IEEE Fellows

Since 1964, through the IEEE Fellow Program, IEEE has acknowledged those individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement of engineering, science, technology, and society at large. Recognizing the achievements of its members is an integral part of the mission of the IEEE; “Advancing Technology for Humanity”. Only one-tenth of one percent of the voting membership of the IEEE can become an IEEE Fellow, each year. 

The Nominee must be an IEEE Senior or IEEE Life Senior Member in good standing who has been an IEEE member for a cumulative five years (1,825 days) or more preceding 1 January of the year of elevation. Note: IEEE Society Affiliate membership does not apply. The nominee cannot be a member of the IEEE Board of Directors, a member of the IEEE Fellow Committee, or an IEEE member who is prohibited from publishing in IEEE publications. The nominee cannot self nominate.

The nomination period for the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows begins in November, and ends February 7, 2025. PES is looking to increase the number of nominations from our society for the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, particularly in the recently added Standards category. Review the Fellow nomination resources for information on nominations and get ready to submit in November.

For more information on the IEEE Fellow program, visit the IEEE Fellow webpage.

IEEE Fellows 2024

PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2024

(The following are PES Members or were evaluated by PES for election to Fellow)

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher-grade membership.

  • Lorraine Padden– for contributions to development of standards for motor protection and applications in industry
  • Li Qi– for contributions to DC distribution protection and architectures of DC shipboard power systems
  • Giri Venkataramanan– for contributions to control of energy resources in microgrids
  • Brian Welchko– for contributions to electric propulsion systems
  • Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi– for design of intelligent tools for power quality improvement and MPPT for solar energy systems
  • Wei Xu– for contributions to design and control of linear and rotary machines and drives
  • Alessandra Flammini– for contributions to wireless distributed measurements for industrial systems
  • Gabriel Benmouyal– for contributions to digital protective relays for power systems
  • Yijia Cao– for contributions to analysis and control of smart grids
  • Hong Chen– for contributions to economic efficiency equilibrium and risk mitigation in power system operations
  • Ninel Cukalevski– for leadership in resilience enhancement in control and information systems
  • Robert Cummings>– for leadership in power system disturbance analysis and standardization of power system protection and reliability
  • Pengwei Du– for contributions to integration of load resources in electricity market and control of smart grid
  • Mohamed El Moursi– for contributions to renewable energy integration and hybrid power grids
  • Herbert Falk– for contributions and leadership in secure, reliable, and interoperable communication of the electric power grid
  • Normann Fischer– for contributions to fault protection methodologies for electric power grids
  • Vahan Gevorgian– for contributions to the wind and solar photovoltaics in grids
  • Qinglai Guo– for contributions to system-wide voltage control in power systems
  • Gene Henneberg– for contributions to electric power system integrity protection schemes
  • Michael Heyeck– for contributions to development of advanced high-voltage power system technology
  • Takashi Hiyama– for contributions to intelligent power systems
  • Jun Liang– for contributions to DC grid’s modeling and control
  • S M Muyeen– for contributions to stable grid-interfaced renewable energy conversion and control
  • Tom Prevost– for contributions to life estimation of transformer insulation systems
  • Veronika Rabl– for contributions to the design of demand response resources and electrification
  • Michael Ropp– for contributions to distributed energy resources integration in power systems
  • Joseph Rostron– for leadership in power switching interrupter design and development of circuit breakers and switchers
  • Kai Sun– for contributions to power grid stability analysis and control
  • Maria Tavares– for contributions to single-phase and three-phase auto-reclosing switching of transmission lines
  • Marianna Vaiman– for contributions to transmission and distribution grids
  • Jianzhong Wu– for contribution to multi-energy systems and peer-to-peer energy trading/li>
  • Xiaorong Xie– for contributions to analysis of subsynchronous resonance in electrical power systems
  • Pei Zhang– for contributions to computational methods for smart control centers and probability-based planning and operation
  • Jim Zheng– for contributions to energy storage technologies
  • Tongxin Zheng– for contributions to electricity market design and its operational method
  • Zheng Zhou– for contributions to electromagnetic transients simulation and the study of HVDC dynamics
  • Dong-choon Lee– for contributions to energy conversion technology and systems
  • Byoung Kuk Lee– for contributions to battery chargers for electric vehicles
  • Li Ran– for contributions to the modeling of power electronic devices
  • Bo Zhang– for contributions to nonlinear analysis in power electronics

 

IEEE Fellows 2023

PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2023

(The following are PES Members or were evaluated by PES for election to Fellow) 
 

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher grade membership.
 

Nima Amjady– for contributions to uncertainty modeling and forecasting for power systems

Hassan Bevrani– for contributions to microgrid control

Zhaohong Bie– for contributions to power system reliability and resilience

Yonghong Chen– for contributions in wholesale electricity market design and operations

Paul Denholm– for contributions to energy storage in renewable-energy systems

Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia– for contributions to distributed control and uncertainty analysis of electrical energy systems

David Hart– for contribution to the development of the smart grid

Bernard Lesieutre– for contributions to electric power system dynamic modeling, simulation and power engineering education

Pierluigi Mancarella– for contribution to power system resilience and multi-energy systems

Michael Negnevitsky– for contributions to application of AI techniques for control of isolated hybrid power systems

Christian Rehtanz– for contributions to wide area monitoring, protection and control systems for electrical power grids

Toshiaki Rokunohe– for contributions to eco-friendly compact and reliable high-voltage equipment

Tomonobu Senjyu– for contributions to wind-power generator automation and control

Wanxing Sheng– for contributions to safe operation and coordinated control of smart power distribution systems

Konstantin Staschus– for the institutionalization of Europe-wide joint transmission grid planning

Stefan Tenbohlen– for contributions to leadership in power transformer reliability

Subramanian V Vadari– for leadership in electric power system planning and markets

Eiichi Zaima– for leadership in ultra-high voltage transmission technology and international standards

Javad  Lavaei– for contributions to nonlinear optimization in power systems

Howard Sedding– for contributions to practical partial discharge testing of electrical equipment

Pierre Verlinden– for leadership in high performance silicon solar cell and photovoltaics technology and commercialization

Bilal Akin– for contributions to control, diagnosis and condition monitoring of AC drives

Chengxiong Mao– for leadership in active control of power systems and its industrial applications

Kashem Muttaqi– for contribution to modeling and control of renewable and distributed energy resources

Fei Gao– for contributions to real-time simulation and control techniques for fuel cells and power converters

Zhiwei Gao– for contributions to real-time diagnosis and control of wind turbine systems

Hoay Gooi – for contributions to energy storage in microgrids

Zhigang Liu – for contributions to fault detection and protection in high-speed railway power systems

Richard Lanza – for developing novel imagers and radiation detectors applied to medicine and security problems

Ali Davoudi – for contributions to power-electronic dominant microgrid control

Marta Molinas – for contributions to modeling and stability of power electronics

Xiongfei Wang – for contributions to power-electronic-based power systems

Song Ci – for contributions to reconfigurable electric vehicle batteries

IEEE Fellows 2022

PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2022

(The following are PES Members or were evaluated by PES for election to Fellow)

 

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher grade membership.

 

Abdolhosein Nasiri – for contributions to high power converters for energy storage systems and microgrids

Anurag Srivastava – for contributions to electric grid resiliency

Babak Nahid-mobarakeh – for contributions to service continuity of electric motor drive systems

Bulent Sarlioglu – for applications of electrical drives in the aerospace industry

Chul-hwan Kim – for contribution to protective relaying methods to reduce power system outages

Donald Dunn – for contributions to process control systems

Gianmario Pellegrino – for contributions to Synchronous Reluctance machines identification and control

Joao Paulo Catalao – for contributions to power system operations and demand response

Kiyohisa Terai – for contribution to optical fiber sensors and electrical discharge applications

Le Xie – for contributions to economic and secure operations of power systems and big data analytics

Lei Wu – for contributions to stochastic modeling and optimization of power systems and large interdependent infrastructures

Liangzhong Yao – for leadership in HVDC grid supporting integration of large wind farms

Lingling Fan – for contributions to stability analysis and control of inverter-based resources

Mario Paolone – for contributions to situational-awareness and control of power distribution systems

Marjan Popov – for contributions to high-frequency transformer and circuit breaker modeling

Maryam Saeedifard – for contributions to modulation, control and protection of multilevel converters for high-voltage DC transmission

Mikhail Vaiman – for contributions to methods and software for real-time analysis and control of electric power systems

Mladen Sasic – for contributions to develpment of diagnostics testing of motor and generator windings

Mukesh Nagpal – for contributions to economic and safe integration of distributed renewables in electric utility networks

Qi Huang – for leadership in informatics for smart electric energy system

Rajapandian Ayyanar – for contributions to power conversion and grid integration of renewable resources

Richard Tabors – for development of technologies for real-time locational pricing of electricity for efficient electric power markets

Satish Ranade – for contributions to integration of renewable and distributed energy resources into power systems

Subhashish Bhattacharya – for contributions to power conversion systems and active power filters

Tianshu Bi – for contributions to synchrophasor technology and protective relay applications

Trevor Maguire – for leadership in the development of large scale real-time power systems simulators

Tseng King Jet – for contributions to permanent magnet machines and distributed energy resources

IEEE Fellows 2021

PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2021

(The following are PES Members or were evaluated by PES for election to Fellow)

 

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher grade membership.

 

Enrique Acha – for contributions to power electronics modelling and applications in electrical power systems

Alireza Bakhshai – for contributions to the development of synchronization techniques for power electronics converters

Oriol Gomis Bellmunt – for contributions to grid integration of renewable energy sources

Yaow-Ming Chen – for contributions to grid-connected power converters for renewable energy applications

Vasilis Fthenakis – for contributions to photovoltaics technology

Wenzhong Gao – for contributions to grid integration of wind power and electric vehicle technology

Hua Geng – for contribution to control of renewable energy power converters

Yongpei Guan – for contributions to robust and stochastic optimization for power system operations

 Dragan Jovcic – for contributions to improvements in multi-terminal HVDC transmission grids and development of HVDC transformers

Ning Lu – for contributions to load modeling and control methods for providing demand side grid services

Giovanni Mazzanti – for contributions to high voltage direct current cable systems

Sanjib Panda – for contributions to iterative learning control of motor drives

Leila Parsa – for contributions to control of multi-phase permanent magnet electrical drives

Jacquelien Scherpen – for contributions to nonlinear model reduction and passivity-based control

Kalyan Sen – for the development and application of power flow control technology

Ramteen Sioshansi – for contributions to energy storage in electric power systems

 Poul Sørensen – for contributions to wind power converter control and grid integration

Suresh Srivastava – for contributions to power system security and stability

Shinzo Tamai – for contributions to control for motor drives and three-level converters

Mi-Ching Tsai – for leadership in magnetic materials for the electric motor industry

Mohammad Uddin – for contributions to control techniques for AC motor drives

Ganesh Venayagamoorthy – for contributions to the application of artificial intelligence to power systems

Jianhui Wang – for contributions to unit commitment and economic dispatch with renewable generation

 Jin Wang – for development of high density power converters and their use in electric cars

 Zhongdong Wang –for contributions to insulating liquids and frequency response analysis methods for power transformers

Fushuan Wen – for contributions to fault diagnosis in power grids

Wenchuan Wu – for contributions to energy management, operations, and control

Zheng Xu – for contributions to control and modeling of modular multilevel converter based HVDC transmission systems

Hamidreza Zareipour – for contributions to the modeling of energy storage for system operation and planning 

Jizhong Zhu – for application of optimization methods for real-time economic power system operation

IEEE Fellows 2020

PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2020

(The following are PES Members or were evaluated by PES for election to Fellow)

 

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher grade membership.

 

José M. Arroyo – for contributions to generation scheduling for electricity markets

Luiz Augusto Nobrega Barroso – for leadership in analytical methods for power system economics and regulation

Mohamed Benbouzid – for contributions to diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of electric machines and drives

Sukumar Brahma – for contributions to power system protection with distributed and renewable generation

Mark Carpenter – for leadership in standards development for power system protection

Venkata Dinavahi – for contributions to real-time simulation of power systems with embedded power electronic converters

Sonja Glavaski – for leadership in energy systems

John W. Harley – for development of monitoring and pump bearing systems for power transformers

Jinghan He – for contributions to the protection of substations and traction power

Jan Izykowski – for contributions to fault localization in power lines

Gerard Ledwich – for development of control of power systems and power electronics

Yunwei (Ryan) Li – for contributions to power electronics converters in microgrids and industrial drives

Jim McDowall – for leadership in stationary battery standards and energy storage industry

Hamed Mohsenian-Rad – for contributions to optimal resource management in wireless networks and the smart grid

Pierre Pinson – for contributions to wind forecasting techniques in renewable energy integration

Wei Qiao – for contributions to condition monitoring and control of power electronics interfaced rotating machine systems

Hong Rao – for leadership and contributions to the design and application of HVDC in AC/DC grids

Kenneth Ridley for contribution to stator core insulation condition analysis in large hydroelectric generators

Kevin P. Schneider – for contributions to the development of open-access tools for distribution system analysis

Dipti Srinivasan – for contributions to computational intelligence for Smart Grid

Narasimham Vempati – for contributions to power system state estimation and transmission congestion markets

Yan Zhang – for contributions to resource management in wireless networks

Yi Zhang – for leadership in the development of real time digital simulation in power systems

Yingjun Zhang – for contributions to resource allocation and optimization in wireless communications

Xiao-Ping Zhang – for contributions to modeling and control of high-voltage DC and AC transmission systems

IEEE Fellows 2019

PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2019

(The following are PES Members or were evaluated by PES for election to Fellow)

 

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher grade membership.

 

Yoshihiro Baba – for contributions to electromagnetic modeling of lightning

Patrick Chapman – for application of power electronics devices and systems for solar energy conversion

Zhe Chen – for contributions to power electronics for wind energy conversion
Thomas J. Dionise – 
for contributions to mitigation of transients and harmonics in power systems

David George Dorrell – for contributions to time efficient design methodology of rotating electrical machines

Jiyuan Fan – for leadership in applications for power distribution systems

Claudio R. Fuerte-Esquivel – for contributions to modeling, analysis and operation of Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems

Timothy Green – for contributions to power electronics for power systems control
Syed Islam – 
for contributions to wind energy conversion systems

Shrikrishna V. Kulkarni – for contributions to transformer engineering education

Seung-Jae Lee – for contributions to power distribution protection and automation

Charles Mc Shane – for leadership in safety, performance, and sustainability of power transformers

Joydeep Mitra – for contributions to the development of power system reliability methods

Sasan Mokhtari – for leadership in energy industry technology solutions

Milorad Papic – for contributions to probabilistic planning methods to mitigate cascading of the bulk power system

Tapan Kumar Saha – for contributions to monitoring and assessment of power transformers

Jonathan Sykes – for leadership in the application and management of reliable protection systems for electric power networks

Guangning Wu – for contributions to traction power supply equipment diagnostics for high-speed electrified railways

Baohui Zhang – for contributions to power system transient stability prediction

IEEE Fellows 2018

PES Members elected to the IEEE Fellows Class of 2018

(The following are PES Members or were evaluated by PES for election to Fellow)

 

The IEEE Fellow Award is a special recognition for members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher grade membership.

 

Haithem Abu-rub -for contributions to power electronic converters for renewable energy applications
Karen L. Butler-Purry -for contributions to expanding minority participation in power systems education
Leo Casey -for contributions to high-speed power electronic interfaces for grid-tied distributed resources
Sherman Chan -for contributions to power system modeling and analysis tools for protective relaying
Gianfranco Chicco -for contributions to data analytics for smart metering
Ehab El-saadany -for contributions to distributed generation planning, operation and control
James Feltes -for contributions to modelling the dynamic response of power generation systems
Hashem Hashemian -for leadership in developing technologies for nuclear reactor monitoring
Haibo He -for contributions to adaptive learning
Anil Jampala -for contributions to the utilization of synchrophasors in energy management systems
Noriko Kawakami -for contributions to large-capacity power converters and applications
Richard Lukaszewski -for contributions to the application of power electronic devices for variable frequency drives
Zhenqiang Ma -for contributions to flexible and biodegradable microwave electronics
Hideki Motoyama -for contributions to lightning protection and insulation coordination of electric power systems
Hans Peter Nee -for contributions to silicon carbide power electronics and modular multilevel converters
Patrick Panciatici -for contributions to power systems analysis software
Ronghai Qu -for contributions to computational techniques for the analysis of environmental sustainability
Eugeniusz Rosolowski -for contributions to education in power system modeling and protection
Alex Schneider -for contribution to transmission and generation failure modeling
Hongbin Sun -for contributions to algorithms and technologies for energy management systems
Marcelo Valdes -for contributions to improving the safety and reliability of low voltage power systems
Peng Wang -for contributions to power system reliability and hybrid AC/DC micro-grids
Philip Winston -for development of standards in power system protection reliability

2024 PES Fellow Evaluating Committee

When IEEE Fellow nominations are submitted to the Power and Energy Society, the PES Fellow Evaluation Committee is responsible for the preliminary assessment of these nominations. Committee members rank and write reviews for candidates, which they present to the IEEE Fellows Committee, who then further evaluate the nominees. The FEC performs an essential role in the Fellow Evaluation process and IEEE Judges rely highly on their evaluations for an objective and technically informed assessment of the Nominee’s credentials. 

For an explanation of the Fellow evaluation process, watch this video.

*The 2025 PES Fellow Evaluating Committee roster will be announced soon

Chair
Aniruddha Gole, Region 7

Vice-Chairs
Richard Brown, Region 5
Johan H Enslin, Region 3
Anastasios Bakirtzis, Region 8
Kankar Bhattacharya, Region 7

Evaluators
Shirabe Akita, Region 10
Alberto Borghetti, Region 8
Karen Butler-Purry, Region 5
Raymond Byrne, Region 6
Joe Chow, Region 1
David Hart, Region 3
Gary Hoffman, Region 1
Mukesh Nagpal, Region 7
Mario Paolone, Region 8
John Paserba, Region 2
Paulo Ribeiro, Region 9
Michael Ropp, Region 6
Noel Schulz, Region 6
Suresh Srivastava, Region 1
Subramanian Vadari, Region 6
Dipti Srinivasan, Region 1

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