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    Dragan Maksimovic, PhD (he/him/his)

    University of Colorado Boulder

    Dragan Maksimović is a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1989. Since 1992, he has been with the ECEE Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Colorado Power Electronics Center. He has co-authored more than 300 publications and the textbooks Fundamentals of Power Electronics and Digital Control of High-Frequency Switched-Mode Power Converters. Prof. Maksimović received the 1997 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) Transactions Prize Paper Award in 1997, the IEEE PELS Prize Letter Awards in 2009 and 2010, the University of Colorado Inventor of the Year Award in 2006, the IEEE PELS Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award for 2012, the Holland Excellence in Teaching Awards in 2004, 2011 and 2018, the Charles Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award for 2012, the 2013 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2020 College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Research Award, the 2022 IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award, and the 2023 IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award. His current research interests include power electronics for renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, high-frequency power conversion using wide-bandgap semiconductors, and digital control of switched-mode power converters.

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