IEEE Fellow
A Distinction for Select IEEE Members with Extraordinary Accomplishments
IEEE fellow is the highest grade of IEEE membership that is given only by the IEEE Board of Directors. A candidate must be an IEEE member for at least five years and is currently an IEEE Senior Member.
A nominator is responsible for:
- Determining which IEEE Society's or Council's evaluating committee will assess the candidate's technical qualifications and contributions
- Finding three to five IEEE Fellows that will agree to assess the candidate's contributions and serve as references
- Preparing the formal nomination form
All materials are sent to the Fellows Committee, which reviews all nominations and prepares a ranked list. The total number of Fellow recommendations each year cannot exceed 0.1% of IEEE membership (excluding Student an Associate members).
PELS Members Elevated to Fellows
PELS Fellows in 2025
Peter Barbosa
For contributions to multilevel power conversion in medium
voltage drives
Huang-jen Chiu
For contributions to energy-saving high-efficiency power
converters for sources and loads
Drazen Dujic
For contributions to medium-voltage high-power solid-state
conversion
Mehdi Ferdowsi
For contributions to high-gain converters for renewable energy
applications and to battery management systems
Junichi Itoh
For contributions to high-power density power converters based
on circuit topology
Regan Zane
For contributions to modular power conversion in energy
harvesting, lighting, and electrified transportation systems
Jinfa Zhang
For leadership in LLC-SRC converter design and engineering
applications
Other PELS Members Elevated to Fellows by Other Societies
Circuits and Systems Society
Ho-ching Iu
Industry Applications Society
Xu She,
Industrial Electronics Society
Masoud Karimi Ghartemani; Samir Kouro; Oscar Lucia; Chengbin Ma; Yongchang Zhang
Power & Energy Society
Mike Barnes; Sukumar Mishra; Nirmal K Nair; Caisheng Wang; Amirnaser Yazdani
Solid-State Circuits Society
Patrick Mercier; Makoto Takamiya
