Awards & Recognitions

2025, Certificate of appreciation in recognition of his outstanding support and mentorship in establishing the IEEE PES/IAS/PELS Student Branch Chapter at the University of Alberta, awarded by IEEE (Gregory Kish)

2024, Best Presentation Award at IEEE IECON (JT Luterbach) 

2024, C.R. James Award for the Best MSc Thesis in the ECE Department at UAlberta, entitled Fault Tolerant Control of a Grid Interfacing Converter for Bipolar DC Distribution, (Daniel Bowman)

2024, NSERC CGS M Scholarship (Daniel Bowman)

2023, URI Undergraduate Researcher Stipend (Minhua Chen)

2023, NSERC USRA (Mikael Schmidtke)

2022, Best Student Paper Award at CIGRE Canada Conference (Manish Persand)

2020, Best Paper Award at IEEE Electrical Power & Energy Conference (Abraham Tarango) 

2019, Outstanding Young Engineer Award for outstanding contributions to teaching and research in the field of HVDC, and for service to IEEE, awarded by IEEE Power and Energy Society Northern Canada Chapter (Gregory Kish)

2018, C.R. James Award for the Best MSc Thesis in the ECE Department at UAlberta, entitled Multiport DC-DC Modular Multilevel Converter for MVDC and HVDC Networks (Sunny Kung)

2018, NSERC USRA (Manish Persand)

2017, NSERC USRA (Nicolas Faria)

2016, First Place Prize Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (Gregory Kish)