About the Award
The IEEE PELS Young Professional Exceptional Service Award recognizes exceptional service to the welfare of PELS by members who have graduated with their first professional degree within the past 15 years.
Prize:
- Honorarium (USD 1,500)
- Plaque
- Reimbursement towards the recipient’s necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony (up to USD 1,000)
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Details About the
Award
2026: Jinia Roy
For exceptional service to the PELS Digital Media and PELS Women in Engineering committees
Jinia Roy (Senior Member, IEEE) (jinia.roy@wisc.edu) was with GE Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA, and National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR previously NREL), Golden, CO, USA, for six years. She is currently the Thomas A. Lipo Assistant Professor at UW Madison and the Associate Director of Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC). She has more than 15 years of experience in the field of power electronics working on a wide range of applications including WBG-based PV inverters, grid integration of renewable energy, pulsating power buffer, and pulsed power converter for medical, defense, space, and fusion applications. She was a recipient of the 2019 IEEE PELS Prize Ph.D. Thesis Talk. She was also the recipient of the IEEE/PEDES’96 Award for the Best Thesis in Power Electronics from IIT Kanpur in 2013 and won two Best Paper Presentation Awards at “IEEE IECON 2014” and “APEC 2017.” She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics since 2022. She also serves as a Regional Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE PELS since 2024.
Active PELS members who have graduated with their first professional degree within the past 15 years as of 1 January of the year of the award are eligible. There is no restriction on affiliation, age, IEEE member grade, or nationality
Criteria: Judgment of the nominees will be based on the nomination and impactful contributions to the welfare of PELS, which may include:
- Administrative, leadership, and managerial accomplishments on behalf of PELS
- Contributions in any part of PELS, including PELS Chapters, committees, conferences, transactions, etc.
- General communication and advocacy of power electronics technology to the technical community as a whole
- Initiation of innovative programs and nurturing of PELS activities
2025
Lauren E. Kegley
2024
Nayara Brandão de Freitas
2023
Harish Krishnamoorthy