Session Information
DATE: Monday, October 20, 2025
EVENT SCHEDULE
Keynotes Session |
Time |
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Morning Session |
8:20 am – 10:20 am |
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Afternoon Session |
1:30 pm – 2:40 pm |
Dr. Burak Ozpineci
Section Head, Vehicle and Mobility Systems Research Section
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Burak Ozpineci earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Orta Dogu Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1994. He then completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he began as a student and has held positions as a researcher, founding group leader of the Power and Energy Systems Group,group leader of the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Group. He currently serves as a Corporate Fellow and the Section Head of the Vehicle and Mobility Systems Research Section. Additionally, he has a joint faculty appointment with The University of Tennessee. He also serves as the VP for Technical Activities and President-Elect for IEEE Transportation Electrification Council. Dr. Ozpineci is a Fellow of IEEE.
Dr. Xin Wu
Technology to Market Advisor
ARPAe
Dr. Xin Wu is the Technology to Market Advisor at ARPAe, with a focus on electrification, aviation and grid. She joins ARPAe from Pratt and Whitney (PW), where she and has over 16 years of design and development experience in the areas of Power Electronics and Electrical System Integration.
A career starting at Ansys Corporation in 2005 provided her with her initial background in the area of Electromechanical System Modeling and Simulation. In 2010, Dr. Wu joined Raytheon Technologies Research Center, leading efforts in the application of advanced semi-conductor devices across RTX business units (BU) and leading efforts to design and develop wireless power transfer and embedded sensing systems through additive manufacturing. She led a multidisciplinary BU team, to design, built and test a high-power high-density power converter for RTX’s Hybrid Electric Propulsion Demonstration programs, as well as the MegaWatt Power Distribution System program to develop high speed high density Solid State Circuit Breaker and power quality filters with advanced materials for aerospace electrical system integration. Dr. Wu transferred to PW as the Discipline Chief for Integrated Electrical Systems and Architecture. While at PW, she led electrical system technology development activities to establish an integrated strategy with the Military and Commercial Advanced Development Program Offices into demonstrator and program plans, leveraged outside technology capabilities from partners, suppliers, other RTX business units, universities and government labs and lead studies to ensure technology identification and benefits quantification are addressed.
Dr. Wu holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology –China, and a PhD. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Ed Lovelace
CTO and VP of Engineering
Ampaire
Dr.Ed Lovelace is the CTO and VP of Engineering leading the technology and certification roadmap and strategy for Ampaire’s electrified propulsion aircraft portfolio. Key technology areas of focus include gas power plants, electric machinery, power conversion and distribution, and energy storage systems for hybrid and full electric powertrains. Ed has 30+ years of new
product development and commercialization experience including CTO and VP/Director of Engineering at several startups focused on electrified powertrain commercial trucks and buses (XL Fleet), hydrokinetic renewable power generation (Free Flow Power), and electric power conversion technology for sea, land, and air mobility (SatCon Technology) as well as leading electrification technology at Aurora Flight Sciences, A Boeing Company, as a Technical Fellow, and aircraft engine controls development with GE Aviation. Dr. Lovelace is a U.S. DOT Eisenhower Fellow in transportation research with a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and he is Chair of the SAE E-40 Electrified Propulsion Aircraft standards committee.
Jamie Haas
Vice President, Technology Development and AI
Allegro
Jamie Haas is Vice President, Technology Development and AI, and Technology Fellow, returned to Allegro in 2023 after serving as VP of Engineering at an AI sensor startup. He has 25 years of semiconductor design and development experience, including his initial 18-year tenure with Allegro that began in 2003. Jamie designed many of Allegro’s current sensing and position sensing products and has a love for analog mixed signal design, software, and AI. In his current
role, Jamie is responsible for leading Allegro’s next generation technology developments in the areas of semiconductor process technologies, magnetic sensing, robotics actuation system integration and spearheading the company’s AI product/tool strategy.
Jamie holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and has completed extensive continuous learning coursework, including a Dartmouth Leadership program in 2023. He currently holds 25 semiconductor-related US patents.
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