Sudip Mazumder

Sudip K. Mazumder is a UIC Distinguished Professor and is the Director of Laboratory for Energy and Switching-Electronic Systems (LESES) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), which he joined in 2001. He has over 30 years of professional experience and has held R&D and design positions in leading industrial organizations, and has served as technical consultant for several industries. He also serves as the President of NextWatt LLC since 2008.

He received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001 and his M.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1993. At Virginia Tech, he conducted his doctoral work under the joint supervision of Prof. Dushan Boroyevich, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, past president of IEEE Power Electronics Society, and a renowned leader in power electronics, and late Prof. Ali H. Nayfeh, regarded as the most influential scholar and scientist in the area of applied nonlinear dynamics in mechanics and engineering. He also worked under the guidance of Prof. Fred C. Lee, a Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, past president of IEEE Power Electronics Society, and one of the most influential researchers in power electronics.

Dr. Mazumder was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 for distinguished contributions to the field of multi-scale control and analysis of power-electronic systems and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for his contributions to the analysis and control of power-electronic systems. He is also a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) since 2022. He has also made original contributions to the areas of control of power-electronic systems at the semiconductor device level for numerous and wide-ranging applications in commercial and defense space; high-frequency-link power electronics, including hybrid-modulation-based pulsating-dc-link inverter and differential-mode-converter (ac/ac, dc/ac, ac/dc) topologies for applications encompassing but not limited to renewable and alternative energy, electric vehicles, modular multilevel solid-state transformer, energy storage, offshore wind, and biomedicine; discretized high-frequency and Boolean energy and data transfer; and optically-controlled power semiconductor devices (including optical emitter turn-off thyristor, heterojunction devices, high-gain bipolar devices, and hybrid and monolithic photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS)) and power electronics. He has published about 300 peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, 1 edited book, and 12 book chapters, has 14 issued utility patents (with others pending), and has delivered over 125 keynote, distinguished, plenary, and invited presentations.

He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society (2016-2019), and as a Regional Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society for the U.S. region (2021-2023). Since 2019 he has been serving as the Editor-at-Large for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the leading journal in power electronics. He has also served as the Guest Editor-in-Chief/Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2023-2024, 2013-2014), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2013-2014, 2016-2017), and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (2019-2021, 2021-2022) and as the first Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Power Electronics (2006-2009). He serves as an Administrative Committee Member and a Member at Large for the IEEE Power Electronics Society since 2015 and 2020, respectively, and served as a Chair for the IEEE Power Electronics Society's Technical Committee on Sustainable Energy Systems between 2015-2020. He also served as the General Chair for The 2023 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2023) and serves as the General Co-Chair for 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2024), a premier conference for the exchange of cutting-edge research and developments in the field of energy conversion and power electronics.

He is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society's Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award "for contributions to high frequency link power conversion and control technologies for renewable energy”. He received several IEEE awards/honors, including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Awards (2022, 2002) and Highlighted Papers (2023, 2022, 2018), Featured Article for IEEE Power Electronics Magazine (2023), Featured Article for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2023), IEEE Conference Best Paper Award (2013), IEEE Outstanding Paper Award (2007), and IEEE International Future Energy Challenge Award (2005). He also received Stanford University’s top-2% most-influential-scientist recognition (2022-2023) and Elsevier recognition for being top 2% researcher in their fields for career-long productivity as well as top 2% researcher with single-year impact (2021-2023). Earlier, he received the prestigious U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2005) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2003). He was a National Merit Scholar in India in 1983 for ranking 9th out of about 250,000 students.

At UIC, he is the recipient of the most prestigious awards including the Distinguished Researcher Award in Natural Sciences and Engineering (2020), the Inventor of the Year Award (2014), and the University Scholar Award (2013). Additionally, at UIC, he also received the Graduate Mentoring Award (2023), the Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence (HOPE) Award (2021), the Teaching Recognition Program Award (2011), and the Faculty Research Award (2006, 2008).