2025
45. Appointed as a Senior Editor in IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
IEEE’s flagship journal in energy conversion, overseeing peer review and advancing the dissemination of transformative research.
44. Invited Webinar at Korea Institute of Power Electronics, North America, June 2025
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Title: New CM EMI Challenges in the Network of MV Power Electronics Systems
43. New U.S. Patent
Patent #: US12273024B2.
Names: Drs. Seungdeog Choi and Ashik Amin
Title: A mechanism for mitigating electromagnetic interference (EMI) in a network of power converters is disclosed.
42. A Special Session Speaker in 2025 IEEE IEMDC, Houston, Tx.
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Title: Rare Earth Free High Speed Electric Machines.
41. Best Student Demo Award in 2025 IEEE IEMDC, Houston, Tx.
Names: Md Moniruzzaman and MD Rashedur Rahman.
Title: Real-Time Control and Comparative Analysis of a Lab-Prototyped Ultra-High-Speed (UHS) PMSM Using MATLAB for Embedded and dSPACE Systems.
40. Student Attendance Awards 2025 IEEE APEC
Names: Mannan, Tahmid Ibne; Moniruzzaman, Md; Rahman, MD Rashedur, and Hasan, Md Zakir
Projet sponsors: National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research.
2024
39. 2024 Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award at Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Contribution: Faculty with significant contributions to their field in the form of scholarship and/or technology innovation, and are developing researchers at all levels (undergraduate, master, doctoral, and post doc).
38. Student Attendance Grant, IEEE ECCE 2024, Phoenix, AZ
Name: Md Zakir Hasan.
Paper: Impact of Environmental Conditions on the Remaining Useful Lifetime of SiC MOSFET
37. A Tutorial Speaker in 2024 IEEE EMC SIPI, Phoenix, AZ
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Title: Common Mode Electromagnetic Interference in Power Electronics Network
36. 2024 Summer Research Internship of Female Highschool Students
Contribution: Exciting activities as part of projects sponsored by National Science Foundation.
35. Successfully Finished a Ph.D Study, 2024
Name: Ashik Amin
Title: Common-Mode EMI Characterization and Mitigation in Networked Power Electronics-Enabled Power Systems
I had the privilege to work with this talented Ph.D. student.
2023
34. One of the exemplary professors at Bagley College of Engineering
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Contribution: Received acknowledgment as one of the exemplary professors based on feedback from distance students in 2023.
33. Successfully Finished a Ph.D Study, 2023
Name: Khurshedul Islam
Title: Design of high-power ultra-high-speed permanent magnet machine
I had the privilege to work with this talented Ph.D. student.
32. 2022 ECE Best Graduate Researcher Award
Name: Khurshedul Islam
Research focus: design of ultra-high-speed machines
Research sponsor: National Science Foundation (Award # 1905434).
Congratulation!
31. Engineering Excellence Award, 2022 Mississippi Championship
Team Name: Hyperspeed Girls
Team affiliation: MSU Partnership Middle School children, consisting of all female children.
Event: First Lego League
30. 2022 Ed Blakeslee Senior Capstone Design Award
Senior design team name: Joy Ride
1st place winner.
29. Technical Session Best Presentation Award, IEEE APEC 2022
Name: Khurshedul Islam, Ph.D. student.
Paper: MD Khurshedul Islam, K. Nishat, S. Choi, and P. Singh, “Comparison of Three-Phase and Six-Phase High-Power Ultra-High-Speed Machine for Portable Mechanical Antenna,” IEEE APEC 2022.
28. Successfully Finished a Ph.D Study, 2021
Name: Moinul Haque
Title: Degradation modeling and degradation-aware control of power electronic systems
It was my pleasure to work with a talented student. Congratulation!
27. Student Participation Support Award, IEEE APEC 2022, Houston, Tx.
Names: Mark Diat and Kazi Nishat
Papers #1: K. Nishat, MD Khurshedul Islam, M. Haque, and S. Choi, “A Novel Speed Controller of Ultra-High-Speed PMSM for A-Mechanically-Based-Antenna (AMEBA),” IEEE APEC 2022. Papers #2: M. Didat and S. Choi, “Simple, Low Cost, Method for Measuring Single Phase Line Impedance,” IEEE APEC 2022.
26. Successful 2021 EcoCar Mobility Challenge
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Contribution: One of the faculty advisors (lead: Dr. Randy Follett). Ph.D. student, Moinul Haque, was the PSI lead. Amine Taoudi, ECE Ph.D student was granted First Place for the Mathworks Model Based Design Award. Amine Taoudi was also awarded runner-up in the Excellence in Leadership Award. Jonah Gandy, ECE MS student, is the graduate team lead for the CAVs swim lane. As a graduate team lead, his team was selected First Place for Best CAV System Testing Award in EcoCar Mobility Challenge.
25. Technical Session Best Presentation Award in IEEE APEC 2021
Name: Khurshedul Islam
Title: MD Khurshedul Islam and S. Choi, "Modeling and Design of a 6-Phase Ultra-High-Speed Machine for ELF/VLF Wireless Communication Transmitter," IEEE APEC 2021.
24. Student Travel Award, IEEE APEC 2021
Name: Khurshedul Islam, Ph.D. student.
23. Best Graduate Researcher Award at ECE department at Mississippi State University, 2020-2021
Name: Moinul Haque, Ph.D. student.
22. 2020 Outstanding Contributions to Teaching Mission in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Contribution: One of the highest teaching evaluation.
21. Best Project Status Presentation, Human-Machine Interface, and User Experience, Video runner, up, and third place Mathworks Model-Based Design Awards, July 2020
Team name: EcoCar Mobility Challenge of Mississippi State University
Congratulations to our team!
20. Best paper award in the first place (IEEE IAS TSC), IEEE ECCE 2019
Name: Mostak Mohammad, Moinul Haque, and Seungdeog Choi
Paper: "A Litz-wire-based passive shield design to limit EMF emission from wireless charging system," in Proc. IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR, 2018, pp. 97-104.
19. South East Conference Faculty Travel Grant, 2019-2020
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Support the collaboration with the University of Arkansas in the area of Electromagnetic field (EMI) research in medium voltage DC grid and electric ship system with the wideband gap power switch (SiC / GaN).
18. Sprit of the Challenge Award, May 2019
Team: EcoCar Mobility Challenge Team of Mississippi State University
Congratulations!
17. Best Presentation Award in a session from IEEE APEC, San Antonio, TX, Mar. 2018.
Name: Zakirul Islam, Ph.D. Student
16. Kalaichelvi & Kaliappan Gopalan Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Graduate Thesis Award, Apr. 27th 2017
Name: Joseph Herbert received
Title:Thermal Analysis of a Permanent Magnet Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor using Lumped Parameter Thermal Modeling”,.
Congratulation!
15. Best Presentation Award in a session from IEEE AAPEC, Tampa, FL, Mar. 2017.
Name: Joseph Herbert, MS student
14. Firestone Research Initiative Fellowship, Mar. 2017
Name: Dr. Seungdeog Choi
Title: Reliability of Wide Band Gap Power Electronics System
13. Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Student Innovative Creative Hands-on Project (SICHOP) Grant
Name:NASA mining team
12. Efficient Use of Communication Power Award
Contribution: Teams of undergraduate and graduate students from throughout the nation demonstrated their excavator robots May 16-20 at Kennedy Space Center during NASA’s 2016 Robotic Mining Competition. UA’s team brought home a win with the Efficient Use of Communication Power Award, for the team that uses the lowest average data bandwidth per points earned based on quantities of regolith mined.
11. Graduate Excellence & Leadership Award from Department of Student Life at The University of Akron, 2016
Name: Sai Sudheer Reddy Bonthu, Ph.D. student
10. Best Presentation Award, IEEE APEC 2016, Long Beach, CA.
Name: Mostak Mohammad, Advised Ph.D .student
9. Stage 2 award from VentureWell, 2016
E-Team (Moinul Haque, Mostak Mohammed, Joseph Herbert, and Seungdeog Choi) got Stage 2 award from VentureWell: VentureWell Stage 2 E-team workshop focused on refining and testing teams' business models and building value for customers. January 2016 E2 cohort: AMProtection – Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fused Machines – Oregon State University, Kinnos – Columbia University in the City of New York, MarginPAT – Purdue University, MEnergy – The University of Akron, Pisces Technologies – University of Missouri, Spectrum – Stanford University (written by Dorn Carranza, Ph.D. MBASenior Program Officer, Entrepreneurship and Venture Development at VentureWell), Jan. 2016
8. NASA team’s activity
posted on the NASA website
7. Student Travel Support Award from Applied Power Electronics Conference, 2016, Long Beach, California.
Name: Zakirul Islam, Ph.D student
6. Winner in multiple fields at the 2015 NASA Robotic Competition at Kennedy Space Center
Name: NASA robotic team
Contribution: built a lunar mining robot through Ohio Space Grant support and has been highlighted as a winner in multiple fields, including 2nd place in the Team Spirit Award out of 46 national university teams, May, 2015.
5. 1st place in cost result in 2015 Formula SAE International Competition in Lincoln, Nebraska
Name: Formula E-Team
Contribution: Built Formula-style electric vehicles
4. VentureWell E-Team award
Contribution: His Entrepreneurship – Team (E – Team), Wenergy: Wireless vehicle charging pad, has been awarded by Venturewell Openmind program and exhibited invention at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., Seungdeog Choi (Academic advisor), Mar 2015.
3. Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Student Innovative Creative Hands-on Project (SICHOP) Grant
Contribution: Non – Curricula Activity team (undergraduate), NASA mining team has won award.
2. The University of Akron LIFE Awards, 2015
Name: Sai Sudheer Reddy Bonthu
Contribution: Outstanding leadership skills, http://www.uakron.edu/studentlife/campusprograms/life-awards/
1. Formula Electric Vehicle Award
Contribution: won support from College of Engineering and from Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department which is the biggest support among all teams in ECE Department this academic year, , 2014 ~ 2015.