2026 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Paper Awards announced!
The 2026 paper awards are now announced by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society!
Congratulations to all the authors!
IES would also like to express appreciation to the IES Awards & Honors Committee chaired by Terry Martin, and all editorial board members of IES publications for their work!
Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Haoen Huang, Long Jin, Zhigang Zeng
“A Momentum Recurrent Neural Network for Sparse Motion Planning of Redundant Manipulators With Majorization-Minimization”
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Volume: 72, Issue: 12, pp. 13532-13541, December 2025)
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11008807
Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Chuan Sheng, Wei Zhou, Qing-Long Han, Wanlun Ma, Xiaogang Zhu, Sheng Wen
“Network Traffic Fingerprinting for IIoT Device Identification: A Survey”
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Volume: 21, Issue: 5, pp. 3541-3554, May 2025)
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10891242
Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
Joseph Kiran Banda, Lucas Savoi Araujo, Salvatore D’Arco, Tor-Eivind Moen, Elisabetta Tedeschi
“A Reactive Power Boosting Strategy for BESS-STATCOMs”
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (Volume: 6, Issue: 4, pp. 1258-1270, October 2025)
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10904140
Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society
Mahdis Haddadi, Saman A. Gorji, Samson S. Yu
“An Overview of Inertia Emulation Strategies for DC Microgrids: Stability Analysis and AC Microgrid Analogies”
IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (Volume: 6, pp. 491-521, 2025)
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10923700
Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
Dongmeng Qiu, Mengxiang Liu, Rui Zhang; Tianyu Luo; Antonio Griffo; Xin Zhang
“Cyber-Physical Real-Time Digital Simulation for Cybersecurity Analysis in Microgrids“
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (Volume: 3, pp. 429-441, 2025)
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11003158
Best Paper Award for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
Sohaib Qazi; Ahmed Abdelhakim; Thiago Batista Soeiro; Qianwen Xu; Sjoerd Bosga; Francisco Canales
“Electrified Hydrogen Systems: An Overview”
IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (Volume: 19, Issue: 2, June 2025)
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10930733
Best Conference Paper Award
Guangdi Li, Yaodong Zhang, Hao Gao, Bowen Zho, Zhaoxia Xiao, Alexander Micallef, Maurice Apap, John Licari
“Grid-Forming Converters with Frequency & Voltage Active Support and Distributed Cooperative Control for Active and Reactive Power Sharing”
ISIE 2025 – Toronto, Canada
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11124725
Student Best Paper Award
Haiyang Cao, Yongting Deng, Yuefei Zuo, Xiufeng Liu, Jianli Wang, Christopher H. T. Lee
“A Variable Structure ADRC for Enhanced Disturbance Rejection and Improved Noise Suppression of PMSM Speed System“
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Volume: 72, Issue: 5, pp. 4481-4495, May 2025)
Read the full paper at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10726926