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2025 Northeast Power Electronics Symposium Agenda
2025 Northeast Power Electronics Symposium
(NEPES) – Nov. 13-14, 2025
Nov. 13, 2025 Day 1 Agenda
Time Description Location
7:30 AM Registration IPB Lobby
7:30 AM Arrival, coffee, pastries IPB 317
8:30 AM Welcome
Prof. Ali Bazzi, UConn
Dean JC Zhao, UConn
IPB 317
8:45 AM Industry Tutorial 1: Wolfspeed
Key Testing Considerations for Migrating from Silicon to Silicon Carbide
IPB 317
10:15 AM Coffee Break IPB 317
10:30 AM Keynote 1: Dr. Suman Dwari, RTX Technology Research Center
Opportunities in Power Electronics for the Current and Future Aerospace and Defense
Industry
IPB 317
11:00 AM Keynote 2: Dr. Igor Cherepinsky – Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin
VTOL Aircraft Revolution Fueled by Electric Propulsion
IPB 317
11:30 AM Keynote 3: Prof. Jian Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Subsynchronous Oscillation is not Necessarily a Subsynchronous Problem
IPB 317
12:00 PM Lunch IPB Lobby
12:45 PM Introduction to the Center for Advanced Engineering Education (CAEE) at UConn IPB 317
1:00 PM Industry Tutorial 2: Mathworks
Power Electronics Control – A Brushless Motor Case Study
IPB 317
2:30 PM Coffee Break IPB 317
2:45 PM Industry Tutorial 3: Safran
Secure Converter and Substation Timing Synchronization with White Rabbit
IPB 317
3:30 PM Keynote 4: Prof. Charles Sullivan, Dartmouth College
Improving high-frequency power magnetics for applications ranging from chip scale to
ship scale
IPB 317
4:30 PM Reception & Poster/Demo Session IPB Lobby
6:00 PM Panel 1: Recap of NEPES Day 1
Moderator: Mr. John Noon, OTIS & IEEE PELS CT Chapter
IPB 317
WI-FI Connect for free to “UCONN-GUEST” or “eduroam” if applicable
Parking Free on both sides of IPB except for vehicle charger fees
Nov. 14, 2025 Day 2 Agenda
Time Description Location
7:30 AM Registration IPB Lobby
7:30 AM Arrival, Coffee, Pastries IPB 317
8:15 AM Welcome
Prof. Ali Bazzi, UConn
IPB 317
8:30 AM Keynote 5: Dr. HanJong Kim, Carrier
Carrier power electronics for HVAC & transport Refrigeration
IPB 317
9:00 AM Keynote 6: Mr. Bill Welsh, Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin
Helicopter Electrical Technology: To Infinity and Beyond
IPB 317
9:30 AM Panel 2: The Path to the 1 MW Server Rack
Moderator: Mr. Brian Zahnstecher, PowerRox
IPB 317
10:15 AM Coffee Break IPB 317
10:30 AM CONPEX Updates IPB 317
11:15 AM Keynote 7: Dr. Shashank Krishnamurthy – OTIS
PCB Embedded Power Packaging
IPB 317
11:45 AM Keynote 8: Dr. Joseph Kozak – Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University
Challenges Developing a Motor-drive System for Deep-space Applications
IPB 317
12:15 PM Lunch IPB Lobby
1:00 PM Expert Presentations:
1. Prof. Georges Pavlidis, UConn
Package to Device Thermal Considerations of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
2. Prof. Jiangbiao He, University of Tennesee – Knoxville
Towards High-Reliability Electric Propulsion Drives
3. Prof. Shan Zuo, UConn
Super Safe and Resilient Control Framework for Networked Microgrids
IPB 317
2:00 PM Panel 3: Immersion and Advanced Thermal Management of Power Electronics
Moderator: Dr. Arshiah Mirza, Shell Techworks
IPB 317
2:45 PM Coffee Break IPB 317
3:00 PM Expert Presentations:
1. Prof. Sam Coday, MIT
Enabling Ultra-Dense Buck–Boost Converters with Monolithic Bidirectional GaN
2. Prof. Sung Yeul Park, UConn
Impedance-Based Diagnostics for Batteries, Solar PV, and Power Systems
3. Prof. Anhar Bhuiyan, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ga2O3 Power Electronics: CVD Growth, Plasma-Free Etching, Devices, and Diamond
Integration
4. Prof. Liwei Zhou, University of Texas at Arlingron
Optimization-based control and estimation for scalable energy conversion of
distributed energy resources
IPB 317
4:15 PM Panel 4: Power Electronics Enabling Extreme Environments
Moderator: Mr. Stefan Bilyk, Triumph
IPB 317
5:00 PM Lab Tours Selected Labs
5:45 PM Reception & Poster/Demo Session IPB Lobby