2023

  • Prof. Maksimovic has been named CU Distinguished Professor. 
  • Prof. Maksimovic is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award for contributions to digital control, modeling, and topologies of switched-mode power supplies.
  • Congratulations to Chandan Suthar who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on High Performance Digital Control and Synthesis of DC-DC Converters for Wide Bandwidth and High Efficiency.
  • Congratulations to Trent Martin for successfully defending his M.S. Thesis on Modular series-stacked bidirectional AC/DC architecture for 3-phase grid-tied applications.
  • Congratulations to Shivangi Sinha for successfully defending her M.S. Thesis on 48 V - 1 V Active clamp stacked direct forward converter.
  • Congratulations to Skye Reese for the best presentation award at IEEE APEC 2023. 
  • Congratulations to Trent Martin for the best presentation award at IEEE APEC 2023.
  • New project: Next generation PV micro-inverters, collaborative project sponsored by Qcells. 
  • New project: Universal AC-DC Charger, with Prof. Luca Corradini on a collaborative project sponsored by FreeWire Technologies.
  • New project: High-Voltage Bidirectional DC-DC Converter, collaboration with Alphacore in a NASA Phase I SBIR project. 
  • New project: Advanced Cooling Solutions for High-Frequency Medium-Voltage Planar Transformers, collaboration with Advanced Cooling Technologies in a Department of Energy Phase II SBIR project. 
  • New project: Electric-vehicle power electronics, collaborative project with Toyota Research Institute. 
  • New project: High-density, high-efficiency, large step-down conversion for space applications, we are on a team in the DARPA Space Power Conversion Electronics (SPCE) program. 

2022

  • Prof. Maksimovic is the recipient of the 2022 IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award for contributions to modeling and analysis of digitally controlled power converters.
  • New project: Modeling and Control of Resonant Inverters, a project sponsored by Eximis Surgical.
  • New project: Scalable Modular MVAC-to-DC Architecture, a collaboration project sponsored by Electric Hydrogen.
  • New project: Building Pandemic Resilience for Native American Communities, Flexible Air-Quality Control System, a project sponsored by NIST Rapid Assistance (for) Coronavirus Economic Response (RACER) program through PowerAmerica, a collaboration with Prof. Shelly Miller from CU-Boulder Mechanical Engineering. 
  • Congratulations to Branko Majmunovic who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Optimization of active-bridge-based modular power converters.
  • Congratulations to Janko Celikovic who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Modeling and control optimization of DC-DC power converters for battery-powered mobile applications.

2021

  • New project: Data-Driven Design Automation Techniques for High-Performance Power Conversion Systems, a project sponsored by Lockheed Martin.
  • New Project: Gallium Nitride Power Amplifier Design, Test, & Advanced Packaging for High-Performance, collaboration with Prof. Zoya Popovic and Prof. Taylor Barton, including developments of monolithic GaN high-performance switch-mode converters.  
  • Congratulations to Vivek Sankaranarayanan who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Control Strategies for Efficiency Optimization of Composite Converters
  • Congratulations to Yucheng Gao who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Design and Optimization of a 100 kW Composite Converter for Electric Vehicle Drivetrain
  • Congratulations to Satyaki Mukherjee who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Wide Range DC-DC Power Conversion Systems - Architectures, Circuits and Components
  • Congratulations to Ph.D. students Skye Reese and Matthew Bossart who won NSF Graduate Research Fellowships! 
  • Congratulations to Kyle Goodrick who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on Systematic Optimization of DC Distribution Architectures
  • New project: Synthesis of Extreme Efficiency Monolithic Power Converters, a project sponsored by Texas Instruments.

2020