Fellow Nomination

2026 PES Fellows Nomination Resource Committee

The scope of the PES Fellows Nomination Resource Committee is to promote and increase the number of nominations from PES and identify potential Fellow candidates and nominators, with a focus on fostering nominations from underrepresented communities (e.g., Region, professional sector, gender). The FNRC works closely with Technical Committee Fellow Coordinators to identify more fellow candidates. Below are the committee members for 2026.

  • Babu Chalamala – Sandia National Laboratories
  • Henry Huang – US Department of Energy/Pacific Northwest National Lab
  • Murty Yalla – Beckwith Electric
  • Ram Adapa – Electric Power Research Institute
  • Sharma Kolluri – Entergy
  • Jonathan Sykes – Quanta Technology
  • James McDowell – McDowall Advisors
  • Solveig Ward – Quanta Technology
  • Vahid Madani – GridTology
  • Sandoval Carneiro Jr – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro
  • Maria Teresa Correia de Barros – University of Lisbon
  • Sakis Meliopoulos – Georgia Tech
  • Lingling Fan – University of South Florida
  • Zhaohong Bie – Xian Jiaotong University
  • Jinliang He – Tsinghua University
  • Pengwei Du – ERCOT
  • Marianna Vaiman – V&R Inc
  • Veronika Rabl – Quanta Technology
  • Nirmal Nair – Auckland University
  • Kwok Cheung – GE

Technical Committee Representatives

  • Luiz Augusto Barroso (PSOP) – PSR Energy Consulting and Analytics
  • Anurag K Srivastava (PSOPE and BPSO) – West Virginia University
  • Sukumar Brahma (PEEC) – Clemson University
  • Sheldon Kennedy (Transformers) – Niagara Transformer (retd)
  • Gary Chang (T&D) – National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan