The 2021 society’s paper awards are now announced by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society!
Congratulations to all the authors!
IES would also like to express great appreciations to the IES Awards & Honors Committee chaired by Hiromasa Haneda, and all editorial board members of IES publications for their work!

Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

He Chen, Ning Sun, for the paper “Nonlinear Control of Underactuated Systems Subject to Both Actuated and Unactuated State Constraints with Experimental Verification, ” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 7702-7714, Sept. 2020.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8870254

Jose O. Gonzalez, Ruizhu Wu, Saeed Jahdi, Olayiwola Alatise, for the paper ”Performance and Reliability Review of 650 V and 900 V Silicon and SiC Devices: MOSFETs, Cascode JFETs and IGBTs,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, No. 9, pp.7375-7385, Sept. 2020.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8863134

Cong Xiong, Haiping Xu, Tao Guan, Peng Zhou, for the paper “A Constant Switching Frequency Multiple-Vector-Based Model Predictive Current Control of Five-Phase PMSM with Nonsinusoidal Back EMF,”IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1695-1707, March 2020.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8678665

Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Ruonan Liu, Boyuan Yang, Alexander G. Hauptmann, for the paper “Simultaneous Bearing Fault Recognition and Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Joint-Loss Convolutional Neural Network,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 87-96, Jan. 2020.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8709822

Shuiguang Deng, Zhengzhe Xiang, Peng Zhao, Javid Taheri, Honghao Gao, Jianwei Yin, Albert Y. Zomaya, for the paper “Dynamical Resource Allocation in Edge for Trustable Internet-of-Things Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Method,” IEEE Trans. On Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 6103-6113, Sept. 2020.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9001216

Best Paper Award for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Marco Liserre, Giampaolo Buticchi, Jose Ignacio Leon, Abraham M. Alcaide, Vivek Raveendran, Youngjong Ko, Markus Andresen, Vito G. Monopoli, Leopoldo Franquelo, for the paper ”Power Routing – A New Paradigm for Maintenance Scheduling, “ IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, pp. 33-45, Sept. 2020.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9205668

Tuyen V. Vu, Bang L.H. Nguyen, Zheyuan Cheng, Mo-Yuen Chow, Bin Zhang, for the paper ”Cyber-Physical Microgrids – Toward Future Resilient Communities,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, pp.4-17, Sept. 2020.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9205672

Best Conference Paper Award

Sergio Toledo, Magno Ayala, Edgar Maqueda, Marco Rivera, Tomislav Dragicevic, Pat Wheeler, Raul Gregor, Alfredo Renault, for the paper “Active and Reactive Control Based on Predictive Voltage Control in A Six-Phase Generation System Using Modular Matrix Converter,” Proc. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, pp. 1059-1065.
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9067285

Student Best Paper Award

Vincenzo Madonna (student), Luca Lusuardi (student), for the paper by Vincenzo Madonna, Paolo Giangrande, Luca Lusuardi, Andrea Cavallini, Chris Gerada, and Michale Galea, “Thermal Overload and Insulation Aging of Short Duty Cycle, Aerospace Motors,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no.4, pp. 2618- 2629, April 2020.

Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8709991