Syed Tahmid Mahbub has been named one of the 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows, a national, merit-based award granted to new Americans pursuing research at the graduate level. He is recognized both for his award-winning research in the Pilawa Group and for his educational contributions to multiple universities in the United States. Tahmid’s research in the Pilawa Group centers around reducing datacenter power consumption and facilitating the adoption of renewable energy and electrified transportation. He has contributed as a teaching assistant both to the power electronics curricula at the University of California, Berkeley and to embedded systems curricula at his undergraduate alma mater, Cornell University. Tahmid also maintains a popular blog to help budding engineers navigate educational resource scarcity. You can read more about Tahmid’s award at this link: https://pdsoros.org/fellows/syed-tahmid-mahbub/