2025: IEEE Fellow
Prof. Drazen Dujic has been elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow, effective 01.01.2025, with the following citation “for contributions to medium-voltage high-power solid-state conversion”.
2024: IEEE-PEMC, Pilsen, Czechia
Prof. Drazen Dujic received the Istvan Nagy Award for his contribution to the “research and development of high-power electronics technologies for medium-voltage applications”. The award was presented PEMC Council, at the 21st International IEEE Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control in Pilsen, Czechia.
2024: IPEMC – ECCE Asia, Chengdu, China
The paper by Renan Pillon Barcelos, Nikolina Djekanovic, and Drazen Dujic “Static and dynamic voltage balancing for an IGCT-based resonant DC transformer” has received the First Prize Best Paper Award. The award was presented at the IPEMC – ECCE Asia conference in Chengdu, China.
2024: APEC, Long Beach, California
Dr. Andrea Cervone received the Best Presentation Award for his paper “Stability analysis of second-order harmonic active filters for input-series/output-parallel solid state transformers” at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition – APEC2024, Long Beach, California.
2023: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
The journal paper by Ignacio Polanco and Drazen Dujic, “Condition health monitoring of modular multilevel converter submodule capacitors,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 3544-3554, March 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2021.3118602, has received the Second Place Prize Paper Award by IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
2023: PCIM Europe, Nürnberg, Germany
Dr. Andrea Cervone has received an Outstanding Presentation Award for his paper “Coupling dynamics of second-order harmonic active filters in single-phase input-series/output-parallel AC-DC converters”. The award was presented at the PCIM Europe conference in Nürnberg, Germany.
2022: PCIM Asia, Shanghai, China
Dr. Chengmin Li has received the Young Engineer Award for his work and paper “Short circuit protection of SiC MOSFET module with extended short circuit withstanding time”. The award was presented at the PCIM Asia conference in Shanghai, China.
2022: PCIM Europe, Nürnberg, Germany
Ms. Nikolina Djekanovic has received the Best Paper Award for her paper “Design Optimization of a MW-level Medium Frequency Transformer”. The award, sponsored by SEMIKRON, was presented at the PCIM Europe conference in Nürnberg, Germany.
2021: SEMIKRON Young Engineer Award
Dr. Jakub Kucka received a SEMIKRON Young Engineer Award for his work on “Quasi two-level PWM operation for modular multilevel converters” during his Ph.D. studies at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
2020: ITEC2020, Chicago, Illinois
Mr. Seongil Kim has received the Student Paper Award for his paper “De-excitation characterisation for power supply protection in DC shipboard power systems”. The award has been presented at the 2020 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC2020) held online (originally planned for Chicago, Illinois).
2020: EPE’20 ECCE Europe, Lyon, France
Dr. Jakub Kucka has been awarded the 2020 EPE Outstanding Young EPE Member Award. The award has been presented at EPE’20 ECCE-Europe Conference held online (originally planned for Lyon, France).
2019: EDEE Thesis Distinction
Dr. Min Luo has been awarded the EDEE Thesis Distinction by the Doctoral School in Electrical Engineering for his PhD thesis titled “Dynamic Modeling of Magnetic Components or Circuit Simulations of Power Electronic Systems”
2019: IEEJ Tokyo Section, Niigata Chapter Technical Meeting
Mr. Nicolai Hildebrandt has received the IEEE Shin-etsu Section Young Researcher Presentation Award for his paper “Parallel Operation of Multiple Single-Phase Three-Wire Inverters in Off-Grid Mode” at the IEEJ Tokyo Section, Niigata Chapter Technical Meeting in Nagaoka, Japan.
2018: EPE’18 ECCE-Europe, Riga, Latvia
Prof. Drazen Dujic has received the EPE Outstanding Service Award from the European Power Electronics and Drives Association (EPE). The award has been presented at the EPE18 ECCE-Europe Conference held in Riga, Latvia.
2018: APEC, San Antonio, Texas
Mr. Min Luo received the Outstanding Presentation Award for his paper “Permeance-based modeling of magnetic hysteresis with inclusion of eddy current effect” at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition – APEC2018, San Antonio, Texas.
2017: EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Drazen Dujic has received the Best Teacher Award for the Electrical and Engineering section (SEL) for 2017.
2016: APEC, Long Beach, California
Dr. Francisco Freijedo has been named as one of ten Outstanding Reviewers. He has received a certificate of appreciation from the Editors-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
2015: IECON, Yokohama, Japan
Mr. Min Luo received the Best Presentation Recognition Award for his paper “Permeance-based modelling of the core corners considering magnetic material nonlinearity” at the 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON2015, Yokohama, Japan.
2014: IPEC, Hiroshima, Japan
Prof. Drazen Dujic has received the Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Power Electronics. The award was presented during the International Power Electronics Conference IPEC-Hiroshima 2014, Hiroshima, Japan.