Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban received the IEEE Systems Council Outstanding Service Award 2025  “For visionary leadership and outstanding service to the IEEE Systems Council through transformative educational initiatives and global outreach.”

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a IEEE IES senior member involved with Power Electronics Technical Committee (PETC) and member of the Multiphase Drives, Resonant Converter Committee.

IEEE Systems Council Outstanding Service Award 2025 honors long and distinguished service at a level of dedication and achievement rarely demonstrated. The ceremony was held in Montreal, Canada on 9 April 2025 at the 19th IEEE International Systems Conference.

Congratulations to him!

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban (Member’12–Senior Member’15, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2012. He is a Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. S. Padmanaban has authored over 750+ scientific papers and received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award from IET-SEISCON’13, IET-CEAT’16, IEEE-EECSI’19, IEEE-CENCON’19, and five best paper awards from ETAEERE’16 sponsored Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer book. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K and Fellow the European Academy of Sciences (Belgium). He received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who’s Who – USA 2017 for contributing to power electronics and renewable energy research. He is listed among the world’s top 2% scientists (from 2019) by Stanford University USA. He received IEEE Systems Council Outstanding Service Award 2025 for his contributions for visionary leadership and outstanding service to the IEEE Systems Council through transformative educational initiatives and global outreach.

He is an Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board for refereed journals, in particular the IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, IEEE ACCESS, IET Power Electronics, IET Electronics Letters, and Wiley-International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Subject Editorial Board Member—Energy Sources—Energies Journal, MDPI, and the Subject Editor for the IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and FACETS Journal (Canada).

To learn more about the IEEE Systems Council Outstanding Service Award: https://ieeesystemscouncil.org/award/council-award/ieee-systems-council-outstanding-service-award#recipients

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