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PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2024

Congratulations to the 2024 IEEE PES Fellows Class! We are proud to share that 40 IEEE Power & Energy members were elevated to IEEE Fellow.

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher-grade membership.

  • Lorraine Padden– for contributions to development of standards for motor protection and applications in industry
  • Li Qi– for contributions to DC distribution protection and architectures of DC shipboard power systems
  • Giri Venkataramanan– for contributions to control of energy resources in microgrids
  • Brian Welchko– for contributions to electric propulsion systems
  • Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi– for design of intelligent tools for power quality improvement and MPPT for solar energy systems
  • Wei Xu– for contributions to design and control of linear and rotary machines and drives
  • Alessandra Flammini– for contributions to wireless distributed measurements for industrial systems
  • Gabriel Benmouyal– for contributions to digital protective relays for power systems
  • Yijia Cao– for contributions to analysis and control of smart grids
  • Hong Chen– for contributions to economic efficiency equilibrium and risk mitigation in power system operations
  • Ninel Cukalevski– for leadership in resilience enhancement in control and information systems
  • Robert Cummings– for leadership in power system disturbance analysis and standardization of power system protection and reliability
  • Pengwei Du– for contributions to integration of load resources in electricity market and control of smart grid
  • Mohamed El Moursi– for contributions to renewable energy integration and hybrid power grids
  • Herbert Falk– for contributions and leadership in secure, reliable, and interoperable communication of the electric power grid
  • Normann Fischer– for contributions to fault protection methodologies for electric power grids
  • Vahan Gevorgian– for contributions to the wind and solar photovoltaics in grids
  • Qinglai Guo– for contributions to system-wide voltage control in power systems
  • Gene Henneberg– for contributions to electric power system integrity protection schemes
  • Michael Heyeck– for contributions to development of advanced high-voltage power system technology
  • Takashi Hiyama– for contributions to intelligent power systems
  • Jun Liang– for contributions to DC grid’s modeling and control
  • S M Muyeen– for contributions to stable grid-interfaced renewable energy conversion and control
  • Tom Prevost– for contributions to life estimation of transformer insulation systems
  • Veronika Rabl– for contributions to the design of demand response resources and electrification
  • Michael Ropp– for contributions to distributed energy resources integration in power systems
  • Joseph Rostron– for leadership in power switching interrupter design and development of circuit breakers and switchers
  • Kai Sun– for contributions to power grid stability analysis and control
  • Maria Tavares– for contributions to single-phase and three-phase auto-reclosing switching of transmission lines
  • Marianna Vaiman– for contributions to transmission and distribution grids
  • Jianzhong Wu– for contribution to multi-energy systems and peer-to-peer energy trading
  • Xiaorong Xie– for contributions to analysis of subsynchronous resonance in electrical power systems
  • Pei Zhang– for contributions to computational methods for smart control centers and probability-based planning and operation
  • Jim Zheng– for contributions to energy storage technologies
  • Tongxin Zheng– for contributions to electricity market design and its operational method
  • Zheng Zhou– for contributions to electromagnetic transients simulation and the study of HVDC dynamics
  • Dong-choon Lee– for contributions to energy conversion technology and systems
  • Byoung Kuk Lee– for contributions to battery chargers for electric vehicles
  • Li Ran– for contributions to the modeling of power electronic devices
  • Bo Zhang– for contributions to nonlinear analysis in power electronics