Administrative Committee
Below are all of the volunteers who are holding positions in the PELS for the year 2023:
Position | Name (Affiliation) |
President |
Brad Lehman (Northeastern Univ.) |
VP - Technical Operations |
Pat Wheeler (Univ. of Nottingham) |
VP - Conferences |
Jian Sun (Renssalaer Polytechnic Inst.) |
VP - Global Relations |
Mario Pacas (Universitat Siegen) |
VP - Membership | Mark Dehong Xu (Zhejiang Univ.) |
VP - Products |
Yunwei (Ryan) Li (Univ of Alberta) |
VP - Industry and Standards |
Johan Enslin (Clemson Univ.) |
Treasurer |
Pradeep Shenoy (Texas Instruments) |
Constitution and Bylaws | Katherine Kim (Natl. Taiwan Univ.) |
Senior Past President |
Frede Blaabjerg (Aalborg Univ.) |
Immediate Past President |
Liuchen Chang (Univ. of New Brunswick) |
Division II Director |
Years | Name (Affiliation) |
2023 - 2025 |
Vivek Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology, India) Mahshid Amirabadi (Northeastern, USA) Christina DiMarino (Virginia Tech, USA) Philip Carne Kjær (Vestas, Denmark) Hong Li (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Sudip K. Mazumder (Univ. of Illinois Chicago, USA) |
2022 - 2024 |
Stephanie Watts Butler (WattsButler LLC, USA) Ulrike Grossner (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Axel Mertens (Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany) Giovanna Oriti (Naval Postgraduate School, USA) Maryam Saeedifard (Georgia Tech, USA) Shinzo Tamai (Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp., Japan) |
2021 - 2023 |
Noriko Kawakami (Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp., Japan) Yan-Fei Liu (Queen's Univ., Canada) Yunwei (Ryan) Li (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) Pedro Rodriguez (Univ. Loyola Andalusia, Spain) Jennifer Vining (Univ. of Washington, USA) Navid R. Zargari (Rockwell Automation, Canada) |
TC Name | Name (Affiliation) |
TC 1: Control and Modeling of Power Electronics | Luca Corradini (University of Padova) |
TC 2: Power Components, Integration, and Power ICs |
Christina DiMarino (Virginia Tech) |
TC 3: Electrical Machines, Drives, and Automation |
Ali Bazzi (University of Connecticut) |
TC 4: Electrical Transportation Systems |
Mahesh Krishnamurthy (Illinois Inst. of Tech.) |
TC 5: Sustainable Energy Systems |
Juan Balda (Univ. of Arkansas) |
TC 6: Emerging Power Electronic Technologies |
Khurram Khan Afridi (Cornell Univ.) |
TC 7: Critical Power and Energy Storage Systems |
Alexis Kwasinski (Univ. of Pittsburgh) |
TC 8: Electronic Power Grid Systems | Marco Liserre (Kiel Univ.) |
TC 9: Wireless Power Transfer Systems | Grant Covic (Univ. of Auckland) |
TC 10: Design Methodologies | Kevin Hermanns (PE-Systems GmbH) |
TC 11: Aerospace Power | Tao Yang (Univ. of Nottingham) |
TC 12: EnergyAccess and Off-Grid Systems | Sanjib Panda (Natl. Univ. of Singapore) |
Position | Name (Affiliation) |
Academic Affairs Chair |
Qiang Li (Virginia Tech) |
Awards Committee Chair |
Andreas Lindemann (Universitaet Magdeburg) |
Chapter and Membership Chair |
Mark Dehong Xu (Zhejiang Univ.) |
Digital Media / Education |
Prasad Enjeti (Texas A&M Univ.) |
Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Program |
John Shen (Illinois Inst. of Tech.) |
ECCE Global Steering Committee Chair |
D. Grahame Holmes (Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech.) |
Fellow Evaluations Chair |
Leila Parsa (UC Santa Cruz) |
History |
Dean Patterson (Regal Beloit Asia Pacific) |
Industry Committee Chair |
Stephanie Watts Butler (WattsBulter, LLC) |
Long Range Planning Committee Chair |
Frede Blaabjerg (Aalborg Univ.) |
Mentorship Chair | Robert Balog (Texas A&M Univ.) |
Nominations Committee Chair |
Liuchen Chang (Univ. of New Brunswick) |
Publicity |
Helen Cui (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) |
Standards | Matt Wilkowski (EnaChip) |
Student Membership Chair |
Haifah Sambo (UC Berkeley) |
Women in Engineering (WiE) Chair |
Lauren Kegley (Wolfspeed) |
Young Professionals Membership Chair |
Publication Name | Name (Affiliation) |
Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE) |
Tsorng-Juu (Peter) Liang (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.) |
Open Journal of Power Electronics (OJPEL) | Alan Mantooth (Univ. of Arkansas) |
Photonics Journal | Gabriella Cincotti (University Roma Tre) |
Power Electronics Letters (TPEL-Letters) |
Xiongfei Wang (Aalborg University) |
Power Electronics Magazine (MPEL) | Ashok Bindra (Independent Writing and Editing Professional) |
Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) |
Yaow-Ming Chen (Natl. Taiwan Univ.) |
Transactions on Sustainable Energy | Badrul H. Chowdhury (Univ. of North Carolina Charlotte) |
Transactions on Transportation Electrification (TTE) |
Alireza Khaligh (Univ. of Maryland) |
Electrification Magazine | Lingling Fan (USF EE Dept) |
Liaison Name | Name (Affiliation) |
Industry Applications Society (IAS) | Enrico Santi (Univ. of South Carolina) |
Industrial Electronics Society (IES) |
Marco Liserre (Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel) |
Power and Energy Society (PES) |
Xiongfei Wang (Aalborg Univ.) |
Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) |
Cian Ó Mathúna (Tyndall Natl. Inst.) |
Smart Grid |
Antonello Monti (Aachen Univ.) |
Systems Council Representative | Ernie Parker (Crane Aerospace and Electronics) |
Transportation Electrification Community | Peter Wilson (Univ. of Bath) |
IEEE Electrification Magazine Steering Committee | Yunwei (Ryan) Li (Univ. of Alberta) |
North America Region (R1-7) | |
Position | Name (Affiliation) [Region(s)] |
Chairs |
Brian Zahnstecher (PowerRox) [R1-3] Kalyan Sen (Sen Engineering Solutions, Inc.) [R4-6] Ali Nabavi (Univ. of Toronto) [R7] |
Europe - Africa Region (R8) | |
Position | Name (Affiliation) |
Chair |
Drazen Dujic (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
Vice-Chair: UK | Jun Liang (Cardiff Univ.) |
South America Region (R9) | |
Position | Name (Affiliation) |
Chair |
Luiz Henrique Silva Colado Barreto (Oak Ridge Natl. Laboratory) |
Vice-Chair: Chile | Marco Rivera (Universidad de Talca) |
Asia Pacific Region (R10) | |
Position | Name (Affiliation) |
Chair |
Sanjib K. Panda (Natl. Univ. of Singapore) |
Vice-Chair: Australia and New Zealand |
Mahinda Vilathgamuwa (Queensland Univ. of Tech.) |
Vice-Chair: China |
Kai Sun (Tsinghua Univ.) |
Vice-Chair: India-Pacific |
Srinivas Karanki (India Inst. of Tech. Bhubaneswar) |
Vice-Chair: Japan |
Shinzo Tamai (Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp.) |
Vice-Chair: Korea |
Honnyong Cha (Kyungpook Natl. Univ.) |
Position | Name (program area) |
Executive Director | Mike Kelly (IEEE) |
Program Manager |
Jane Celusak (EBL, TEC) |
Program Specialist |
Megan Cichocki (Awards, Education) Becky Boresen (Governance) |
Society Administrator |
Mary Beth Schwartz (Publications) Jessica Uherek (Membership) Elizabeth (Liz) Mahon (Conferences) Brianna Fornaro (TCs, Standards) |