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Technical Lecture Sessions

Technical Lecture Sessions

  • Thursday, March 26, 2026
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T25 - 48V-to-1V Direct DC-DC Conversion
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Kishan Joshi – Intel Corporation
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Cahit Gezgin, PhD – Infineon Technologies AG
    Student Session Assistant: Yijie Qian – Southeast University
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T26 - Solid State and Hybrid Circuit Breakers
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Yuetao Hou – Texas Instruments
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Aitor Vázquez, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Oviedo
    Student Session Assistant: Preetha Philip (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T27 - Modeling and Simulation: Device & Component Modeling
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Didier Balocoo – Onsemi
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Adam W. Skorek, PhD, IEEE Life Fellow – University of Québec at Trois-Rivières
    Student Session Assistant: Writtik Dutta – Arizona State University
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T28 - IGBTs and Ga2O3 Devices
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Raghav Khanna – University of Toledo
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Samuel K. Atwimah – University of Toledo
    Student Session Assistant: Hamood Ur Rehman, PhD Student – University of Arkansas
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T29 - EMI/EMC & Reliability Investigation of Power Converter
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Weiqiang Chen, PhD – ABB
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Vidhi Patel (she/her/hers) – ABB USCRC
    Student Session Assistant: Koutarou Oguchi – Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T30 - Control 3
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Zahra Saadatizadeh, PhD – Mississippi State University
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Kaushik Basu – Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru
    Student Session Assistant: Kausik Biswas – Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T31 - Power Electronics for Renewable Energy
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Zhehui Guo, PhD (he/him/his) – Delta Electronics (America) Ltd.
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Oleksandr Husev – Warsaw University of Technology
  • 8:20 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    T32 - Resonant and Quasi-Resonant DC-DC Converters 2
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Olivier Trescases – University of Toronto
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Khurram Afridi, PhD – Cornell University
    Student Session Assistant: Asif Mushtaq Bhat – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T33 - 48V Intermediate Bus DC-DC Converters
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Xin Zhang, PhD – IBM
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: PENG FANG, PhD – University of Minnesota Duluth
    Student Session Assistant: Hua Chen (he/him/his) – Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T34 - Integrated Motor Drives and Actuators
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Sneha Narasimhan – ABB
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Ali Safayet, PhD (he/him/his) – Halla Mechatronics
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T35 - Modeling and Simulation: HIL, Digital Twins, and Rapid Prototyping
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Sombuddha Chakraborty – Texas Instruments
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Jeffery Nilles – Alpha & Omega Semiconductor
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T36 - Magnetics Design and Modelling
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Matt Wlkowski – Wurth Elektronik
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Adam W. Skorek, PhD, IEEE Life Fellow – University of Québec at Trois-Rivières
    Student Session Assistant: Ashwini Kumar Dubey (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T37 - Power Module Integration and Measurement
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Wensong Yu, PhD – NC State Univeristy
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Lei Wang – Dell EMC
    Student Session Assistant: Yacine Badaoui (he/him/his) – University of Tiaret
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T38 - Three-Phase AC-DC Converters
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: John Lam – York University
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Yicheng Zhu (he/him/his) – The University of Texas at Austin
    Student Session Assistant: Eunwoo Lee, MS (he/him/his) – Dankook University
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T39 - Control and Diagnostics of Power Converters and Energy Storage
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Zheyu Zhang – RPI
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Mohammed Agamy – University at Albany
    Student Session Assistant: Chang Liu – Zhejiang University
  • 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    T40 - DC-DC Converter Applications
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Eric Swenson – STSM – Power Technology and Qualification
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Xiaonan Lu – Purdue University
    Student Session Assistant: Yijie Qian – Southeast University