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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, February 28, 2024
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    PELS WIE Breakfast - Elevated Engineer: Emotional Intelligence
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    PELS Women In Engineering (WIE) Breakfast (Pre-Registration Required)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    SPEC Steering Committee Meeting
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST
    APEC Student Attendance Support
  • 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM PST
    IS07 - Power Electronics for High Performance Computing: New Opportunities and Challenges Since 2022
    Industry Session Chair: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, PhD (he/him/his) – UC Berkeley
    Industry Session Chair: Minjie Chen, PhD – Princeton University
  • 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM PST
    IS08 - Energy Storage and Integration to Energy Systems
    Industry Session Chair: Victor Boyadzhyan – Arseco Laboratories
    Industry Session Chair: Lingxiao Xue
    Industry Session Chair: Jeff Perkins
    Industry Session Chair: David Chen, SM – Power Integrations
    PSMA Session
  • 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM PST
    IS09 - GaN Auxiliary & Automotive Solutions
    Industry Session Chair: Joseph Khayat – Texas Instruments
    Industry Session Chair: Rahul Joshi – Power Integrations
  • 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM PST
    IS10 - Advances in 3D-Packaging Technology for Power Electronics
    Industry Session Chair: John Bultitude – Kemet Corporation
    Industry Session Chair: Brian Narveson – Narveson Innovative Consulting
    PSMA Session
  • 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM PST
    IS11 - Si, SiC and GaN Performance Switches and Their Role in the Application
    Industry Session Chair: Davide Giacomini – Infineon Technologies AG
    Industry Session Chair: Nare Gabrielyan – Cambridge GaN Devices
    PSMA Session
  • 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM PST
    IS12 - EMI & Magnetics
    Industry Session Chair: George Slama – Würth Elektronik
    Industry Session Chair: Ed Herbert – PSMA
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T09 - Bi-Directional DC DC Converter
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Khurram Afridi – Cornell University
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Enver Candan – IBM
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T10 - Solid-State Transformers
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Sudip K. Mazumder, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Chicago
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Jonathan W. Kimball, PhD (he/him/his) – Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T11 - Inverters
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Matt Woongkul Lee – Michigan State University
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Ali Safayet – Halla Mechatronics
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T12 - Converter & Components Modeling & Simulation
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Kasunaidu Vechalapu – Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Bridget O'Gorman – PESC Inc
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T13 - Control of Power Electronic Converters II
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Jaber Abu Qahouq, PhD – The University of Alabama
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Seungdeog Choi – Mississippi State University
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T14 - GaN Devices
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Jason Neely – Sandia National Laboratories
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Gregory Pickrell – Sandia National Laboratories
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T15 - Power Electronics for Hybrid & Electric Cars
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Rasoul Hosseini, PhD – General Motors
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Zhengda Zhang – TESLA
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    T16 - Magnetic Applications I
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Matt Wilkowski – Wurth Elektronik
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Emre Gurpinar, PhD – Sikorsky Aircraft
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST
    ECCE Asia Coordination Committee Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST
    PELS VP of Products Committee Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    PELS VP of Technical Operations Committee Meeting
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    PSMA Reliability Committee Meeting
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    DE&I Committee Meeting
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    Editor's Open Discussion
  • 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM PST
    Whale Watching (pre-registration required)
  • 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM PST
    Lunch in Expo Hall
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    Advantages of Magnetics' Nanocrystalline Cores: Manufacturing, Applications, and Characteristics
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    DOE-OE’s $2.25M SiC Packaging Prize: How Your Packaging Prototype Could Win Big
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    How to Correctly Select an Oscilloscope Probe for Testing SiC and GaN Power Devices
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    PWM Resonant Converter
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    Source-down package solutions for power MOSFETs
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    The Safest, Simplest and Most Efficient SiC : Analog Devices’ Smart Power Switch
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    To power density and beyond: Breaking through barriers to achieve the highest power density
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST
    PELS Publications Awards Luncheon
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    PSMA Industry Education Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    PSMA Magnetics Committee Meeting
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM PST
     Integration of Accurate Soft-Switching Losses Simulation in PLECS Model – Part 2
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM PST
    High Voltage GaN HEMT (EcoGaN) and SiP Solution for Power Systems
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM PST
    Introduction and Advantages of GaN substrate / GaN epi on GaN substrate at Sumitomo Chemical
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM PST
    QSPICE™: Level-Up on the Next Generation of SPICE Circuit Simulation
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM PST
    Quality is the Foundation of SemiQ
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM PST
    Ultra-Thin NFC And Wireless Power Coils Targeting Wearables & Other Challenging Applications
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM PST
    Using the AVL Universal Inverter to test Simulink-based Control Designs with your Full-Scale Electric Motors via Speedgoat Test Systems
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
    PELS Members' Congress
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PST
    FEPPCON Steering Committee
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    PELS VP of Conferences Committee Meeting
  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST
    TPEL Editorial Board Meeting
  • 1:30 PM – 4:55 PM PST
    IS13 - Datacenter & Telecommunication Applications
    Industry Session Chair: Harry Soin, MASc – AEI
    Industry Session Chair: Richard Chung – ST Microelectronics
  • 1:30 PM – 4:55 PM PST
    IS14 - Powering the IoT with Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer, with Functional Demos
    Industry Session Chair: Brian Zahnstecher, ME (he/him/his) – PowerRox LLC
    Industry Session Chair: Mike Hayes, MEngSc (he/him/his) – Tyndall National Institute
    PSMA Session
  • 1:30 PM – 4:55 PM PST
    IS15 - How Test Catches Up with WBG Power Devices?
    Industry Session Chair: Jaume Roig Guitart, PhD – onsemi
    Industry Session Chair: Stephanie Watts Butler, PhD, PE (she/her/hers) – WattsButler LLC
    PSMA Session
  • 1:30 PM – 4:55 PM PST
    IS16 - WBG & Silicon Power Devices
    Industry Session Chair: Anuj S. Narain, MSEE – Wolfspeed
    Industry Session Chair: Kamal Varadarajan, PhD – Power Integrations
  • 1:30 PM – 4:55 PM PST
    IS17 - Topologies in Consumer Applications
    Industry Session Chair: Francesco Di Domenico – Infineon Technologies
    Industry Session Chair: Alessandro Pevere, PhD – Infineon Technologies
  • 1:30 PM – 4:55 PM PST
    IS18 - Cyber-Resilience of Solid-State Transformer Based Substations and EV Chargers
    Industry Session Chair: Rambabu Adapa – Electric Power Research Institute
    Industry Session Chair: Sudip K. Mazumder, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Chicago
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T17 - POL & Multiphase DC DC Converters
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Sombuddha Chakraborty – Texas Instruments
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Olivier Trescases – University of Toronto
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T18 - Protection & Control for Utility Interface & UPS
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Ravisekhar Raju – Fastwatt
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Jacob Mueller – Sandia National Laboratories
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T19 - High Performance Drives
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Ali Safayet – Halla Mechatronics
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Anup Anurag – Delta Electronics Americas
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T20 - SiC Devices
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Lee Gill – Sandia National Laboratories
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Riya Paul – Wolfspeed
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T21 - Gate Drive Circuits
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Kang Wei – Texas Instruments
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Seungdeog Choi – Mississippi State University
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T22 - Wireless Power Transfer: Topology
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Jungwon Choi – University of Washington
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Regan Zane, PhD – Utah State University
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T23 - Renewable Energy Technologies
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Weiqiang Chen, PhD – ABB
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Chunui Liu – Rivian
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    T24 - Charging systems
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Harish S. Krishnamoorthy, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Houston
    Technical Lecture Session Chair: Sheldon Williamson, PhD – Ontario Tech University
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST
    PELS Day 2024 Planning Committee
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    PSMA Marketing Committee Meeting
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    PSMA Power Technology Roadmap Committee Meeting
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    New Adcom Member Orientation
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    Publicity Committee Meeting
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    IEEE PELS MagNet Challenge 2023 Award Ceremony
  • 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST
    Wednesday Night Social