet Award, Multi-Channel Monolithic-Cascode HEMT (MC2-HEMT): A New GaN Power Switch up to 10 kV, 2021 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)
Paper/Presentation/Award - Rolando Burgos, Dong Dong, Lakshmi Ravi, Xiang Lin
William M. Portnoy Award, Hybrid Voltage Balancing Approach for Series-Connected 10 kV SiC MOSFETs for DC-AC Medium-Voltage Power Conversion , ECCE 2020, pp. 3769-3775
Paper/Presentation/Award - Marko Jaksic, Dushan Boroyevich, Rolando Burgos, Jun Wang, Slavko Mocevic
William M. Portnoy Award, Gate-Driver Integrated Junction Temperature Estimation of SiC MOSFET Modules, ECCE 2020, pp. 3761-3768
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Student Awards and Achievements
- Joseph Kozak
2nd Prize, Virginia Tech Engineering Ph.D. Poster Presentation Torgersen Award, Hard Switched Robustness of Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductor Devices
Paper/Presentation/Award - Joseph Kozak
IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award, Hard Switched Robustness of Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductor Devices
Paper/Presentation/Award - Rolando Burgos, Dong Dong, Jian Liu
Technical Lecture Best Presentation Award Winner, High Power Density Design of Power Electronic Interrupter in Hybrid DC Circuit Breaker, APEC 2021
Paper/Presentation/Award - Qiang Li, Pranav Prakash, Rimon Gadelrab, Ahmed Nabih
Technical Lecture Best Presentation Award Winner, High Power Density 1 MHz 3 kW 400 V-48 V LLC Converter for Datacenters with improved Core Loss and Termination Loss, APEC 2021, pp. 304-309
Paper/Presentation/Award - Yuhao Zhang, Qiang Li, Jingcun Liu, Joseph P. Kozak, Ruizhe Zhang, Qihao Song
Technical Lecture Best Presentation Award Winner, Robustness of Cascode GaN HEMTs under Repetitive Overvoltage and Surge Energy Stresses , APEC 2021, pp. NA
Paper/Presentation/Award - Rolando Burgos, Dong Dong, Ning Yan, Minh Ngo, Yuliang Cao
Technical Lecture Best Presentation Award Winner, Design and Implementation of High-density Isolated Bi-directional Soft-switching Resonant DC-DC Converter with Partial Power Processing, APEC 2021
Paper/Presentation/Award - Rolando Burgos, Dong Dong, Yuliang Cao, Minh Ngo
Technical Lecture Best Presentation Award Winner, Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis and Design of an Air Duct Cooling System for 18 kW, 500 kHz Planar Transformers , APEC 2021
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