Technical Session Best Presentation Awards

APEC 2026 is proud to recognize the recipients of the Best Presentation Award. These awards are determined based on scores provided by Session Chairs during the conference, using a range of criteria that evaluate all aspects of the presentation, for both Dialogue and Technical Sessions. They recognize and promote the long-standing tradition of excellence in presentations at APEC. Congratulations to all recipients on this well-deserved recognition.

Lecture Sessions

Session	Paper Title	Presenter Name
T01 - Bi-Directional DC-DC Converters	Optimized TPS with New Symmetric Mode Boundaries for Bidirectional DAB Converters in Ultra-Wide Range SiC EV Charging Applications	Mahmoodreza Eskandarpour Azizkandi
T02 - Single-Phase AC-DC Converters	A New Single-Stage Bridgeless AC/DC Stacked-Switches Step-Up Converter Module with Input Synchronous Rectifier for MVdc System	Kajanan Kanathipan
T03 - Data Centers	Compact and Efficient 3kW 1MHz GaN LLC Converter Incorporating Matrix Transformer for Data Center Power Delivery	Jai Aditya Chaudhary
T04 - GaN Devices	High-Frequency Characterization of Coss Loss and Dynamic Rdson in Gan	Mansi Vipul Joisher
T05 - Inverter Modulation and Control	Analytical Description and Voltage Accuracy Improvement for Natural Overmodulation Methods Applied on a Two-Level Voltage Source Inverter	Dominik Großmann
T06 - Control 1	Active Damping Control for AC-DC Converters with Unfolder Plus T-Bridge Series Resonant Converter	Dakota Goodrich
T07 - Magnetics Application	Advantageous Applications for Permanent Magnet Hybrid Core Inductors	Rachel Yang
T08 - Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles and Aircrafts	An 8-Level Flying Capacitor Multi-Level Boost Converter for High-Voltage Power Distribution in Electric Aircraft	Syed Tahmid Mahbub
T09 - Point-of-Load DC-DC Converters	A Concept of Linked Coupled Inductors	Alexandr Ikriannikov
T10 - Modeling and Control Techniques for Motor Drives	Online Reinforcement Learning Torque Controller for Electrical Motor Drives	William Moreira
T11 - High Performance Inverter Topologies and Design	Single-Stage Isolated Bidirectional Current-Fed Modular Multilevel DC-AC Converter for High Step Ratio Applications	Flavio Ramos
T12 - SiC Devices	A High-Speed SiC MOSFET Based Switch Circuit for Fast Transition of Beam Current in Electron Gun Applications	Mustafa Murat Sezer
T13 - Emerging and Diverse Power Electronics Applications	Design of a GaN-Based Two-Stage Full-Bridge 1MHz High-Frequency Electrosurgical Generator	Ziyue Guo
T14 - Control 2	An Output Voltage Maximizer for Efficiency Improvement in Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters	Emmi Wyttenbach
T15 - Power Conversion for Microgrids	Model-Free Droop and Reinforcement Learning-Based Voltage Control of Decentralized Inverter-Based Microgrids	Daniel Weber
T16 - Wireless Power Technologies	Real-Time Adaptive ZVS Angle Control in Wireless Power Transfer Systems Based on Simple Voltage Sampling	Yuzhi Yang
T17 - Resonant and Quasi-Resonant DC-DC Converters 1	A Novel Isolated Flying-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with Integrated Magnetics and Hysteretic Capacitor-Balancing Control	Pablo M. Gil
T18 - Magnetics Modelling	Modeling of N-Level Current Balancing Transformers for Modular High Power Transformer Winding Building Blocks	Minh Ngo
T19 - High Density Power Module Design	Increasing Power Density in 48V DC-DC Converters Using Vertically Integrated 3D Glass Power Bricks for Data Center Applications	Joseph Winkler
T20 - On-Board and Off-Board Charging Systems	800 V On-Board Charger with Reduced DC-Link Capacitance via Embedded Active Power Decoupling	Haoyu Wang
T21 - Modeling and Simulation: Circuits & Systems; Parasitics Extraction & Optimization; and Software Tools	Modeling the Electric and Magnetic Near-Field Emissions from SiC-Based Half-Bridge Converters	Jeet Panchal
T22 - Gate Driver Circuits	A Temperature-Tolerant, Ultrafast Fault Protection Scheme for GaN HEMTs with PCB-Integrated Rogowski Coil Current Sensors	P. T. Nandh Kishore
T23 - Design and Control of High Power Converters	Multi-Port Operation of Modular Bridge Rectifier Solid-State Transformer with Integrated Medium-Voltage Energy Storage	Zhenchao Li
T24 - Wireless Energy Systems - High Frequency	A High-Power Compact Capacitive WPT System for EV Charging	Raquel Sarabia-Soto
T25 - 48V-to-1V Direct DC-DC Conversion	A Multiple-Inductor-Middle 48V-1V Hybrid DC-DC Converter for Computing Power Delivery	Zhiguo Tong
T26 - Solid State and Hybrid Circuit Breakers	Analysis of Crosstalk in Solid-State Circuit Breakers Equipped with Transient Voltage Suppression Diodes	Yang Xu
T27 - Modeling and Simulation: Device & Component Modeling	Modeling and Analysis of Partial Discharge in High-Voltage Printed Circuit Boards	Matthew Pompa
T28 - IGBTs and Ga2O3 Devices	Optimizing Gate Resistance in RC-IGBTs Through Analysis of Dynamic Switching Characteristics	Hideo Komo
T29 - EMI/EMC & Reliability Investigation of Power Converter	Transfer-Molded Power Module for Low Common-Mode Capacitance and Enhanced Thermo-Mechanical Reliability	Jiyoon Choi
T30 - Control 3	Gradient-Descent Sensorless Current Balancing for Multiphase LLC Converters	Orest Cobani
T31 - Power Electronics for Renewable Energy	A Single-Phase Non-Isolated Six-Switch Buck-Boost Inverter Using GaN Power Devices	Saleh Farzamkia
T32 - Resonant and Quasi-Resonant DC-DC Converters 2	Isolated, Multi-Resonant Flying-Capacitor-Based Soft-Switching Flyback Converter with a Fractional-Turn Planar Transformer	Kumar Joy Nag
T33 - 48V Intermediate Bus DC-DC Converters	A Simple Method for Capacitor Voltage Balancing of Flying-Capacitor Three-Level Buck Converters	Juan Rodríguez
T34 - Integrated Motor Drives and Actuators	A 3.3V to 200V Hybrid Series-Parallel Switched Capacitor Integrated Circuit for Dielectric Actuators with 94.2% Peak Efficiency	Bahlakoana Mabetha
T35 - Modeling and Simulation: HIL, Digital Twins, and Rapid Prototyping	Enhancing DC Microgrid Electrothermal Performance Through Digital Twin Enabled Droop Optimization	Cameron Ball
T36 - Magnetics Design and Modelling	LLG-SPICE: A Unified Model for Simulating Planar Magnetics with Material Physics Properties	Davit Grigoryan
T37 - Power Module Integration and Measurement	Low-Profile Vertical Shunt Resistor Integration in High-Current Power Modules	Thiyu Warnakulasooriya
T38 - Three-Phase AC-DC Converters	Design and Comparative Analysis of Fully Soft-Switched and Hard-Switched Current Injection Circuit for Unfolding-Based AC-DC Converters	Shubhangi Gurudiwan
T39 - Control and Diagnostics of Power Converters and Energy Storage	Resilient Neural Control for Grid-Forming Microgrids: an Integrated AI-Based Approach for Virtual-Impedance Scheduling and Cyber-Attack Mitigation	Uzair Asif
T40 - DC-DC Converter Applications	A Self-Triggering ZVS Gate Drive for Multi-MHz Class-D Inverters	Cheng Zhang

Dialogue Sessions

Session	Paper Title	Presenter Name
D01 - AC-DC Converters	Design and Implementation of a Three-Phase Eight-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Rectifier for Future Data Center Power Delivery	Roderick Bayliss III
D02 - High Voltage or High Power DC-DC Converters 1	Single-Stage Vertical Voltage Regulator for High-Performance Microprocessors	Zhenshuai Rong
D03 - Low Voltage or Low Power DC-DC Converters 2	2:1 Capacitively-Isolated Resonant Switched Capacitor DCX Converter	Gabriel Luis Maldonado Roldán
D04 - Devices 3: GaN and Others	Gate-Delay Optimization Strategy for Balancing Dynamic ON-Resistance and Power Loss in GaN/Si Hybrid Switches	Chen Song
D05 - Control 6	Hierarchical Virtual Oscillator Control Based on Andronov-Hopf Oscillator for Microgrid Black Start	Shumeng Wang
D06 - Motor Drives	Adaptive Acceleration Control of a Six-Phase PMSM Considering Thermal-Mechanical Constraints	Md Moniruzzaman
D07 - Power Electronics for Utility Applications 1	Fault Detection and Current Limitation Strategy for Grid-Forming Converters Under Balanced Faults	Matheus Bernardes Soares
D08 - On-Board and Off-Board Chargers	A Unified Off-Board Charging System for Integrated Wired and Wireless EV Charging	Cheol-Hee Jo
D09 - Power Electronics Applications 1	Control of an Active Clamp Flyback Converter for a Travelling Wave Tube	Alberto Astolfi
D10 - Wireless Power Transfer 1	High-Power Wireless Phone Charging via Reconfigurable MagSafe-Coil	Liang Jia
D11 - Magnetics Applications & Characterization	Circuit-Based Analytical Model for the Airgap Effect on Current Sharing in Parallel Windings of a Planar PCB Transformer	Yan Liang
D12 - DC-AC Inverters	A Novel Quasi-Five-Level Three-Phase Inverter	Christoph Sachs
D13 - High Voltage or High Power DC-DC Converters 2	High-Density, High-Efficiency GaN-Based 800 V/50 V LLC Converter for Future Datacenters	Pranav Raj Prakash
D14 - Devices 1: Silicon and Passive	Maximizing Capacitance Density in 48V DC-DC Converters: An MLCC Selection Guide	Joseph Winkler
D15 - Control 4	A Decoupled Control Methodology for Stable Operation of Current-Fed Quad Active Bridge Converter	Rajat Kumar Shukla
D16 - Control 7	Active Gate Drive with Optical Communication and Integrated Power and Signal Systems in Series Connected SiC MOSFETs	Junghoon Kim
D17 - Renewable Energy Systems	Real Time Converter-Based EIS with Output Disturbance Mitigation for Fuel Cell Application	Pedro Andrade
D18 - Power Electronics for Utility Applications 2	Bipolar Boost Converter for Transformerless Battery Energy Storage Integration in the Medium Voltage Distribution Grid	Sabrina Helbig
D19 - Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles	Design of a Modular Sine-Wave GaN Traction Inverter for 400V Automotive Applications	Simone Giuffrida
D20 - Power Electronics Applications: Solid State Circuit Breakers and IOT	A Low-Cost Multi-Port Hybrid Circuit Breaker with Common Solid-State Branch	Daixin Chen
D21 - Wireless Power Transfer 2	High-Voltage Insulated Gate Driver Supply for Solid State Breaker Through Constant Voltage LCC-S Wireless Power Transfer	Haonan Song
D22 - Magnetics Applications & Design	A New Low Profile, Power Dense Geometry for a 50 kW Transformer with PCB Windings for Electric Aircraft Applications	Lufan Zhou
D23 - Power Electronics Integration and Manufacturing 1	Short-Circuit Failure Mode Mechanical Readiness of SiC Press-Pack Packages	Youssef Abotaleb
D24 - Low Voltage or Low Power DC-DC Converters 1	Modeling and Analysis of Piezoelectric-Resonator-Based Power Converters with Finite Terminal Capacitance	Benjamin Karish
D25 - Devices 2: SiC	Lifetime of Wolfspeed SiC Discrete MOSFETs Under Power Cycling Stress	Shilpi Mukherjee
D26 - Control 5	Discrete-Time Multivariable PID Design in Voltage-Mode Boost Converters for Enhanced Performance and Stability	Philip Krein
D27 - Modeling and Simulation: Circuits & Systems; and Parasitics Extraction & Optimization	The Impact of Switch Commutation on Voltage Balancing in Three-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters	Noah Hosein
D28 - Modeling and Simulation: Device & Component Modeling; Software Tools; and HIL, Digital Twins and Rapid Prototyping	Modeling Multi-View Impedance-Based Cross-Geometry SOH Estimator for Li-Ion Batteries	Ahmed Bakr
D29 - Power Electronics Integration and Manufacturing 2	Correlation Between Individual Die Temperature and Transient Thermal Measurements for Silicon Carbide Power Modules	Sergio Jimenez
D30 - Multilevel Converter and Electric Aircraft Applications	Near-Field Coupling Analysis of Butterfly Layouts in Paralleled GaN Half-Bridges for Aerospace Applications	Abdul Muneeb
D31 - Power Electronics Applications 2	Design of High-Frequency, High-Voltage Planar Transformer for Driving Dielectric Barrier Discharge Loads	Hyeongmeen Baik