Graduate students Francesca Giardine, Kelly Fernandez (PhD, Fall 2023), along with Dr. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski have won Best Paper Award at IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Expo – Europe. They presented A Two-Stage Non-Isolated Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Microinverter Utilizing a Fixed-Ratio Resonant DC-DC Stage with Startup Functionality and Flying Capacitor Multilevel DC-AC Stage. Their work demonstrated a […]
Conferences
Ben Liao wins Best Presentation Award at 2024 IEEE PECI
EE researcher Ben Liao, working with Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, has received the Best Presentation Award at the 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) – a student-directed power and energy conference held annually at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The PECI Best Presentation Award is determined both by conference directors and input […]
Berkeley EECS wins Best Presentation Awards at IEEE APEC
EE grad student Logan Horowitz and post-doc Nathan Miles Ellis, advised by Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, have received awards for outstanding technical presentations at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC)–the flagship conference in power electronics. Logan received a Best Presentation award for his work on a 14-level Flying-Capacitor-Multilevel inverter for electric vehicles, and Nathan for […]
BPEC attends APEC
BPEC researchers traveled to Long Beach, CA to the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) to showcase our new center and research projects. Thank you to everyone who stopped by for excellent technical discussions.
Two graduate students receive technical awards at IEEE APEC
Two Berkeley EECS graduate students, Haifah Sambo and Logan Horowitz, received separate Technical Session Best Presentation Awards at the 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), after a rigorous review process that highlights the conference’s most innovative technical solutions. Sambo received a Technical Lecture Award, for her oral presentation of her paper, “Autotuning of Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters for Zero Current […]
EECS Grads win IEEE COMPEL Best Paper Award
Graduate students Nathan Brooks, Samantha Coday, Maggie Blackwell, Rose Abramson, and post-doc Nathan Ellis have won the IEEE COMPEL Best Paper Award for their paper, “Operation of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters At and Above Resonance.” The paper was presented at the 23rd IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), which took place […]
Amanda Jackson, Samantha Coday, Kelly Fernandez, and Rose Abramson win IEEE APEC best presentation awards
Four EECS students in Robert Pilawa-Podgurski’s lab have won best presentation awards for papers they presented at the 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in March. Three Technical Lecture Awards were won by: undergraduate EECS student Amanda Jackson for “A Capacitively-Isolated Dual Extended LC-Tank Converter with 50% Two-Phase Operation at Even Conversion Ratios;” graduate […]