Recent Pilawa Group graduates Dr. Rahul Iyer and current postdoctoral scholar Dr. Yicheng Zhu have each been awarded the 2025 PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk Award! This award is granted yearly to outstanding graduates who have defended their thesis and submit an additional video submission to the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Participants are judged based on the achieved outcomes of their work in power electronics, the rigor of their design methodology, net contribution to the progress of the field, and quality of presentation. Dr. Iyer and Dr. Zhu are among a total of five worldwide winners for the current academic year.
The Berkeley Power and Energy Center’s very own Professor Jessica Boles was a past recipient of this award in 2023. Pilawa Group alumnus Dr. Zichao Ye was a past recipient of this award in 2021.
Read more about the 2025 winners–and past winners–of the award here: https://www.ieee-pels.org/awards/pels-ph-d-thesis-talk-p3-talk/.