Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award
About the Award
The Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the power electronics field by an engineer under 35 years of age. Since 1999, it has been dedicated to the memory of Richard M. Bass of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Award Prize:
- Plaque
- An honorarium of USD 1,500
- Reimbursement of up to USD 1,000 towards the recipient’s necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony
Submitting a Nominee
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Award Details
Recognizing Outstanding Achievements
2024 Honoree:
Christina DiMarino
for contributions to the packaging and integration of silicon carbide power semiconductor devices
Christina DiMarino is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Virginia Tech and faculty in the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). She received the B.S. degree in engineering from James Madison University in 2012, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Her research interests include power electronics packaging and high-density integration of wide-bandgap power semiconductors. She has received five best paper and presentation awards at international conferences and was the recipient of the Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award at Virginia Tech in 2022. She is a Member-at-Large for the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), Chair for the PELS Technical Committee 2 on Power Components, Integration, and Power ICs, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and is a member of the PELS Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee. She has also served on the technical committees for several IEEE conferences, and is a member of the PCIM-Europe Advisory Board.
Eligibility Requirements & Criteria
Eligibility: All IEEE members of any grade who are active in the field of power electronics and less than 35 years of age as of 1 January of the year of the award are eligible. There is no restriction on affiliation, age, gender, IEEE member grade, or nationality.
Criteria: Candidates are judged based on the following criteria:
- Outstanding contributions encompassing a broad range of activities, including innovative product design, project management, research, and teaching
- Outstanding contributions in the multidisciplinary field of power electronics
- The technical disciplines that encompass the field of power electronics, including the analysis, design, development, simulation, and application of electronic devices, magnetics, controls and power circuits for inverters, converters, and motor drives ranging in power levels from fractions of a watt to megawatts
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient Name |
| 2023 | Minjie Chen |
| 2022 | Daniel Costinett |
| 2021 | Yongheng Yang |
| 2020 | Pradeep Shenoy |
| 2019 | Katherine Kim |
| 2018 | Xiongfei Wang |
| 2017 | Ali Davoudi |
| 2016 | Huai Wang |
| 2015 | Zixin Li |
| 2014 | Robert Pilawa-Podgurski |
| 2013 | Yunwei (Ryan) Li |
| 2012 | Samir Kouro |
| 2011 | Jin Wang |
| 2010 | Maryam Saeedifard |
| 2009 | Rangarajan Tallam |
| 2008 | Regan Zane |
| 2007 | Christian Klumpner |
| 2006 | Patrick Chapman |
| 2005 | Ali Emadi |
| 2004 | Philip Carne Kajaer |
| 2003 | Babak Fahimi |
| 2002 | Pallab Midya |
| 2001 | David J. Perreault |
| 2000 | Jose A. Cobos |
| 1999 | Steven B. Leeb |
| 1998 | Frede Blaabjerg |
| 1997 | Vlako Vlatkovic |
Questions?
Please send any questions to the PELS Awards Committee.