About the Award
The IEEE PELS Milan M. Jovanović Award for Power Electronics Emerging Technology recognizes engineers and researchers who have made outstanding technical contributions to one or more emerging research topics in power electronics.
This award is a lasting tribute to Dr. Jovanović’s exemplary and groundbreaking work in the field. For over 40 years, he innovated more efficient ways of supplying electrical energy to information technology devices with smaller sizes and weights, from smartphones to data centers of major Internet companies. He led research teams in developing numerous power supply techniques that are used in hundreds of millions of devices made by manufacturers, enabling further miniaturization of electronics equipment and resulting in enormous cumulative energy savings and electronic-material waste reduction.
Prize:
- Honorarium (USD 1,500)
- Plaque
- Reimbursement for necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony (USD 1,250 or, if a flight with a flying time over six hours is included, USD 2,500)
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Details About the
Award
2026: Drazen Dujic
For contributions to the development of solid-state transformer technologies
Drazen Dujic is an Associate Professor and Director of the Power Electronics Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is engaged in research activities in the broad field of electrical energy generation, conversion, and storage, with a focus on medium voltage high power applications. He received his Dipl. Ing. and MSc degrees from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and his PhD degree from Liverpool John Moores University, UK, in 2008. From 2009 to 2014, he was with ABB Switzerland and engaged in power electronics-related projects spanning the range from low-power power supplies in the kW range to medium voltage high power converters in the MW range. His main research interests are in the areas of design and control of advanced medium-voltage high-power electronics systems and high-performance drives. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Any active IEEE member is eligible for this award. There is no other restrictions as to affiliation, age, IEEE member grade, or nationality.
Criteria: Judgment of the nominees is based on the following:
2025
Chun T. Rim
2024
Udaya K. Madawala
2023
Leon Tolbert
2022
Jin Wang
2021
Grant Covic
2020
Brij Singh
2019
Chunting (Chris) Mi