Dushan Boroyevich

Dushan Boroyevich was born in 1952 in Zagreb, 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.

From 1976 to 1982, Dr. Boroyevich was instructor at the Institute for Power and Electronic Engineering of the University of Novi Sad, helping to establish the electronics program.  After three and a half years on doctoral studies at Virginia Tech with General Electric Co. Fellowship, he returned to the University of Novi Sad in 1986 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 has become the most renowned power electronics research and education center in the world.  In addition to its alumni, probably the most enduring legacy of CPES is the paradigm shift in power electronics research towards higher levels of integration and modularization.

Dr. Boroyevich is the American Electric Power Professor at Virginia Tech and CPES co-director.  He has led numerous research projects in the areas of multi-phase power conversion, electronic power distribution systems, modeling and control, and multi-disciplinary design optimization.  He developed a comprehensive geometric approach to modeling and control of high-frequency switching power converters, which is widely used for the analysis, design, and control of multi-phase ac power conversion systems.  He advised over 20 Ph.D. and almost 30 M.S. students to graduation and co-authored with them over 400 technical publications.

Dr. Boroyevich is a Fellow of IEEE and recipient of IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Technical Field Award.  He received the Award for Outstanding Achievements and Service to Profession by the European Power Electronics and Motion Control Council, four prize paper awards, and several awards for excellence in research and teaching at Virginia Tech.  Dr. Boroyevich is the 2010 President Elect of IEEE Power Electronics Society.