Congratulations to the 2026 IEEE PES Fellows Class! We are proud to share that 42 IEEE Power & Energy members were elevated to IEEE 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.

• Emmanuel B Agamloh– for contributions to electric motor test procedures and efficiency standards
• Wahab Almuhtadi– for leadership in fostering industry-academia collaboration and advancing consumer technologies
• Curtis L Ashton– for leadership in expanding the breadth and impact of IEEE battery standards
• Lina Margareta Bertling– for contributions to predictive maintenance models for power system reliability
• Ricardo Bessa– for contributions to renewable energy forecasting and its integration into decision-aid tools
• Rolando P Burgos– for contributions to high-power-density power electronics and stability of electronic power systems
• Saikat Chakrabarti– for contributions to power system state and parameter estimation and networked microgrid protection and control
• Yousu Chen– for leadership in high-performance computing and decision support in power systems
• Chia-Chi Chu– for contributions to distributed control and stability assessment in microgrids
• Jeffery E Dagle– for leadership in guiding the collaborative deployment of wide-area time-synchronized measurements for grid reliability
• Florian Anton Dorfler– for contributions to the control of power systems and data driven control
• Johan L Driesen– for contributions to the integration of renewables and electric vehicles in distribution grids
• Detlev W Gross– for contributions to the development of digital partial discharge measurement methods for electrical apparatus
• Charles Hanley– for contributions to energy access in rural areas, grid modernization and resiliency
• William F Hederman– for leadership in national energy policy formulation and decision making
• Brad W Hoff– for development of high-power microwave technology
• Yunhe Hou– for contributions to theory and decision support tools for power system restoration
• David Howey– for contributions to battery modelling, diagnostics, and management
• Sukumar Kamalasadan– for contributions to management and control of electric grids with inverter-based resources
• Alireza Khaligh– for contributions to power electronics for transportation electrification
• Jonathan W Kimball– for contributions to modeling and analysis of dual active bridge converters and switched capacitor converters
• Abhay Kumar– for technical leadership and contributions to the development of UHVDC Projects and to accelerate Standardization
• Roberto Langella– for contributions to the study of interharmonics, voltage fluctuations, and light-flicker for power systems
• Xiangjun Li– for contributions to operation control and energy management of grid battery energy storage systems
• Bin Li– for contributions to protection and fault ride-through technologies of hybrid AC and DC systems
• Jing Liang– for contributions to evolutionary computation for complex optimization and its real-world applications
• Xiaodong Liang– for contributions to protection of power systems and analysis of electrical submersible pump systems
• Xiaochuan Luo– for leadership in enhancing large-scale grid reliability assessment
• Julia Matevosyan– for contributions in the planning and design of power systems with inverter-based resources
• Brendan P McGrath– for contributions to multi-level converter modulation and controller synthesis for closed-loop converter operation
• Mahesh K Mishra– for design, development and control of custom power devices and microgrid systems
• Taku Noda– for development of innovative methods for power system transient simulation
• Jung-Wook Park – for contributions to integration of renewable energy resources in power systems and experimental verification
• Poorvi Patel– for leadership in monitoring, diagnostics and standards for power transformers
• Feng Qiu– for contributions to computing algorithms for grid operations and resilience planning
• Miriam P Sanders– for contributions to power system protection and communications
• Thomas R Schneider– for contributions to energy policy and leadership in advancing energy storage for grid applications
• Somayeh Sojoudi– for contributions to optimization and learning techniques for complex systems
• Goran Strbac– for contributions to power system modeling and distributed energy resource management towards decarbonization
• Abhisek Ukil– for contributions to grid integration of renewable energy with advanced protection
• Weisheng Wang– for contributions to standardization and application of large-scale renewable energy grid integration
• Zhaoyu Wang– for contributions to conservation voltage reduction and networked microgrids in electric power distribution systems