The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society has announced the 2024 recipients of the society’s awards! Congratulations to them!
IES would also like to express great appreciations to the IES Awards & Honors Committee chaired by IES Past President Terry Martin.

Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award

Recipient: Qing-Long Han

Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Citation: For outstanding and innovative technologies contributions to networked control systems and multi-agent systems and applications to smart grids

Qing-Long Han received his Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, in 1997. He is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia. His research interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, time-delay systems, smart grids, unmanned surface vehicles, and neural networks.
Professor Han was awarded the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the Highest Award in Systems Science and Engineering, and Cybernetics), and the 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the Highest Award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia). He was the recipient of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2022, 2020, and 2019, respectively, The IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award in 2020, and the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award in 2020.
Professor Han is a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (FIFAC), an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (HonFIEAust), and a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (FCAA). He is a Highly Cited Researcher in both Engineering and Computer Science (Clarivate). He was one of Australia’s Top 5 Lifetime Achievers (Research Superstars) in the discipline area of Engineering and Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science (The Australian’s Research Magazine, 2019-2020). He has served as an AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Member of IEEE IES Fellows Committee, a Member of IEEE IES Publications Committee, Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Network-Based Control Systems and Applications, and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica and the Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems

Recipient: Maryam Saeedifard

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Citation: For contributions to medium- and high-power electronics

Maryam Saeedifard received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, in 2008. Since January 2014, she has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is currently a professor and holds a Ken Byers professorship position. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was an assistant professor at Purdue University. She is the recipient of Roger Webb’s Excellence in Mentorship Award from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2023, the 8th Nagamori Awards from Nagamori Foundation in 2022, Roger Webb’s Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2021, U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Technology Research & Innovation Award from the Department of Energy in 2021, First Place Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2023, 2022 and 2021, Best Transactions Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2018 and 2016, IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award in 2018, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers in Engineering in Education in 2012, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers in Engineering in 2011, and IEEE Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronic Engineer Award in 2010. She is an IEEE Fellow and is currently serving as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics and the director of faculty evaluation and recognition in the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. Her research interests include power electronics and its applications in terrestrial and mobile power systems.

Rudolf Chope Research & Development Award

Recipient: Oscar Lucia

University of Zaragoza, Spain – Young Academy of Spain, Spain

Citation: For contributions to power conversion for induction heating

Óscar Lucía (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
During 2006 and 2007 he held a research internship at the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group. Since 2008, he has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where he is currently a Full Professor. He was a visiting scholar in the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES, Virginia Tech. USA) in 2009 and 2012, and the TU Berlin (Germany) in 2019. His main research interests include resonant power conversion, wide-bandgap devices, and digital control, mainly applied to wireless power transfer, induction heating, electric vehicles, and biomedical applications. In these topics, he has published more than 100 international journal papers and 200 conference papers, and he is a co-inventor in more than 60 patent families with over 150 international extensions.
Dr. Lucía is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A). He is a Fellow and President of the Young Academy of Spain. Dr. Lucia is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (Society News Editor), and the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society.
He has received the “2021 Agustín de Betancourt y Molina Award” by the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, the “2020 IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine Best Paper Award”, the 2023 IEEE CPE/Powereng “Best Paper Award”, the 2009 and 2018 “BSH Industrial Innovation Award”, and the “2021 SAMCA Chair Multidisciplinary Award”, among others. Dr. Lucía is the recipient of the “Leonardo” Scholarship by BBVA foundation.

IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award

Recipient: Mohammad Shadmand

University of Illinois Chicago, USA

Citation: For outstanding contributions to the resiliency and cybersecurity of power electronics dominated grids

Mohammad B. Shadmand earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, USA, in 2015. He then served as a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M from 2015 to 2016, and as a research engineer from 2016 to 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University, USA. From 2020 to 2024, Dr. Shadmand was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he also served as the Director of the Intelligent Power Electronics at Grid Edge (IPEG) Research Laboratory. Since 2024, Dr. Shadmand has been an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.
His current research interests include resilient control of power electronics dominated grids, resilient self-driving grid, collaborative control architecture for network of grid-following and grid-forming inverters, applications of machine learning techniques for inverters dominated power systems, situational awareness and intrusion detection systems for power electronics and smart grid. He has published more than 160 journal and conference papers, 3 book chapters, and has secured more than 15 research grants and industrial projects from esteemed sources such as the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, and Qatar National Research Fund. Dr. Shadmand has also delivered over 15 invited seminars, talks, and lectures at various universities and conferences on these research topics. He is the General Co-Chair of the 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE IECON 2024), Chicago, USA. He is the Technical Program Co-Chair of 19th IEEE CPE-POWERENG 2025, Antalya, Turkey. He served as Technical Program Chair of IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid & Renewable Energy (IEEE SGRE), Qatar in 2019, 2022, and 2024. In 2022, he has served as Guest Editor for special section on artificial intelligence & machine learning applications in smart inverters of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. In 2018, he has served as Guest Editor for special issue on Challenges in Future Grid-Interactive Power Converters: Control Strategies, Optimal Operation, and Corrective Actions in IET Renewable Power Generation. He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS on INDUSTRY APPLICATION. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IET Renewable Power Generation.

IEEE IES Best Chapter Award

IEEE Nanjing Section IES Chapter

Citation: For recognition of Outstanding Chapter Activity in 2023

IEEE IES Best Student Branch Chapter Award

IEEE La Trobe University Student Branch IES SBC

Citation: For recognition of Outstanding Student Branch Chapter Activity in 2023