ALL SPECIAL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN PERSON ONLY. THERE WILL BE NO STREAMING OR RECORDING.
ALL SPECIAL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN PERSON ONLY. THERE WILL BE NO STREAMING OR RECORDING.
Special Panel Sessions invite leading industry, government, and academia experts to discuss the latest and emerging technologies relating to energy conversion.
Click on each title for detailed session information.
SP01: SiC and GaN Applications in Electric Vehicles: Current Issues
SP04: Challenges and Opportunities for Lunar Surface Microgrids
SP05: New developments in Wide-Bandgap Bidirectional Switches and Applications
SP06: Future Trends and Challenges in Vehicle Electrification – Part I Power Electronics and Motors
SP07: Reliability of Power-Electronic Systems for Solar Energy
SP08: Future Trends and Challenges in Vehicle Electrification – Part II Battery and Charging
SP10: Advanced Cooling Systems for Electric Machines and Power Electronic Converters – Part I
SP12: Advanced Cooling Systems for Electric Machines and Power Electronic Converters – Part II
SP14: Advanced Power Electronics and Drives for Commercial Vehicle Electrifications
SP15: Power Electronics for Integration of MV Utility-Scale PV Systems
SP16: Towards Enhancing the Resiliency of Grid-Interactive Inverters
SP17: GaN Integrated Circuits and Challenges Solved by Integration
Time | Titles, Organizers (*) and Speakers |
Monday
12:30-2:10 |
SP01: SiC and GaN Applications in Electric Vehicles: Current Issues (open in pdf)
Victor Veliadis*, Executive Director and CTO, PowerAmerica Vincent McNeil, Director, Segment Line Powertrain Electrification, Business Line Advanced Analog, NXP Semiconductors Agasthya Ayachit, Senior Systems Engineer, Mercedes-Benz R&D North America Brij Singh, Region 4 Manager, External Relationships, Deere & Co. Llew Vaughan-Edmunds, Senior Director of Marketing, Navitas Semiconductor Kevin Bai, Associate Professor, CURENT, University of Tennessee-Knoxville |
Monday
12:30-2:10 |
SP02: Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems: Technology Innovation for Scalable, Affordable and Sustainable Energy Access Solutions (open in pdf)
Sanjib Kumar Panda*, Director, Power & Energy, National University of Singapore Issa Batarseh*, Professor, University of Central Florida Deepak Divan, John E Pippin Chair, GRA Eminent Scholar and Director of the Center for Distributed Energy at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA Philip T. Krein, Grainger Endowed Director’s Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics as Professor and Director of the Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics Jelena Popović, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands |
Monday
2:20-4:25 |
SP03: High Efficiency, High Power Density, and Fault-Tolerant Motor and Drives for Electric Vehicles and Electric Airplanes – Similarities and Differences (open in pdf)
Bulent Sarlioglu*, Jean van Bladel Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Associate Director, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium Ozge Taskin*, Senior electric machine designer, Ricardo UK Ayman M. El-Refaie*, Werner Endowed Chair for Energy Sustainability, Marquette University Michelle Witherspoon, Controls IPT Lead at GE Aviation Hao Ge, Staff Motor Design Engineer, Tesla Thomas Jahns, UW-Madison Peter DeBock, US Department of Energy (DOE) ARPA-e Xavier Collazo-Fernandez, NASA |
Tuesday
8:30-10:10 |
SP04: Challenges and Opportunities for Lunar Surface Microgrids (open in pdf)
Jin Wang*, Professor, The Ohio State University Jeffrey Csank, Electrical Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center Josep M. Guerrero, Professor, Aalborg University Michael Futrell, Senior Principal Engineer, Collins Aerospace Parag Kshirsagar, Discipline Lead, Raytheon Technologies Research Center |
Tuesday
8:30-10:10 |
SP05: New developments in Wide-Bandgap Bidirectional Switches and Applications (open in pdf)
Victor Veliadis*, Chief Executive & CTO, PowerAmerica Thomas M. Jahns*, Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison Subhashish Battacharya, Professor, North Carolina State University Johann Kolar, Professor, ETH Zurich Bulent Sarlioglu, Assoc. Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WEMPEC Michale Harris, CTO, Atom Power Govind Chavan, ABB US Corporate Research Center |
Wednesday
8:30-10:10 |
SP06: Future Trends and Challenges in Vehicle Electrification – Part I Power Electronics and Motors (open in pdf)
Mazharul Chowdhury*, Motor Design Engineer, General Motors Arshan Khan*, Director- Power Electronics & Motors, CNH Industrial Diego Troncon, Motor Technical Specialist, CNH Industrial Lakshmi Gopi Reddy*, Power Electronics Technical Specialist, CNH Industrial Ayman El-Refaie, Professor, Marquette University Avoki Omekanda, Staff Researcher, Electric Machine & Drive Systems, General Motors Amir Ranjbar, Senior Technical Fellow, Electrification – HV Power Electronics, Canoo Brian McKay, Product Segment Director, Vehicle Electrification Systems, Aptiv Saeed Siavoshani, Director, Electrification, FEV Hossein Dadkhah, Director, Dana Corporation |
Wednesday
8:30-10:10 |
SP07: Reliability of Power-Electronic Systems for Solar Energy (open in pdf)
Sudip K. Mazumder*, Professor, University of Illinois Chicago Frede Blaabjerg, Professor, Aalborg University Patrick McCluskey, Professor, University of Maryland at College Park Jack D. Flicker, Principle Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories |
Wednesday
10:30-12:10 |
SP08: Future Trends and Challenges in Vehicle Electrification – Part II Battery and Charging (open in pdf)
Mazharul Chowdhury*, Motor Design Engineer, General Motors Arshan Khan*, Director- Power Electronics & Motors, CNH Industrial Diego Troncon, Motor Technical Specialist, CNH Industrial Lakshmi Gopi Reddy*, Power Electronics Technical Specialist, CNH Industrial Ameer Al-Janabi, Researcher, University of Cambridge V Anand Sankaran, Director, Ford Ion Park – Battery Center of Excellence at Ford Motor Company Mohammad Alamgir, Director of Research, LG Chem Power, Inc Wasim Sarwar, Head of Research & Advanced Engineering, Rimac Automobili Ahmed Mohammed, Engineering Specialist, Eaton Research Labs Awad Syed, Director of Battery Systems, Our Next Energy (ONE) |
Wednesday
10:30-12:10 |
SP09: Paradigm Shift towards 100% Renewables in Modern Power Systems: Theory and Practice of Grid-Forming Inverter Technologies (open in pdf)
Xiaonan Lu*, Associate Professor, Purdue University Jin Tan*, Senior Engineer and Distinguished Research Staff, National Renewable Energy Laboratory John Seuss, Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Abhishek Banerjee, Research Scientist, Siemens Technology Phil Hart, Senior Engineer, General Electric Research Wei Du, Senior Research Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Yu Li, Manager in Transmission Planning, Hawaiian Electric Corporation (HECO) Cameron Kruse, Engineering and Technology Manager, Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC), USA Alston Dcosta, Microgrid Solutions Engineer, AES |
Wednesday
2:00-3:40 |
SP10: Advanced Cooling Systems for Electric Machines and Power Electronic Converters – Part I (open in pdf)
Bulent Sarlioglu*, Jean van Bladel Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Associate Director, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium Jin Wang*, Professor, Ohio State University Sreekant Narumanchi, Group Manager of the Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines Group, Center of Integrated Mobility Sciences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Brij Singh, Technical Fellow – Power Electronics Engineering, John Deere Jeffrey Ewanchuk, Principal Engineer in Power Electronics at Raytheon Technologies Research Center Alan Mantooth, University of Arkansas |
Wednesday
2:00-3:40 |
SP11: Measurement Technology Required for the Power Electronics Industry that Leads the Decarbonized Society (open in pdf)
Christopher Scholz*, Director of Marketing, HIOKI USA Masayuki Harano, Sensors Product Manager, HIOKI E.E., Ueda Mike Hawes, Automotive & Energy Solutions Planning Manager at Keysight Technologies John Tucker, Business Manager and Power Market Segment Leader, Tektronix Ken Johnson, Director of Marketing, Product Architect, Teledyne LeCroy Dave Gallop, Business Development Manager, Dewesoft Paul R. Ohodnicki, Jr. Assoc. Professor and Director of the Advanced Magnetics for Energy and Power Development (AMPED) Consortium, University of Pittsburgh |
Wednesday
4:00-5:40 |
SP12: Advanced Cooling Systems for Electric Machines and Power Electronic Converters – Part II (open in pdf)
Bulent Sarlioglu*, Jean van Bladel Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Associate Director, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium Jin Wang*, Professor, Ohio State University Sreekant Narumanchi*, Group Manager of the Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines Group, Center of Integrated Mobility Sciences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Ercan M. Dede, Director of the Electronics Research Department at the Toyota Research Institute of North America Ozge Taskin, Senior Electric Machine Designer, Ricardo Patrick McCluskey, University of Maryland Bidzina Kekelia, DOE NREL |
Wednesday
4:00-5:40 |
SP13: Standard development for solid state transformer: an update on existing IEEE standards on magnetics and new standard for solid state transformer (open in pdf)
Marco Liserre*, Professor, Kiel University Johan Enslin*, Professor, Clemson University Xu She*, Director of Engineering, Lunar energy Matt Wikowski*, Vice president of magnetic technology and product development, Enachip Zhixiang Zou*, Southeast University George Slam, Senior Applications and Content Engineer Wurth Elektronik, Chairperson ETTC Paul Ohodnicki, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Rudy Wang, Senior member of technical staff, Delta Electronics Vijay Bhavaraju, Principal engineer, Eaton Corporation Jung-Ik Ha, Professor, Seoul National University Alex Q. Huang, Chair professor, University of Texas Austin |
Thursday
8:30-10:10 |
SP14: Advanced Power Electronics and Drives for Commercial Vehicle Electrifications (open in pdf)
Akm Arafat*, Principal Control Engineer, Drive System Design Inc. Yash Veer Singh, Eaton Research Lab JiangBiao He, University of Kentucky Santhosh Krishnamoorthi, Cummins Inc. Harsha Nanjundaswamy, Global Chief Engineer, BorgWarner Inc. |
Thursday
8:30-10:10 |
SP15: Power Electronics for Integration of MV Utility-Scale PV Systems (open in pdf)
Juan Carlos Balda*, University of Arkansas and TC5 Chair Ke Ma*, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and TC5 Conference Vice-Chair Yongheng Yang*, Zhejiang University and TC5 Secretary Adel Nasiri*, University of South Carolina and TC5 Operations Vice-Chair John Seuss, Technology Manager for DOE Solar Energy Technologies Offices (SETO) Ashish Kumar and Kraig Olejniczak, Wolfspeed Jun Xu, R&D department head at Sungrow Ariya Sangwongwanich, Aalborg University |
Thursday
10:30-12:10 |
SP16: Towards Enhancing the Resiliency of Grid-Interactive Inverters (open in pdf)
Robert Reedy*, Technology Manager at BGS and Contractor to DOE – SETO Behrooz Mirafzal*, Professor, Kansas State University Maozhong Gong, Principal Engineer, GE Research Akanksha Singh, Senior Research Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory JiangBiao He, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky |
Thursday
10:30-12:10 |
SP17: GaN Integrated Circuits and Challenges Solved by Integration (open in pdf)
Tanya Gachovska*, Senior Power Engineer MDA Alex Lidow, CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation Simon Li, Co- founder of GaNPower International Mohamed Imam, Director, Concept & Device Engineering, GaN Technology at Infineon Doug Bailey, Vice President Marketing & Applications Engineering at Power Integrations Francesco Ferrazza, Application Engineer – STMicroelectronics |