IS08 - AI Tools for More Efficient Power Electronics Design

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

8:30 AM - 11:55 AM CT

Location: 207

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-Enabled Prototyping and Experimental Validation of Hybrid Energy Systems
Industry Session Presenter: Zahra Saadatizadeh, PhD – Mississippi State University
Co-Author: Pedram Chavoshipour Heris, PhD – Mississippi State University
Co-Author: Alan Mantooth, PhD – University of Arkansas
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM CT

AI-Driven Digital Twins for Design, Characterization and Reliability of GaN and SiC Power Devices and Systems
Industry Session Presenter: Dominik Koch, MA – University of Stuttgart
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