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    Sudip K. Mazumder, PhD (he/him/his)

    University of Illinois Chicago

    Sudip K. Mazumder is a UIC Distinguished Professor and is the Director of Laboratory for Energy and Switching-Electronics Systems (LESES) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), which he joined in 2001. He has over 30 years of professional experience and has held R&D and design positions in leading industrial organizations, and has served as technical consultant for several industries. He also serves as the President of NextWatt LLC since 2008. He was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016. He is also a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) since 2022. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society (2016-2019). Since 2019 he has been serving as the Editor-at-Large for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the leading journal in power electronics. He also served as the General Chair for The 2023 IEEE PEDG Conference and serves as the General Co-Chair for 2024 IEEE ECCE. He is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE PES's Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award "for contributions to high frequency link power conversion and control technologies for renewable energy”. He received several IEEE awards/honors, including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Awards (2022, 2002) and Highlighted Papers (2023, 2022, 2018), Cover Featured Article for the December 2023 issue of IEEE Power Electronics Magazine (2023), Featured Article for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2023), IEEE Conference Best Paper Award (2013), IEEE Outstanding Paper Award (2007), and IEEE International Future Energy Challenge Award (2005). Earlier, he received the prestigious U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2005) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2003).

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