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

Kevin L. Peterson

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

Nayara Brandao de Freitas

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)


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