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.
Exclusive 2-day event
- WEMPEC Sponsors only
- 200+ attendees
- Presentations on pre-publication research
- Tutorials by WEMPEC faculty
- Tour our labs
Highly interactive environment
- Converse with students, colleagues, and faculty
- Spark new ideas
- Forge partnerships with students and faculty
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 |
