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Committee Members

ECCE Organizing Committee

General Chair
John Shen, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Technical Program Chairs
Robert Balog, Texas A&M University, USA
Avoki Omekanda, General Motor, USA
Maryam Saeedfard, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Finance Chair
Jin Wang, Ohio State University, USA

Industrial Partnership Chair
Bruno Lequesne, E-Motors Consulting, USA

Exhibition Chair
Navid Zargari, Rockwell Automation, Canada

Plenary Chairs
K. Rajashekara, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Iqbal Husain, North Carolina State University, USA

Tutorial Chairs
Sudip Mazumder, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Qingchang Zhong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Local Arrangement Chairs
Adel Nasiri, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
Rob Cuzner, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

Special Sessions and Town Hall Meetings Chair
Pete Wung, General Electric, USA

Publicity Chairs
Tiefu Zhao, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA
David Morrison, How2Power, USA

Publication Chair
Ian Brown, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Student Activities Chairs
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, University of Illinois Urbana Champion, USA
Sheldon Williamson, UOIT, Canada

Webmaster and Social Media Chair
Jennifer Vining, Oscilla Power, USA

Student Travel Grant Chair
Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Awards Program Chair
Tom Habetler, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Spouse and Guest Program
Cindy Cuzner, USA
Sophie Shen, USA

Conference Management
Courtesy Associates, USA

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ECCE Technical Program Committee

Technical Program Chairs
Robert Balog, Texas A&M University, USA
Avoki Omekanda, General Motor, USA
Maryam Saeedfard, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Applications

Sudip K. Mazumder (Vice Chair), University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Yilmaz Sozer (Vice Chair), University of Akron, USA
Bilal Akin, UT Dallas, USA
Francisco Canales, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
Jaeho Choi, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
Ahmed Elasser, GE Global Research Center, USA
Ali Elrayyah, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar
Liming   Liu, ABB, USA
Ke Ma, Aalborg University, Demark
Martin Ordonez, UBC, Canada
Akshay Kumar Rathore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tirthajyoti Sarkar, Fairchild Semiconductor, USA
Dezso Sera, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jin Wang, Ohio State University, USA

Smart Grid & Utility Applications

Adel Nasiri (Vice Chair), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Amirnaser Yazdani (Vice Chair), Ryerson University, Canada
Omar Abdel-baqi, Caterpillar, USA
Mahshid Amirabadi, Northeastern University, USA
Ali Davoudi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Kumar Dinesh, Danfoss Drives A/S, USA
Qiang Fu, Eaton, USA
Hui Li, Florida State University, USA
Xiaonan Lu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Goran Mandic, Eaton, USA
Ali Mehrizi-Sani, Washington State University, USA
Behrooz Mirafzal, Kansas State University, USA
Yogesh Patel, Rockwell Automation, USA
Liyan Qu, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
Akshay Kumar Rathore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tiefu Zhao, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Transportation Electrification Applications

Bulent   Sarlioglu (Vice Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Anand Sathyan (Vice Chair), FCA US LLC, USA
Sachin   Bhide, FCA US LLC, USA
Berker Bilgin, McMaster University, Canada
Bing Cheng, Mercedez Benz R&D, USA
Hossein Dadkhah, FCA US LLC, USA
Gurunath Kedar Dongarkar, FCA US LLC, USA
Suresh Gopalakrishnan, General Motors, USA
Oliver Gross, FCA US LLC, USA
Alireza Khaligh, University of Maryland, USA
Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla Motors, USA
Young Joo Lee, General Motors, USA
Srdjan Lukic, North Carolina State University, USA
Omer    Onar      Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Venkateswara Sankaran, Ford Motor Company, USA
Rich Scholer, FCA US LLC, USA
Baiming Shao, Mercedez Benz R&D, USA
Xiaodong Shi, Mercedez Benz R&D, USA
Hong Yang, Magna, USA

Power Converter Topologies

Ali Khajehoddin (Vice Chair), University of Alberta, Canada
Grant Pitel (Vice Chair), Magna-Power Electronics, USA
Yunwei (Ryan) Li (Vice Chair), University of Alberta, Canada
Ali Bazzi, University of Connecticut, USA
Jack Bourne, NWL, USA
Rob Cuzner, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA
Michael Harke, UTC Aerospace Systems, USA
Houshang Karimi, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Masoud Karimi-Ghartemani, Mississippi state university, USA
Greg Kish, University of Alberta, Canada
Ali Mehrizi-Sani, Washington State University, USA
Alireza Safaee, OSRAM SYLVANIA, USA
Giri Venkataramanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Control, Modelling and Optimization of Power Converters

Luca Solero (Vice Chair), Roma Tre University, Italy
Pericle Zanchetta (Vice Chair), University of Nottingham, UK
Stefano Bifaretti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Maurizio Cirrincione, University of South Pacific, Fiji
David Diaz, University of Oviedo, Spain
Andrea Formentini, University of Nottingham, UK
Alessandro Lidozzi, ROMA TRE University, Italy
Giovanna Oriti, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Roberto Petrella, DIEG – University of Udine, Italy
Matthias Preindl, University of Columbia, USA
Marcello Pucci, ISSIA-CNR, Italy
Jon Are Suul SINTEF, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Lixiang  Wei, Rockwell Automation, USA
Navid Zargari, Rockwell Automation, Canada

Electrical Machines

Emmanuel Agamloh (Vice Chair), Advanced Energy, USA
Akira Chiba (Vice Chair), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Luigi Alberti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Ali Bazzi, University of Connecticut, USA
Nicola Bianchi, University of Padova, Italy
Andrea Cavagnino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Francesco Cupertino, Politechnico Bari, Italy
Giulio De Donato, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
David Diaz Reigosa, University of Oviedo, Spain
Abraham Gebregergis, Halla Mechatronics, USA
Greg Heins, Regal Beloit, USA
Mohammad Islam, Halla Mechatronics, USA
Sang Bin Lee, Korea University, South Korea
Renato Lyra, Aerotech Inc., USA
Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR, Portugal
Wen Ouyang, ABB US Corporate Research Center, USA
Yves Perriard, EPFL, Switzerland
Rashmi Prasad, General Motors, USA
Marcello Pucci, ISSIA-CNR, Italy
Ronghai Qu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Khwaja Rahman, General Motors, USA
Manoj Shah, GE -Global Research, USA
Thomas Wu, University of Central Florida, USA
Wei Xu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, USA
Shih-Chin Yang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Julia Zhang, Oregon State University, USA

Electric Drives

Fabio Giulii Capponi (Vice Chair), University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Mahesh Swamy (Vice Chair), Yaskawa America, Inc., USA
Davide  Barater, University of Parma, Italy
Ali Bazzi, University of Connecticut, USA
Nicola Bianchi, University of Padova, Italy
Wenping Cao, Aston University, UK
Mazharul Chowdhury, Halla Mechatronics, USA
Uday Deshpande, Ingersoll Rand, USA
David Diaz Reigosa, University of Oviedo, Spain
Rukmi Dutta, UNSW, Australia
Marko Hinkkanen, Aalto University, Finland
Rakib Islam, Nexteer Automotive, USA
Dong Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR, Portugal
Di Pan, GE Global Research, USA
Gianmario Pellegrino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Roberto Petrella, DIEG – University of Udine, Italy
Prerit Pramod, Nexteer Automotive Corporation, USA
Rashmi Prasad, General Motors, USA
Ramakrishnan Raja, Halla Mechatronics, USA
Giacomo Scelba, University of Catania, Italy
Stefan Schroeder, GE Global Research, USA
Jul-Ki Seok, Yeungnam University, South Korea
Takahiro Suzuki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Shih-Chin Yang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Pinjia Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Yue Zhao, University of Arkansas, USA

Power Semiconductor Devices, Passive Components, Packaging, Integration, and Materials

Shashank Krishnamurthy (Vice Chair), UTRC, USA
Ty McNutt (Vice Chair), Wolfspeed, a Cree Company, USA
Daniel Costinett, University of Tennessee, USA
Muhammad Nawaz, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Jelena Popovic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Pradeep S. Shenoy, Texas Instruments, USA|
Charles Sullivan , Dartmouth College, USA
Ruxi Wang, General Electric Global Research Center, USA

Energy Efficiency Systems and Applications

Dehong “Mark” Xu (Vice Chair), Zhejiang University, China
Khurram Afridi (Vice Chair), University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Francisco Canales, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
David Perreault, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Emerging Technologies and Applications

Tsorng-Juu Liang (Vice Chair), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Yaosuo “Sonny” Xue (Vice Chair), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Yaow-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Huang-Jen Chiu, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Oscar Lucia, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Huai Wang, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jin Wang, Ohio State University, USA
Francisco Canales, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
David Perreault, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Datacenters and Telecommunication Applications

Robert  Pilawa-Podgurski (Vice Chair), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alexis  Kwasinksi (Vice Chair), University of Pittsburgh, USA

 

Recent Posts

  • Plenary and Special Session Presentations, Available for Download November 2, 2016
  • Final Technical Program Book Now Available September 9, 2016
  • Preliminary Program Release is Aug 1 July 18, 2016
  • Conference Hotel Reservation Cutoff Date is Aug 26 July 18, 2016
  • Registration is Now Open May 23, 2016

Important Dates

Preliminary Program Release
August 1, 2016 or sooner
Early Registration Deadline
August 6, 2016 (Higher rates apply after August 6)
Conference Hotel Reservation Cutoff Date
August 26. 2016
Final Manuscript Submission
July 1, 2016 – Manuscript upload deadline
Call for Papers
January 24, 2016 – Digest submission
May 1, 2016 – Author notification
July 1, 2016 – Final manuscript submission
Call for Tutorials
February 1, 2016 – Proposal submission
March 31, 2016 – Notification of decision
Call for Special Session Organizers
March 31, 2016 – Proposal submission
May 1, 2016 – Notification of decision

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