Discover the newly elevated IEEE Fellows Class of 2025 from the Industrial Electronics Society!

Our society is truly blessed with such talented people. Congratulations to them!

 

Hairong Dong

for contributions to the intelligent and autonomous operation and control of railway transportation systems

Hairong Dong received the Ph.D. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2002. She was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 2006, and the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2008. She was also a Visiting Professor with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2011. She is currently a Vice-President of the Shandong University of Science and Technology, a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Qingdao, China, and a Professor with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. Her research interests include autonomous perception, intelligent operation and maintenance, artificial intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, etc.
Prof. Dong is currently the fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation and the Fellow of IEEE. She serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, etc.

 

Chunxia Dou

for contributions to power system control and industrial applications

Chunxia Dou, a professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is the deputy director of Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Active Distribution Network Zero-Carbon Operation Control. She has long been devoted to the research of smart grid and smart distribution network optimization management and operation control, making outstanding contributions to power system control and industrial applications. She has been honored with the IEEE PES (China) Outstanding Female Scientist Award, the Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, and Leader of Excellent scientific and technological innovation team of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
She has presided over and undertaken more than 20 important scientific and technological projects, including Major Programs, Key Programs, General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and sub-projects of the National Key Research and Development Program. She has won two first prizes of the Jiangsu Science and Technology Award, one second prize of the Hebei Science and Technology Progress Award, and four scientific and technological awards from first-level societies. She has published over 200 high-level academic papers and won high-impact papers in China’s “Power Grid Technology”. More than 90 foreign and Chinese invention patents have been authorized, of which 3 inventions have won the Silver Award of the Geneva International Invention Award. She is currently the Vice Chairman of the IEEE PES (China) Smart Grid New Technology Sub-Committee, an editorial board member of Energy Internet and Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, a member of the Intelligent Energy Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Member of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Network-based Control Systems and Applications, Member of the 1st IEEE PES Power and Energy Education committee, etc.

 

Tomislav Dragicevic

for contributions within control, design and diagnostics of power converter and drive-based systems

Tomislav Dragičević received his M.Sc. and industrial Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he later served as an Associate Professor from 2016 to 2020. In 2018, he was a Guest Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is currently a Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he established the Smart Converter Laboratory.

His research focuses on advanced techniques for the design, control, and diagnostics of power converter and drive-based systems, as well as developing flexibility solutions for electricity markets through ancillary services. Prof. Dragičević serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. He has also chaired the Danish IEEE Joint Chapter for IES, PES, and IAS.
He has received several awards, including the Končar Prize for the best industrial Ph.D. thesis in Croatia in 2013, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2021, and the IEEE IES Early Career Award in 2022. Additionally, he has been recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in both 2023 and 2024.

 

Masoud Karimi Ghartemani

for contributions to synchronization, modeling and control of power electronic converters in dc/ac applications

Masoud Karimi-Ghartemani received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2004. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Faculty Member with the ECE Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. From 2008 to 2011, he was a member of the ePOWER Laboratory, at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Since 2012, he has been with the ECE Department at Mississippi State University (MSU), Mississippi, USA, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include modeling and control of distributed and renewable energy systems. Dr. Karimi is the author of over 150 technical papers and two textbooks. He won the 2020 Faculty Research Award at MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters. Dr. Karimi was elevated to Fellow IEEE in 2025 for contributions to synchronization, modeling, and control of power electronic converters in DC/AC applications.

 

Samir Kouro

for contributions to power converter topologies and control in energy transition

Samir Kouro received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaíso, Chile, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. In 2007 he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at UTFSM, where he is currently Professor. From 2009 to 2011 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. Between 2022 and 2023 he was a Maria Zambrano Research Fellow at Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain. His research interests include the application of power electronics to energy transition applications, such as renewable energy conversion systems (photovoltaic and wind), green hydrogen production, energy storage and automotive applications. He is founding member and principal researcher of the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) and the Solar Energy Research center (SERC Chile). Dr. Kouro has directed over 40 R&D projects, coauthored two books, 15 book chapters, 7 patents, and over 250 refereed journal and conference papers. Since 2025 he is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. Dr. Kouro was included in The Clarivate Analytics 2018 Highly Cited Researcher List and has received 5 best paper awards in IEEE journals in the years 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 and 2008.

 

Oscar Lucia

for contributions to power conversion for induction heating

Óscar Lucía (S’04, M’11, SM’14, F’25) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (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 power conversion applied to domestic, biomedical, industrial and electric vehicle applications using wide-bandgap and advanced digital control technologies. In these topics, he has published more than 300 technical papers, and he is a co-inventor in more than 70 patent families with over 150 international extensions.
Dr. Lucía is a Fellow 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 or has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (Society News Editor), and the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society.
He has received the “2024 IEEE Rudolf Chope Research and Development Award”, the “2020 Agustín de Betancourt y Molina Award” by the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, the “2024 Ramón y Cajal” Technology Transfer Award, the 2020 IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine Best Paper Award, the SAMCA Chair Award to Multidisciplinary Research, and the 2023 IEEE CPE/Powereng Best Paper Award, among others. Dr. Lucía is the recipient of the “Leonardo” Scholarship by BBVA foundation.

 

Chengbin Ma

for contributions to design and control for high-frequency wireless power transfer and hybrid energy storage

Chengbin Ma received the B.S. degree in industrial automation from the East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2006, he was an R&D Researcher with the Servo Motor Laboratory, FANUC Limited, Japan. Between 2006 and 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA. In 2008, he joined the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include battery and energy management, wireless power transfer, dynamics and motion control, and emerging applications in electronic devices, electric vehicles, microgrids, smart grids, and more.

Prof. Ma was the recipient of Research Excellence Award from AirFuel Alliance, USA, in 2019, and Science and Technology Progress Award from China Power Supply Society in 2024. He is an Associated Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2016-2022) and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. He served as Delegate of Energy Cluster (2019-2020), and is currently Delegate of Cross-disciplinary Cluster (2024-2025), IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

 

Yongchang Zhang

for contributions to control of motor drives and converters

Yongchang Zhang received the B.S. degree from Chongqing University, China, in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 2009, both in electrical engineering. From August 2009 to August 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He joined North China University of Technology in August 2011 as an associate professor, and was promoted to a full professor in January 2015. Since August 2021, he is a full professor at North China Electric Power University.

His research interest is control for motor drives and power converters, especially model predictive control. He has published 2 monographs, more than 100 papers in international scientific journals with more than 10, 000 citations in Google Scholar. He obtained a well-established international reputation including IET Fellow, Highly Cited Chinese Researcher, and World’s Top 2% Scientists. He was the recipient of China National Distinguished Young Talent and received three times Science and Technology Awards from Beijing and Chongqing Municipal. He serves as the associate editor of seven international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and so on. He was the Technical Program Co-Chair of 5th/6th/7th IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics.