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 years' 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
8:35 amVeena Misra, PhD
Department Head
Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State
8:40 amFREEDM UpdateIqbal Husain, PhD
FREEDM Executive Director
NC State
9:00 amKeynote SpeakerVictor Veliadis, PhD
Executive Director
PowerAmerica		Accelerating Commercialization
of SiC Chips and
Power Electronics
9:45 amBreak
Electric TransportationSpeakerPresentation Title
10:00 amTomas Sadilek, PhD
Principal Aerospace Power
Electronics & Motor Drive Engineer
Curtiss Wright		Electrified Actuation for Aerospace
Applications at Curtiss-Wright
10:20 amSarah Searcy
Emerging Technologies and
Innovation Manager
NC Department of
Transportation		NCDOT's Electric Vehicle
and Automated Vehicle Initiatives
10:40 amPetri Korhonen
Innovation Director
Kempower		Electric Mobility Research
at Kempower
11:00 amAshfanoor Kabir, PhD
Senior Engineering Specialist
Caterpillar		Electric Motors for Transportation
11:20 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
Renewable EnergySpeakerPresentation Title
1:30 pmBen Callum
Head of Product
PV Farm		Bridging Design to Construction:
Interactive Solar Engineering
1:45 pmVatan Kumar
PV Projects Manager
RWE		Update on Utility Scale Solar
Deployments in the US
2:00 pmZeljko Pantic, PhD
Associate Professor
NC State		FREEDM Research on
DC Microgrid Systems for
Offshore Applications
2:15 pmRifat Rachi, PhD
Power Electronics Engineer
Danfoss Drives		Green Hydrogen Production
2:30 pmTrent Miller
Lead Engineer, Microgrid
and DER Integration
Duke Energy		Hot Springs Microgrid
Performance post Helene
2:45 pmPoster SessionRenewable Energy
Wide BandgapSpeakerPresentation Title
3:30 pmKeynote SpeakerPeter Barbosa, PhD
R&D Director
Delta Electronics		Solid-State Transformers
in Medium Voltage Applications
4:00 pmWensong Yu, PhD
Associate Research Professor
NC State		SiC Paired Switches
for High Power Applications
4:15 pmDoug Hopkins, PhD
Research Professor
NC State		Advanced Packaging Issues
and A New WFD Platform
4:30 pmGovind Chavan, Phd
Principal Scientist
ABB		Protection Coordination
in DC Microgrids
4:45 pmPoster SessionWide Bandgap
5:30 pmReception with heavy Hors d'Oeuvres
Tuesday, February 11
8:00 amRegistration and Breakfast
8:30 amWelcome
8:40 amKeynote SpeakerDamir Novosel, PhD
President
Quanta Technology		Success Factors for Sustainable
Electrical Energy Delivery
Power SystemsSpeakerPresentation Title
9:15 amSayak Mukherjee, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Lab		On the Dynamical Impacts and
Advanced Controls for
Inverter-Dominated Grids
9:30 amHantao Cui, PhD
Associate Professor
NC State		Pathway Towards an
Open-Source Ecosystem for
Power System Software
9:45 amBreak
10:00 amHyeonjin Kim
Student
Pre-trained Models for
Load Profile Analysis
10:15 amYi Hu
Student		Generative AI in Power
System Data Analysis
10:30 amJishnudeep 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 SessionPower Systems
12:00 pmLunch
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