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IEEE Power Electronics Magazine
Editor-in-chief
Ashok Bindra
12 Magnolia Ave.
Nesconset, NY 11767 USA
+1 631 471 5895
bindra1@verizon.net
Deputy Editors-in-chief
Ira J. Pitel (Industry)
Magna-Power Electronics, Inc.
39 Royal Road
Flemington, NJ 08822 USA
+1 908 237 2200 ext. 102
ipitel@magna-power.com

Don F.D. Tan
Immediate Past President, PELS
Executive VP, Global Relations
dong.tan@ngc.com

Helen Li
hli@caps.fsu.edu

Dushan Boroyevich
Sr. Past President/Strategic
Planning
dushan@ieee.org

Pradeep Shenoy
pshenoy@ti.com

Alan Mantooth
President Elect
VP Technical Operations
mantooth@uark.edu

John Shen (Academic)
Grainger Chair Professor
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 35th Street, Suite 1600
Chicago, IL 60616 USA
+1 312 567-3352
zjohnshen@gmail.com

Mario Pacas
VP Conferences
pacas@uni-siegen.de

Magazine advisory Board
Braham Ferreira
President
IEEE Power Electronics Society

Jinjun Liu
Executive VP Membership
liu_jinjun@ieee.org

Don F.D. Tan
Immediate Past President
IEEE Power Electronics Society
John M. Miller
JNJ Miller plc
Philip T. Krein
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Robert N. Guenther
NWL
Ira J. Pitel
Magna-Power Electronics
Prasad Enjeti
Texas A&M University
John Shen
Illinois Institute of Technology
Bob White
Embedded Power Labs

Frede Blaabjerg
VP Products
fbl@iet.aau.dk
Peter Wilson
Executive VP Standards
prw@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Hirofumi Akagi
Division II Director
akagi@ee.titech.ac.jp
2016 Members-at-large
Vladimir Blasko
blaskov@utrc.utc.com
Silva Hiti
silva.hiti@gm.com
Dan Kinzer
dan.kinzer@fairchildsemi.com
Mario Pacas
pacas@uni-siegen.de
Pat Wheeler
Consitution and Bylaws Chair
Pat.Wheeler@nottingham.ac.uk
Zhengming Zhao
zhaozm@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

William A. Peterson
E&M Power

2017 Members-at-large
Robert Balog
Robert.Balog@ieee.org

IEEE Power Electronics
society officers
Braham Ferreira
President
J.A.Ferreira@tudelft.nl

Johan Enslin
jenslin@uncc.edu

advertising sales
Walter Chalupa
United States, Africa, Asia,
Canada, Central and South
America, and Europe
Telephone: +1 973 835 7015
Fax: +1 973 835 1602
wchalupa@aol.com

William Peterson
peterson@EandMPower.com

Shinzo Tamai
tamai.shinzo@tmeic.co.jp

IEEE Power Electronics
society staff
Mike Kelly
Executive Director
m.p.kelly@ieee.org
Donna Florek
Technical Community
Program Specialist
d.florek@ieee.org
Becky Boresen
Technical Community
Program Specialist
b.boresen@ieee.org

2018 Members-at-large
Liuchen Chang
lchang@unb.ca
William Gerard Hurley
gerard.hurley@nuigalway.ie
Katherine Kim
katakim@gmail.com
Ernie Parker
ernie.parker@crane-eg.com
Grant Pitel
grantpitel@gmail.com
Seung-Ki Sul
sulsk@plaza.snu.ac.kr

technical committee chairs
John Hawkins
Communications Energy Systems
jmhawkins@ieee.org
Peter Liang
High Performance and Emerging
Technologies
tjliang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Uday Deshpande
Motor Drives and Actuators
udayd@ieee.org
Yan-Fei Liu
Power and Control Core
Technologies
yanfei.liu@queensu.ca
Seth Sanders
Power Conversion Systems
and Components
sanders@eecs.berkeley.edu
Sudip Mazumder
Sustainable Energy Systems
mazumder@uic.edu
Anand Sathyan
Vehicle and Transportation
Systems
sathyan.anand@chrysler.com

Alicia Tomaszewski
Project Manager Transportation
Electrification Community
a.tomaszewski@ieee.org
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Associate Art Directors
Theresa L. Smith
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Business Development
Felicia Spagnoli
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Peter M. Tuohy
Production Director
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Editorial Director
Fran Zappulla
Staff Director,
Publishing Operations

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Mission stateMent: To educate,
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IEEE Power Electronics Society members
on technology, events, industry news, and
general topics relating to consumer
electronics and to further serve and
support our Members in professional
career development through tutorials and
raising awareness of engineering tools
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