Graduate students Rod Bayliss III, Emmi Wyttenbach, and Tahmid Mahbub were recently recognized with best presentation awards for their work at APEC 2026 at San Antonio, Texas! Their work spans three compelling application spaces of switched capacitor converters. Rod was awarded for his work titled “Design and Implementation of a Three-Phase Eight-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Rectifier for Future Data Center Power Delivery,” in which he demonstrates the rectification of a 480V grid to a high voltage, 800V DC bus. This research helps to pave the way for high voltage power delivery in data center applications, and can be read at the following link. Emmi’s work also has important implications for the future of data center power delivery. She was awarded for her work titled “An Output Voltage Maximizer for Efficiency Improvement in Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters,” in which she presents a control technique to improve the efficiency of resonant switched-capacitor converters, a popular choice for intermediate bus converters. Finally, Tahmid was awarded for his work on the design of an exceptionally gravitationally dense power converter for more-electric aircraft DC bus generation. His work is titled “An 8-level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Boost Converter for High-Voltage Power Distribution in Electric Aircraft” and helps pave a path forward for realizable electric flight in the future.
Congratulations to Tahmid, Emmi, and Rod on their incredible achievements!