Danan Dou of John Deere

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Dr.Danan Dou has a Ph. D in Chemistry. He worked on emission controls for 11 years before joining John Deere in 2006 as the manager of aftertreatment technologies. Dr.Danan is a John Deere fellow and a SAE fellow. His current position is the Chief Technologist of John Deere Power Systems.

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Address:Chief Technologist (Power Systems), John Deere Fellow and SAE Fellow, Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States , Cedar Falls, India

Sanjeet Kumar Dwivedi of Everfuel

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Sanjeet Kumar Dwivedi received the M. Tech. degree with Gold Medal from Indian Institute of Technology (Formally University of Roorkee), Roorkee, India, in 1999 and Ph.D Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 2006. He has joined Laursen and Toubro Ltd. as Graduate Engineer Trainee in 1991. In 1993 he joined as Lecturer in Electrical Deptt., Government Engineering College Sagar, MP India, where he became Associate Professor in 2004 and HOD in 2007. Since October 2008 he is working as R&D Engineer in Control Engineering Department of Danfoss Drives A/S, Denmark. His research interests include Control methods of PM Motors, Induction Motors and Synchronous Reluctance Motors, Sensolress control of AC Drives, Energy Efficient Control of Drive and Power Quality. He is associate with the IEEE as Senior Member since 2009 and also serve as Tech Editor of IEEE Tran on Mechatronics.

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Address:India

Brij. N. Singh of Jone Deere

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Brij N. Singh (S'93–M'98) was born in Shahpur Charki, India, in 1968. He received the B.E. degree from Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur, India, in 1989, the M.E. degree from the University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, in 1996.,In 1996, he joined the École de Technology Supérieure, Université du Québec, Montreal, QC, Canada, as a Postdoctoral Fellow to work in the areas of flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS) and power quality. In 1999, he joined Concordia University, Montreal, and worked in the area of power supplies for telecommunication and computer systems. In 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, as an Assistant Professor. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of a research project funded by the National Science Foundation. His fields of research interest include power electronics, power quality, computational intelligence, modeling/analysis and digital control of electrical machines, and renewable energy systems.,Dr. Singh received three teaching excellence awards (IEEE ETA KAPPA NU/IEEE Teaching Award awards voted by electrical engineering undergraduate students) for outstanding instruction in electrical engineering at Tulane University.

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Address:North Dakota, United States

Executive Director & CTO of Power America and NC State University

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Dr. Victor Veliadis is Executive Director & CTO of PowerAmerica, a member-driven Manufacturing USA Institute of industry, universities, and national labs accelerating the commercialization of energy efficient silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductor chips and electronics. At PowerAmerica, he has managed a budget of $156 million that he strategically allocated to over 210 industrial and University projects to catalyze SiC and GaN semiconductor and power electronics manufacturing, workforce development, and job creation. His PowerAmerica educational activities have trained 430 full-time University students in collaborative industry/University WBG projects, and engaged over 7000 attendees in tutorials, short courses, and webinars. In 2023, he won a $64M U.S. Department of Energy PowerAmerica renewal to further catalyze WBG power technologies. He is also PI of the $5 million NIST “Building pandemic resilience in Native American communities'' electrification and emergency management project.

Dr. Veliadis is an ECE Professor at NC State University, and an IEEE Fellow and EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He has 27 issued U.S. patents, 12 book chapters, and 163 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. He is a sought-after speaker with over 180 keynote/tutorial/invited presentations including keynotes at ICSCRM, APEC, ECCE, ECPE, IFWS, and WiPDA. Prior to entering academia and taking an executive position at Power America in 2016, Dr. Veliadis spent 21 years post-PhD in the semiconductor industry where his work included design, fabrication, and testing of SiC devices, GaN devices for military radar systems, and financial and operations management of a commercial semiconductor fab. He has received military training in the Army Infantry and is a third-degree black belt in Shotokan karate. Dr. Veliadis has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from John Hopkins University (1995).

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Address:India