2025 Research Symposium

The FREEDM Annual Symposium is where we showcase our research for the past year, hear from renowned speakers, and debate the future of energy and the grid. Please join us February 10 and 11 at the Hunt Library on Centennial Campus! Register for this year's event here using Eventbrite. The agenda for 2025 and previous year's symposia are below.

Agenda

Monday, February 10
8:00 amRegistration and Breakfast
8:30 amUniversity WelcomeChristopher Frey, PhD
Associate Dean for
Research and Infrastructure
College of Engineering
NC State
Veena Misra, PhD
Department Head
Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State
FREEDM UpdateIqbal Husain, PhD
FREEDM Executive Director
NC State
Keynote SpeakerVictor Veliadis, PhD
Executive Director
PowerAmerica		Accelerating Commercialization
of SiC Chips and
Power Electronics
9:45 amBreak
10:00 amElectric TransportationSpeakerPresentation Title
Tomas Sadilek, PhD
Principal Aerospace Power
Electronics & Motor Drive Engineer
Curtiss Wright
Sarah Searcy
Emerging Technologies and
Innovation Manager
NC Department of
Transportation
Petri Korhonen
Innovation Director
Kempower		Electric Mobility Research
at Kempower
Ashfanoor Kabir, PhD
Senior Engineering Specialist
Caterpillar		Electric Motors for Transportation
11:15 amPoster SessionElectric Transportation
12:00 pmLunch
12:45 pmKeynote SpeakerVille Naumanen, PhD
Research Director
Kempower Electric
Mobility Research Center
Perspectives on Heavy Duty
Electric Transportation
in Europe
1:30 pmRenewable EnergySpeakerPresentation Title
Ben Callum
Head of Product
PV Farm		Bridging Design to Construction:
Interactive Solar Engineering
Vatan Kumar
PV Projects Manager
RWE		Update on Utility Scale Solar
Deployments in the US
Zeljko Pantic, PhD
Associate Professor
NC State		Multiport Converter for
Marine Energy Systems
Rifat Rachi, PhD
Power Electronics Engineer
Danfoss Drives		Green Hydrogen Production
Trent Miller
Lead Engineer, Microgrid
and DER Integration
Duke Energy		Hot Springs Microgrid
Performance post Helene
2:45 pmPoster SessionRenewable Energy
Break
3:45 pmWide BandgapSpeakerPresentation Title
Keynote SpeakerPeter Barbosa, PhD
R&D Director
Delta Electronics		Solid-State Transformers
in Medium Voltage Applications
Wensong Yu, PhD
Associate Research Professor
NC State		SiC Paired Switches
for High Power Applications
Doug Hopkins, PhD
Research Professor
NC State		Advanced Packaging Issues
and A New WFD Platform
Govind Chavan, Phd
Principal Scientist
ABB		Solid State Circuit Breakers
5:00 pmPoster Session
5:30 pmReception with Heavy hors d'oeuvres
Tuesday, February 11
8:00 amRegistration and Breakfast
8:30 amWelcome
Keynote SpeakerDamir Novosel, PhD
President
Quanta Technology		Success Factors for Sustainable
Electrical Energy Delivery
9:15 amPower SystemsSpeakerPresentation Title
Sayak Mukherjee, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Hantao Cui, PhD
Associate Professor
NC State
9:45 amBreak
10:00 amHyeonjin Kim, Student
Machine Learning Applications
in Power System Load Analysis
Yi Hu
Student		Generative AI in Power
System Data Analysis
Jishnudeep Kar, PhD
Scientist
Hitachi Energy		A Risk-Aware Strategy for
Enhancing Power Grid Resilience
to Extreme Weather Events
10:45 amThree Minute Thesis Competition
11:15 amPoster Session
12:00 pmLunch
1:00 pmOptional WorkshopSrdjan Lukic, PhD
Professor
NC State		Workforce Training Requirements
for Power Electronics
Manufacturing
1:00 pmLab Tour and PostersFollow directions to FREEDM lab or parking deck.
3:00 pmAdjourn

Past Symposia

2024 Research Symposium

2023 Research Symposium

2022 Research Symposium

2021 Research Symposium