Dushan Boroyevich was born in 1952 in Zagreb, Croatia, in what then used to be Yugoslavia. In the same country, he earned a Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade in 1976 and an M.S. degree from the University of Novi Sad in 1982, both in electrical engineering. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in power electronics in 1986 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, also known as Virginia Tech. In 2023, he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czechia.

Between 1976 and 1982 Dushan was instructor at the Institute for Power and Electronic Engineering of the University of Novi Sad, helping to establish the electronics program. He then joined Virginia Tech for three and a half years for doctoral studies with General Electric Co. Fellowship. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree in 1986, he returned to the University of Novi Sad as an assistant professor, where he founded the power and industrial electronics research and education programs.

In 1990, Dr. Boroyevich joined the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, as associate professor, and in 1996 became associate director of Virginia Power Electronics Center that was founded by Prof. Fred Lee ten years earlier. In 1998, Fred and Dushan led the team of faculty from Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, and North Carolina A&T State University to win the US National Science Foundation funding for the first national engineering research center in the area of power electronics, the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). With over 20 professors and over 200 students, working in partnership with more than 80 companies, CPES became the most renowned power electronics research and education center in the world. In addition to its alumni, probably the most enduring legacy of CPES was the paradigm shift in power electronics research towards higher levels of integration and modularization.

Prof. Boroyevich was CPES Director from 2017 to 2021, after Fred Lee retired. From 2017 to 2024, he was Virginia Tech's University Distinguished Professor, as well as Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation in Energy Systems, leading the Energy Innovation Initiative to expand and unify the university’s power electronics and power systems research and education programs, and successfully extending the CPES research laboratories into Washington, DC, metro area. Today, with its 12 faculty and over 90 graduate students, CPES at Virginia Tech continues its mission to provide leadership through global collaborative research and education, aiming to create advanced electric power processing systems that offer the highest value to society.

In his 50-year long academic career, Prof. Boroyevich led numerous research projects in the areas of multi-phase power conversion, electronic power distribution systems, modeling and control, and multi-disciplinary design optimization of power electronics converters. He developed a comprehensive geometric approach to modeling and control of high-frequency switching power converters that is widely used in the analysis, design, and control of multi-phase ac power conversion systems. He was advisor for over 60 Ph.D. and almost 60 M.S. students, and has co-authored with them over 1,000 technical publications and 27 patents, which were cited over 50,000 times. In the last 10 years, Dushan has focused his activities on developing and promoting his vision for avoiding the climate-change catastrophe by building a new global electronic network for generation, transmission, and distribution of renewable electrical energy. Since his retirement in September 2024, Dushan is spending more time with his wife, son, and 3 grandkids, but also continues his work on advancing the vision of sustainable energy abundance for humanity through engagements with supportive institutions and forums around the world.

Dr. Boroyevich is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Fellow of China Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE). He is a recipient of the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Technical Field Award and of IEEE Power Electronics Society Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award, and he was the President of IEEE Power Electronics Society in 2011-2012. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award by the European Power Electronics Association and the award for Outstanding Achievements and Service to Profession by the European Power Electronics and Motion Control Council. Prof. Boroyevich is an Honorary Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, China University of Mining and Technology, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor at Zhejiang University in P.R. China, as well as the Kwoh-Ting Li Chair Professor at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan Republic of China. He received 12 prize paper awards, several awards for excellence in research and teaching at Virginia Tech and he is a member of the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Academy of Engineering Excellence. Dr. Boroyevich was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for advancements in the control, modeling, and design of electronic power conversion for electric energy and transportation.