Powering Critical Infrastructure for a Clean Energy Transition
INTELEC 2025 Program
Dr. Don Tan
Vice President-Elect, IEEE Technical Activities, 2025
Dr. Tan, with a PhD from Caltech, is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering, and an IEEE fellow. He has served as Distinguished Engineer, Fellow,
Chief Engineer-Power Conversion, Program Manager, Department Manager, and
Center Director in a US Fortune 500 corporation. Unusually prolific as a visionary
technical leader in ultra-efficient power conversion and electronic energy systems, Dr.
Tan has pioneered breakthrough innovations with numerous high-impact industry
firsts and record performances that received commendations from the highest level
of US Government. He has developed hundreds of designs and thousands of
hardware units deployed for space applications without a single on-orbit failure. His
suite of world-class electronics performed flawlessly on the James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST), located one million miles away, achieving world-record-breaking
performances.
Dr. Tan is the IEEE Technical Activities Vice President-Elect 2025, founding President of IEEE Transportation
Electrification Council, Chair of IEEE Fellow Advisory and Oversight Subcommittee, and Vice Chair of IEEE
Industry Engagement Committee. Among numerous others, Don has served as Division II Director, IEEE Board
of Directors; Fellow Committee Chair, IEEE PELS/PES eGrid Steering Committee Chair, PELS Long Range
Planning Committee Chair, Nomination Committee Chair, PELS President, Editor-in-Chief (Founding) for IEEE
Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, APEC (the fourth largest event in IEEE) General Chair, PELS
Vice President-Operations, Guest Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on
Industry Applications, Fellow Committee, PELS Vice President-Meetings, IEEE Chair for IEEE/Google Little Box
Challenge (awarded $1M cash prize), and IEEE/DoD Working Group Chair, developed IEEE/ANSI standards
1515/1573. Don has delivered about 130 keynotes/invited global presentations. He has received more than $30M+
external customer funding for research and technology development. He also serves on many prestigious national
and international award, review and selection committees.
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Dr. Annette von Jouanne, Ph.D., P.E., IEEE Fellow
Professor of Energy Systems
Baylor University
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dr. Annette von Jouanne is an Energy Systems professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Baylor University, and the Director and Founder of the Baylor Energy & Renewable Systems Laboratory. Previously von Jouanne was a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University (1995-2017) where she initiated the Wave Energy Program and was a lead in developing the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC), now known as the Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC). She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University where she also worked with Toshiba International Industrial Division in Houston, TX. Professor von Jouanne’s research includes power electronics and power systems, renewables (with a focus on wave energy), advanced inverters using wide bandgap SiC and GaN devices, electric motor-drive systems, electric and hybrid vehicles and ship-based power systems. Dr. von Jouanne has received national recognition for her research and teaching, she is a registered professional engineer and she is serving on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Impacts of Renewable Energy on the West Coast. Her work has been supported by state and federal agencies including the DOE, ARPA-E, NSF (including CAREER and GOALI awards), EPRI, Navy/ONR, the Bonneville Power Administration and several utilities, United Defense and BAE Systems.
Prof. em. Dr. Johann W. Kolar
Johann W. Kolar received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (summa cum laude) from the University of Technology Vienna, Austria. After spending 15 years as an international consultant and independent researcher, he was appointed Assoc. Prof. and Head of the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 2001, and was promoted to Full Prof. in 2004. During his career, he has proposed numerous novel converter concepts, including the Vienna Rectifier, spearheaded the development of x-million rpm motors, and pioneered fully automated multi-objective power electronics design procedures. He has personally supervised 90+ PhD students to completion, has extensively published in IEEE Transactions, and is named inventor in numerous granted patents filed in the course of international industry research collaborations. He has received several awards, incl. 50+ Transactions and Conference Prize Paper Awards, the 2016 IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award, the 2021 EPE Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2025 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, and 2 ETH Zurich Golden Owl Awards for excellence in teaching. As a Prof. emeritus (since 08/2024), he is actively continuing to pursue research in ultra-compact/efficient WBG converter systems, AI and ML applications in power electronics, Solid-State Transformers, and the life cycle analysis of power electronics converter systems. He is an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and an IEEE Fellow.
Prof. Mark Dehong Xu
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Prof. Phil Krein
Philip T. Krein holds the Grainger Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and is an Adjunct Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University. His current research interests include power systems and high-performance power electronics for data centers and AI systems, infrastructure for electric transportation, and renewable energy integration. He received the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award in 2003 and the IEEE Transportation Technologies Award in 2021. He holds 42 U.S. patents and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Illinois and Oregon, a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.