5th IEEE International Future Energy Electronics Conference (IFEEC 2021)

Fred Lee
IEEE Fellow,
Former President of IEEE Power Electronics Society,
National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) member
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech

Short Biography of Prof. Lee:

Fred C. Lee received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1968, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1972 and 1974, respectively.

Dr. Lee is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Founder and Director Emeritus of CPES, a preeminent academic center in power electronics research at Virginia Tech. As CPES Director, Dr. Lee leads a program that encompasses research, technology development, educational outreach, industry collaboration, and technology transfer. CPES focuses its research to meet industry needs and allows industry to profit from the Center's research and outputs. The CPES program enables its Principal Plus industry members to sponsor graduate fellowships and provides the opportunity to direct research in areas of mutual interest, as well as the ability to access intellectual properties generated collectively by all industry-funded fellowships on a royalty-free and non-exclusive basis. To date, more than 230 companies worldwide have benefited from the industry partnership program. The center has been cited by NSF as a model ERC for its industry collaboration and technology transfer, education, and outreach programs.

Dr. Lee's research interests include high-frequency power conversion, magnetics and EMI, distributed power systems, renewable energy, power quality, high-density electronics packaging and integration, and modeling and control.

Dr. Lee holds 89 U.S. patents, and has published 310 journal articles and 740 refereed technical papers. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Dr. Lee has supervised to completion 87 Ph.D. and 93 Master's students.

According to Microsoft H index, Dr. Lee is rated among the top three best cited authors for over 2.5 million engineering authors in the world.

Hirofumi Akagi
IEEE Fellow,
Former President of IEEE Power Electronics Society,
Former IEEE Division II Director,
Professor, School of Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Short Biography of Prof. Akagi:

Prof. Hirofumi Akagi was born in Okayama, Japan in 1951. He received his B.S. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 and 1979, in all electrical engineering. In the same year, Prof. Akagi joined Nagaoka University of Technology as an Assistant and then became an Associate Professor. In 1987, he was a Visiting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for ten months. From 1991 to 1999, he was a Professor at Okayama University. From March to August of 1996, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since January 2000, he has been a Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher in power conversion systems and their application to industry, utility and transportation. He has pioneered the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, referred to as the “p-q theory,” which has been applied to power conversion systems and active filters for power conditioning. In addition, Prof. Akagi invented hybrid active-passive filters, the system concept and operating principle of which have been applied to the hybrid active-passive filter used in the Yamanashi test line for Japan’s super high-speed, magnetically levitated train system.
He is a recipient of the IEEE IAS Transactions prize paper award for 1991, and the IEEE PELS Transactions prize paper award for 1998, along with seven IEEE IAS committee prize paper awards from the industrial power converter committee and the industrial drive committee. He was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996, and a Distinguished Lecturer of both IEEE IAS and PELS societies for 1998- 1999. He has been serving as a Member At-Large of the IEEE PELS Administrative Committee since 1999. Prof. Akagi holds many patents and has authored or co-authored more than 70 IEEE Transactions or Journals. Prof. Akagi has received four IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award, the 2018 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, and the IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award.

Alan Mantooth
IEEE Fellow,
Former President of IEEE Power Electronics Society,
Distinguished Professor,
The Twenty-First Century Research Leadership Chair,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Arkansas, USA

Short Biography of Prof. Mantooth:

Dr. Mantooth (S'83 - M'90 - SM'97 – F’09) received the B.S. (summa cum laude) and M. S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990. He joined Analogy in 1990 where he focused on semiconductor device modeling and the research and development of HDL-based modeling tools and techniques. Besides modeling, his interests include analog and mixed-signal IC design and power electronics. In 1996, Dr. Mantooth was named Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Analogy (now owned by Synopsys). In 1998, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, as an Associate Professor. He has received numerous teaching, service, and research awards since returning to the UA. He was also selected to the Georgia Tech Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni in 2002, and the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineers in 2006. Dr. Mantooth was promoted to his present rank of Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department in 2011. In 2003, he co-founded Lynguent, an EDA company focused on modeling and simulation tools. Dr. Mantooth helped establish the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT) at the UA in 2005, for which he serves as director. In 2006, he was selected as the inaugural holder of the 21st Century Endowed Chair in Mixed-Signal IC Design and CAD. Dr. Mantooth has published over 200 refereed articles on modeling and IC design. He holds patents on software architecture and algorithms for modeling tools and has others pending. He is co-author of three books and has served on several technical program committees for IEEE conferences. He is currently serving the profession as Vice-President of Operations for the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Dr. Mantooth is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, and registered professional engineer in Arkansas. Professor Mantooth serves as the Executive Director for NCREPT and GRAPES as well as two of its constitutive centers of excellence: the NSF I/UCRC on GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) and the NSF EPSCoR Vertically-Integrated Center on Transformative Energy Research (VICTER). He also serves as the Director of the NSF EPSCoR GREEN Center for Nanoplasmonic Solar Cell Research.

	Fred Lee IEEE Fellow, Former President of IEEE Power Electronics Society, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow National Academy of Engineering (NAE) member University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech
Short Biography of Prof. Lee: Fred C. Lee received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1968, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University in 1972 and 1974, respectively. Dr. Lee is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Founder and Director Emeritus of CPES, a preeminent academic center in power electronics research at Virginia Tech. As CPES Director, Dr. Lee leads a program that encompasses research, technology development, educational outreach, industry collaboration, and technology transfer. CPES focuses its research to meet industry needs and allows industry to profit from the Center's research and outputs. The CPES program enables its Principal Plus industry members to sponsor graduate fellowships and provides the opportunity to direct research in areas of mutual interest, as well as the ability to access intellectual properties generated collectively by all industry-funded fellowships on a royalty-free and non-exclusive basis. To date, more than 230 companies worldwide have benefited from the industry partnership program. The center has been cited by NSF as a model ERC for its industry collaboration and technology transfer, education, and outreach programs. Dr. Lee's research interests include high-frequency power conversion, magnetics and EMI, distributed power systems, renewable energy, power quality, high-density electronics packaging and integration, and modeling and control. Dr. Lee holds 89 U.S. patents, and has published 310 journal articles and 740 refereed technical papers. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Dr. Lee has supervised to completion 87 Ph.D. and 93 Master's students. According to Microsoft H index, Dr. Lee is rated among the top three best cited authors for over 2.5 million engineering authors in the world.


	Hirofumi Akagi IEEE Fellow, Former President of IEEE Power Electronics Society, Former IEEE Division II Director, Professor, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Short Biography of Prof. Akagi: Prof. Hirofumi Akagi was born in Okayama, Japan in 1951. He received his B.S. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 and 1979, in all electrical engineering. In the same year, Prof. Akagi joined Nagaoka University of Technology as an Assistant and then became an Associate Professor. In 1987, he was a Visiting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for ten months. From 1991 to 1999, he was a Professor at Okayama University. From March to August of 1996, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since January 2000, he has been a Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher in power conversion systems and their application to industry, utility and transportation. He has pioneered the theory of instantaneous reactive power in three-phase circuits, referred to as the “p-q theory,” which has been applied to power conversion systems and active filters for power conditioning. In addition, Prof. Akagi invented hybrid active-passive filters, the system concept and operating principle of which have been applied to the hybrid active-passive filter used in the Yamanashi test line for Japan’s super high-speed, magnetically levitated train system. He is a recipient of the IEEE IAS Transactions prize paper award for 1991, and the IEEE PELS Transactions prize paper award for 1998, along with seven IEEE IAS committee prize paper awards from the industrial power converter committee and the industrial drive committee. He was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996, and a Distinguished Lecturer of both IEEE IAS and PELS societies for 1998- 1999. He has been serving as a Member At-Large of the IEEE PELS Administrative Committee since 1999. Prof. Akagi holds many patents and has authored or co-authored more than 70 IEEE Transactions or Journals. Prof. Akagi has received four IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award, the 2018 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, and the IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award.


	Alan Mantooth IEEE Fellow, Former President of IEEE Power Electronics Society, Distinguished Professor, The Twenty-First Century Research Leadership Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, USA
Short Biography of Prof. Mantooth: Dr. Mantooth (S'83 - M'90 - SM'97 – F’09) received the B.S. (summa cum laude) and M. S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990. He joined Analogy in 1990 where he focused on semiconductor device modeling and the research and development of HDL-based modeling tools and techniques. Besides modeling, his interests include analog and mixed-signal IC design and power electronics. In 1996, Dr. Mantooth was named Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Analogy (now owned by Synopsys). In 1998, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, as an Associate Professor. He has received numerous teaching, service, and research awards since returning to the UA. He was also selected to the Georgia Tech Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni in 2002, and the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineers in 2006. Dr. Mantooth was promoted to his present rank of Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department in 2011. In 2003, he co-founded Lynguent, an EDA company focused on modeling and simulation tools. Dr. Mantooth helped establish the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT) at the UA in 2005, for which he serves as director. In 2006, he was selected as the inaugural holder of the 21st Century Endowed Chair in Mixed-Signal IC Design and CAD. Dr. Mantooth has published over 200 refereed articles on modeling and IC design. He holds patents on software architecture and algorithms for modeling tools and has others pending. He is co-author of three books and has served on several technical program committees for IEEE conferences. He is currently serving the profession as Vice-President of Operations for the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Dr. Mantooth is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, and registered professional engineer in Arkansas. Professor Mantooth serves as the Executive Director for NCREPT and GRAPES as well as two of its constitutive centers of excellence: the NSF I/UCRC on GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) and the NSF EPSCoR Vertically-Integrated Center on Transformative Energy Research (VICTER). He also serves as the Director of the NSF EPSCoR GREEN Center for Nanoplasmonic Solar Cell Research.