Students

• Brandon Regensburger, Sreyam Sinha, Ashish Kumar and Sounak Maji, First Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), 2023

• Sounak Maji and Dheeraj Etta, First Place Best Contribution Award, IEEE Wireless Power Technology Conference & Expo (WPTCE), 2023

• Minjie Chen, Second Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2018

• Minjie Chen, First Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2017

• Katharine Doubleday, Ashish Kumar, Brandon Regensburger, Saad Pervaiz and Sreyam Sinha, Best Paper Award, IEEE COMPEL, 2017

• Jie Lu, First Prize Paper Award, IEEE IAS RES Committee, 2016

• Sreyam Sinha, Ashish Kumar, Saad Pervaiz, Brandon Regensburger, Best Paper Award, IEEE COMPEL, 2016

• Mausamjeet Khatua, IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk (P3 Talk) Award, 2022

• Maida Farooq, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2024

• Firehiwot Gurara, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2024

• Maida Farooq, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2023

• Sreyam Sinha, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2021

• Brandon Regensburger, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2019

• Ashish Kumar, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2018

• Saad Pervaiz, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2016

• Colin McHugh, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2016

• Samantha Gunter, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2016

• Alihossein Sepahvand, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2016

• Jie Lu, Outstanding Presentation Award, APEC, 2015

• Ashish Kumar, Best Student Demo Award, ECCE, 2016

• Saad Pervaiz, Best Student Demo Award, ECCE, 2014

• Ashish Kumar, Best Thesis Award, CU Boulder, 2018

• Minjie Chen, Chorafas Award, Dimitris S. Chorafas Foundation, 2016

• Ashish Kumar, Platinum Research Award, CU Boulder, 2018

• Saad Pervaiz, Gold Teaching Award, CU Boulder, 2018

• Ashish Kumar, Silver Research Award, CU Boulder, 2017

• Ashish Kumar, Platinum Research Award, CU Boulder, 2016

• Jie Lu, Gold Research Award, CU Boulder, 2016

• Qijia Li, ECE Early Career Research Scholar, Cornell, 2020

• Brandon Regensburger, Commercialization Fellowship, Cornell, 2020

• Sreyam Sinha, Ryland Graduate Fellowship, CU Boulder, 2017

• Sreyam Sinha, Ryland Graduate Fellowship, CU Boulder, 2016

• Saad Pervaiz, Graduate Summer Fellow, CU Boulder, 2016

• Dheeraj Etta, Student Attendance Grant, APEC, 2025

• Dheeraj Etta, Travel Grant, ECCE, 2024

• Firehiwot Gurara, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2024

• Dheeraj Etta, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2024

• Syed Saeed Rashid, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2024

• Abdullah Saboor, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2024

• Asna Altaf, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2024

• Syed Saeed Rashid, Student Travel Award, WPTCE, 2024

• Sounak Maji, Travel Grant, ECCE, 2023

• Qijia Li, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2023

• Maida Farooq, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2023

• Firehiwot Gurara, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2023

• Sophia Openshaw, Student Travel Award, WPTCE, 2023

• Raquel Sarabia, Student Travel Award, WPTCE, 2023

• Yuetao Hou, Student Attendance Grant, APEC, 2023

• Dheeraj Etta, Travel Grant, ECCE, 2022

• Maida Farooq, Travel Grant, ECCE, 2022

• Dheeraj Etta, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2022

• Sounak Maji, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2022

• Maida Farooq, Student Attendance Grant, APEC, 2022

• Danish Shahzad, Travel Grant, ECCE, 2021

• Danish Shahzad, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2020

• Mausamjeet Khatua, Travel Grant, ECCE, 2019

• Brandon Regensburger, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2018

• Mausamjeet Khatua, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2018

• Brandon Regensburger, Student Travel Support, APEC, 2018

• Sreyam Sinha, Student Travel Grant, WiPDA, 2017

• Ashish Kumar, Travel Award, ECCE, 2017

• Yushi Liu, Student Demo Travel Grant, ECCE, 2017

• Sreyam Sinha, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2017

• Brandon Regensburger, Student Travel Scholarship, ITEC, 2017

• Ashish Kumar, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2016

• Colin McHugh, Student Travel Support, APEC, 2016

• Ashish Kumar, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2015

• Yu Ni, Travel Award, COMPEL, 2014

Khurram K. Afridi

• Michael Tien '72 Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell, 2023

• First Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 2023

• First Place Best Contribution Award, IEEE WPTCE, 2023

• Second Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2022

• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2022

• Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, Cornell, 2021

• Second Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2018

• First Place Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2017

• Best Paper Award, IEEE COMPEL, 2017

• Goh Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 2017

• First Prize Paper Award, IEEE IAS RES Committee, 2016

• Best Paper Award, IEEE COMPEL, 2016

• ECEE Department Outstanding Overall Performance Award, CU Boulder, 2016

• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2016

• Dean's Professional Progress Award, CU Boulder, 2015

• Werner-von-Siemens Chair for Power Electronics, LUMS SSE, 2008

• BMW Scientific Award, BMW AG, 1999

• Carnation Merit Award, Caltech, 1988

• Elected into Eta Kappa Nu (The Electrical Engineering Honor Society), 1988

• Elected into Tau Beta Pi (The Engineering Honor Society), 1987

• Elected into Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society), 1987

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Caltech, 1987

• Full College Blazer, Aitchison, 1985