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February 29, 2024 - HFpeg students win APEC Outstanding Presentation Awards
HFpeg graduate students Firehiwot Gurara and Maida Farooq won Outstanding Presentation Awards at IEEE APEC 2024. Firehiwot Gurara won for
the paper “Wide Operating Range Single-Stage Bidirectional Impedance Control Network-Based Onboard Electric Vehicle Charger,”
co-authored by HFpeg graduate student Dheeraj Etta and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi. Maida Farooq won for the paper
“Mixed Duty-Ratio and Frequency Modulation for a Soft-Switched Inversion Stage of a High-Power-Density Online Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS),”
co-authored by HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi.
July 3, 2023 - HFpeg paper wins JESTPE First Place Prize Paper Award
The paper “High-Performance Multi-MHz Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for EV Charging Utilizing Interleaved-Foil Coupled Inductors,”
co-authored by HFpeg graduate students Brandon Regensburger, Sreyam Sinha, Ashish Kumar, Sounak Maji and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi won the
first place prize paper award from IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE).
June 8, 2023 - HFpeg paper wins WPTCE First Place Best Contribution Award
The paper “A High-Power Large Air-Gap Multi-MHz dc-dc Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging,”
co-authored by HFpeg graduate students Sounak Maji, Dheeraj Etta and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi
won the first place best contribution award at IEEE WPTCE 2023.
March 23, 2023 - HFpeg student wins APEC Outstanding Presentation Award
HFpeg graduate student Maida Farooq won an Outstanding Presentation Award at IEEE APEC 2023 for the paper
“Output Voltage Control via Dynamic Cancellation of a GaN-Based High-Power-Density Single-Phase Transformer-Less Online UPS,”
co-authored by HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi.
July 20, 2022 - HFpeg paper wins TPEL Second Place Prize Paper Award
The paper “A New Approach to Steady-State Modeling, Analysis and Design of Power Converters,”
co-authored by collaborators Mohammad Daryaei, S. Ali Khajehoddin, Javad Mashreghi and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi won the
second place prize paper award from IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL).
June 14, 2021 - HFpeg postdoc wins APEC Outstanding Presentation Award
HFpeg postdoc and former graduate student Sreyam Sinha won an Outstanding Presentation Award at IEEE APEC 2021 for the paper
“Comparison of Large Air-Gap Inductive and Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems,” co-authored with HFpeg graduate
student Sounak Maji and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi.
March 21, 2019 - HFpeg student wins APEC Outstanding Presentation Award
HFpeg graduate student Brandon Regensburger won an Outstanding Presentation Award at IEEE APEC 2019 for the paper
“High-Efficiency High-Power-Transfer-Density Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging
Utilizing Semi-Toroidal Interleaved-Foil Coupled Inductors,” co-authored with collaborator Jiale Xu and HFpeg graduate
students Sreyam Sinha, Ashish Kumar and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi.
March 8, 2018 - HFpeg student wins APEC Outstanding Presentation Award
HFpeg graduate student Ashish Kumar won an Outstanding Presentation Award at IEEE APEC 2018 for the paper “A High-Frequency
Inverter Architecture for Providing Variable Compensation in Wireless Power Transfer Systems” co-authored with HFpeg graduate
student Sreyam Sinha and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi.
July 12, 2017 - HFpeg paper wins COMPEL Best Paper Award
The paper “Multi-Objective Optimization of Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Electric Vehicle Charging”
co-authored by HFpeg graduate students Katharine Doubleday, Ashish Kumar, Brandon Regensburger, Saad Pervaiz,
Sreyam Sinha, CU Boulder collaborator Prof. Zoya Popovic and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi
won the best paper award at IEEE COMPEL 2017.
September 21, 2016 - HFpeg student wins ECCE Best Demo Award
HFpeg graduate student Ashish Kumar won the Best Student Demo Award at IEEE ECCE 2016
for a high power density impedance control network dc-dc converter utilizing an integrated magnetic structure.
September 20, 2016 - HFpeg paper wins IEEE Industry Applications Paper Award
The paper “High Efficiency Impedance Control Network Resonant DC-DC Converter with Optimized Startup Control”
co-authored by HFpeg graduate student Jie Lu and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi won the first prize paper award for 2016
from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems (RES) Committee.
June 30, 2016 - HFpeg paper wins COMPEL Best Paper Award
The paper “Design of Efficient Matching Networks for Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems”
co-authored by HFpeg graduate students Sreyam Sinha, Ashish Kumar, Saad Pervaiz, Brandon Regensburger
and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi won the best paper award at IEEE COMPEL 2016.
March 24, 2016 - HFpeg students win APEC Outstanding Presentation Awards
Three HFpeg graduate students Colin McHugh, Saad Pervaiz and Alihossein Sepahvand won Outstanding Presentation Awards
at IEEE APEC 2016. Another graduate student, Samantha Gunter, co-advised by HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi also won an
Outstanding Presentation Award at APEC 2016.
March 19, 2015 - HFpeg student wins APEC Outstanding Presentation Award
HFpeg graduate student Jie Lu won an Outstanding Presentation Award at IEEE APEC 2015 for the paper “Impedance Control
Network Resonant dc-dc Converter for Wide-Range High-Efficiency Operation” co-authored with MIT collaborator Prof. David Perreault
and HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi.
September 18, 2014 - HFpeg student wins ECCE Best Demo Award
HFpeg graduate student Saad Pervaiz won the Best Student Demo Award at IEEE ECCE 2014 for an electrolytic-free offline LED driver
that uses a ceramic-capacitor-based compact stacked switched capacitor (SSC) energy buffer. Team members on this
project included HFpeg graduate student Yu Ni and MIT graduate student Minjie Chen co-advised by HFpeg PI Prof. Khurram Afridi.
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