Keynotes
We are happy to announce that the following keynote speakers will present at the IEEE PEMC 2026.
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Bio: Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. From 2017 he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania in 2017 and Tallinn University of Technology (TTÜ), Estonia in 2018.
His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 800 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of ten monographs and editor of twenty books in power electronics and its applications eg. the series (4 volumes) Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems published by Academic Press/Elsevier.
He has received 46 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019 and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He has been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011 as well as 2017 to 2018. In 2019-2020 he served as a President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has been Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.
He is nominated in 2014-2021 by Thomson Reuters to be between the most 250 cited researchers in Engineering in the world.
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Bio: Johann W. Kolar received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (summa cum laude – promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae) from the University of Technology Vienna, Austria. After spending 15 years as an international consultant and independent researcher, he was appointed Associate Professor and Head of the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 2001 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2004.
Over the course of his career, he has proposed numerous novel converter concepts, including the Vienna Rectifier and the Sparse Matrix Converter, spearheaded the development of x-million-rpm motors, and pioneered fully automated, multi-objective power electronics design procedures. He has personally supervised more than 90 Ph.D. students to completion, has extensively published in IEEE Transactions, is named as inventor on numerous granted patents, and has received several prestigious awards, including the 2016 IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award, the 2016 IEEE PEMC Council Award, the 2025 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, and two ETH Zurich Golden Owl Awards for excellence in teaching.
As Professor Emeritus (since August 2024), he actively continues to pursue research in ultra-compact and highly efficient wide-bandgap (WBG) converter systems, AI and machine learning applications in power electronics, solid-state transformers, and the life cycle analysis of power electronic converter systems. He is an International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and an IEEE Life Fellow.
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Bio: Kyo-Beum Lee is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ajou University, Korea, and a leading researcher in power electronics and electric drive systems. His research covers high-performance motor drives, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, multi-level and multi-inverter systems, and reliability enhancement of power electronic systems.
He has conducted extensive collaborative research with major industrial partners, including LG Electronics and LS Electric, focusing on practical challenges in inverter-fed motor drive systems, industrial power converters, and reliability-critical applications. Through these collaborations, his work has contributed to the development of advanced control, diagnosis, and fault-tolerant technologies that bridge academic research and real-world industrial systems.
Professor Lee has published widely in leading international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and has actively served the IEEE community for nearly two decades, including long-term service as an Associate Editor of major IEEE journals. He is a frequent keynote and invited speaker at international conferences.
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Bio: Akshay Kumar Rathore is a Professor and Director of Power and Energy Research Area in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on power electronics and control of electric motor drives. He is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of several prestigious awards, such as the IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, the Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, the IEEE David Irwin Early Career Award, the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, the Nagamori Award, and the distinguished alumnus award (young achiever) from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India.
Prof. Rathore has contributed to above 300 papers on soft-switching current-fed DC/DC converters, multilevel inverters, and DCM rectifiers, including about 110 IEEE Transactions. He edited a book on advanced concepts and technologies for electric transportation, published by CRC Press in 2022. He has delivered above 200 invited talks, keynotes, and tutorials in several events across the globe. Presently, he is a co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and is serving on the committees of the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, IEEE Nikola Tesla Award and IES Fellow Evaluation Committee. He is a member of the IEEE IAS Society Executive Board and IES Society AdCom.
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Bio: Mariusz Malinowski is a Professor at Warsaw University of Technology, Vice-Rector (Vice-President) for Research. He was a visiting professor in the following institutions: Aalborg University (Denmark), University of Nevada (Reno, USA), Technical University of Berlin (Germany), Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Marıa (Chile), University of Cergy-Pontoise (France), ENSEEIHT - Laplace (France), and ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He has published over 200 papers and numerous books and has been granted several patents. He participated in over 30 research/industrial projects. He has been a reviewer and PhD commission member for numerous PhD theses in Germany, Spain, Denmark, Australia, India, Switzerland, the UK, and Poland. Mariusz Malinowski is a member of the Polish Academy of Science and the Polish Council of Scientific Excellence. He was awarded many national and international research awards, including the IEEE Awards. He was the IEEE IES President (2022-2023) and Chair of the IEEE Poland Section (2016-2019).