Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award
About the Award
The Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the power electronics field by an engineer under 35 years of age. Since 1999, it has been dedicated to the memory of Richard M. Bass of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Award Prize:
- Plaque
- An honorarium of USD 1,500
- Reimbursement of up to USD 1,000 towards the recipient’s necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony
Submitting a Nominee
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Award Details
Recognizing Outstanding Achievements
2023 Honoree:
Minjie Chen
For contributions to the modeling, design and application of high-performance power electronic systems
Minjie Chen is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. He received his S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2015 and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2009. His research interests include high-frequency power electronics, power architecture, power magnetics, advanced packaging, data-driven methods, design automation, and design methods of high-performance power electronics for emerging and important applications.
Prof. Chen is a recipient of the IEEE PELS Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award, the Princeton SEAS E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Junior Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, five IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Awards, a COMPEL Best Paper Award, an ICRA Best Poster Award, three ECCE Best Demo Awards, a 3D-PEIM Rao R. Tummala Best Paper Award, an OCP Best Paper Award, a Siebel research award, a C3.ai research award, a First Place Award of Princeton Keller Center Innovation Forum, and the MIT EECS D. N. Chorafas Ph.D. Thesis Award. He was listed on the Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching multiple times. Dr. Chen is an IEEE senior member, the Vice Chair of PELS TC10 Design Methodologies, and the TPC member of a few flagship PELS conferences including APEC, ECCE, COMPEL, and ICDCM. His research team developed the MagNet database, built the MagNet-AI platform, launched the MagNet Challenge, and is leading the open-source MagNet community.
Eligibility Requirements & Criteria
Eligibility: All IEEE members of any grade who are active in the field of power electronics and less than 35 years of age as of 1 January of the year of the award are eligible. There is no restriction on affiliation, age, gender, IEEE member grade, or nationality.
Criteria: Candidates are judged based on the following criteria:
- Outstanding contributions encompassing a broad range of activities, including innovative product design, project management, research, and teaching
- Outstanding contributions in the multidisciplinary field of power electronics
- The technical disciplines that encompass the field of power electronics, including the analysis, design, development, simulation, and application of electronic devices, magnetics, controls and power circuits for inverters, converters, and motor drives ranging in power levels from fractions of a watt to megawatts
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient Name |
| 2023 | Minjie Chen |
| 2022 | Daniel Costinett |
| 2021 | Yongheng Yang |
| 2020 | Pradeep Shenoy |
| 2019 | Katherine Kim |
| 2018 | Xiongfei Wang |
| 2017 | Ali Davoudi |
| 2016 | Huai Wang |
| 2015 | Zixin Li |
| 2014 | Robert Pilawa-Podgurski |
| 2013 | Yunwei (Ryan) Li |
| 2012 | Samir Kouro |
| 2011 | Jin Wang |
| 2010 | Maryam Saeedifard |
| 2009 | Rangarajan Tallam |
| 2008 | Regan Zane |
| 2007 | Christian Klumpner |
| 2006 | Patrick Chapman |
| 2005 | Ali Emadi |
| 2004 | Philip Carne Kajaer |
| 2003 | Babak Fahimi |
| 2002 | Pallab Midya |
| 2001 | David J. Perreault |
| 2000 | Jose A. Cobos |
| 1999 | Steven B. Leeb |
| 1998 | Frede Blaabjerg |
| 1997 | Vlako Vlatkovic |
Questions?
Please send any questions to the PELS Awards Committee.