WEMPEC Annual Review

Save the Date: May 12th & 13th, 2026

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Engineering Hall

 

The WEMPEC Annual Review is a yearly 2-day conference for WEMPEC members including presentations on ongoing research, tutorials by the WEMPEC faculty, tours through the labs and poster presentations by students as well as extensive networking opportunities.

2025 Annual Review Materials Now Available Online

Recordings of all presentations as well as the posters are now available in the Publications section of the WEMPEC Members website. To see all, filter for Type: “Annual Review” and Year: “2025”. If you have questions or require assistance please email admin@wempec.wisc.edu.

Annual Review Materials

2025 AGENDA

Wednesday, May 14th

7:30 Networking Breakfast
8:00 Opening Remarks – WEMPEC Director Prof. Giri Venkataramanan
8:05 Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Welcome – Prof. Susan Hagness, Chair
8:10 WEMPEC Present and Future – Prof. Giri Venkataramanan

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

8:30 Breaking Barriers in Power Electronics through Co-Designing Devices, Circuits, and Modulation – Prof. Mahima Gupta
9:15 Advances in Electric Machine Design and Control: From Precision Positioning to Industrial Drives – Prof. Lei Zhou
10:00 Feedforward Variable Gain PLL with Disturbance Compensation towards Robust Speed Sensorless Control for IPMSM – Jingjie Wu, Laura Homiller

BREAK – 20MIN

10:40 Power Electronics for Pulsed Power and Renewable Applications – Prof. Jinia Roy
11:20 Development of Advanced Solid-State Marx Generator for High Voltage Long Flat Top Pulse Generation – Hyeongmeen Baik
11:40 Design Optimization of a Single-Phase T-Type Inverter with Bidirectional GaN Devices
Luke Tyler Andersen

LUNCH BREAK – 60 MIN

1:00 Power Electronics Projects – Prof. Daniel Ludois
1:45 A Different Kind of Dual Active Bridge – Patrick Nowakowski
2:05 Bringing Drives to HF-Band Communications – Elijah Berger
2:30 – 5:00 On-Campus Poster Session
4:30 – 6:00 Networking Reception

Thursday, May 15th

7:30 Networking Breakfast
8:00 Opening Remarks – Prof. Giri Venkataramanan
8:05 College of Engineering Welcomee – Prof. David Noyce, Executive Associate Dean

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

8:10 Development and Testing of High-Performance Synchronous Permanent Magnet Machine – Prof. Bulent Sarlioglu
8:55 Development and Performance Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Multi-Module Electric Motor
– Ken Chen
9:15 Two-phase Immersion Cooling of High-Performance Electric Motors – Gokhan Çakal

BREAK – 25MIN

10:00 GaN & AlGaN Channel Based High Voltage (>600V) HEMTs for Power Converters – Prof. Chirag Gupta
10:30 Comparison of Practical Topologies for High Power Isolated Bidirectional DC-DC Conversion – Prof. Giri Venkataramanan
11:15 Pushing the Limits of Integrated Machine Drives from Kilowatts to Megawatts
– Emeritus Prof. Thomas Jahns

LUNCH BREAK – 60MIN

1:00 – 2:00 On-Campus Poster Session
A group photo of WEMPEC faculty, staff and students.
WEMPEC Group Portrait – Annual Review 2024 (Photo taken by Todd Brown)