IS08 - AI Tools for More Efficient Power Electronics Design

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT

Industry Session Chair(s)

8:30 AM - 8:55 AM CT

Repurposing Power Electronics into an AI Reservoir Model
Industry Session Presenter: Subham Sahoo (he/him/his) – Aalborg University
8:55 AM - 9:20 AM CT

Charting the Future: A Taxonomy of AI -Driven Power Electronics
Industry Session Presenter: Joao Pereira Pinto – ORNL
9:20 AM - 9:45 AM CT

AI-Augmented Design and Optimization of Power Electronics
Industry Session Presenter: Lav Thyagarajan, PhD (he/him/his) – Eaton
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM CT

AI in Power Electronics Development and Operation
Industry Session Presenter: Nima Tashakor – Volkswagen
Industry Session Presenter: Artjom Avakian – Volkswagen
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM CT

AI at the Edge: Resource-Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Control in Power Electronics
Industry Session Presenter: Christian Schumann (he/him/his) – University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM CT

Temporal Modeling for Proactive Reliability in Power Electronic Architectures
Industry Session Presenter: Varaha Satya Bharath Kurukuru, PhD (he/him/his) – Silicon Austria Labs
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Power Electronics Design
Industry Session Presenter: Xinze Li – University of Arkansas