ACDC 2026 Speakers

Keynote Speaker, Professor Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Academician of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, IEEE Fellow

Speech Title: Reliability Engineering of Power Electronics Dominated Power System

Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) was with ABB-Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992, he got the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Aalborg University in 1995. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998 at AAU Energy. From 2017 he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania in 2017 and Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia in 2018 as well as honorary professor of University of Parma in 2025.

His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, Power-2-X, power quality and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 800 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co-author of ten monographs and editor of twenty books in power electronics and its applications eg. the series (4 volumes) Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems published by Academic Press/Elsevier.

He has received 49 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE-PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019 and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS from 2006 to 2012. He has been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011 as well as 2017 to 2018. In 2019-2020 he served as a President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has been Vice-President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.

Keynote Speaker, Professor Dushan Boroyevich, Virginia Tech, Academician of National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Life Fellow

Speech Title: Possible Architectures of Future ACDC Electronic Power Systems

Dushan Boroyevich received his Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade in 1976 and his M.S. degree from the University of Novi Sad in 1982, in what then used to be Yugoslavia.  He received his Ph.D. degree in 1986 from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. Between 1986 and 1990, he was an assistant professor and director of the Power and Industrial Electronics Research Program at the University of Novi Sad. He then joined the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech as associate professor, and later a co-founder of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). He retired from Virginia Tech in 2024 as University Distinguished Professor and as Associate Vice-President for Research and Innovation in Energy Systems. Dushan was a mentor for around 60 Ph.D. dissertations and 50 M.S. theses, with whom he co-authored over 900 publications. He continues to be active in consulting and promoting new electronic energy networks for energy transition. He was the president of IEEE Power Electronics Society for 2011-12.

Dushan is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and is a recipient of 6 honorary professorships in China, as well as numerous other awards, including the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Technical Field Award, the European Power Electronics Association Outstanding Achievement Award, and Ph.D.H.C. from the University of West Bohemia, Czechia. He is IEEE Life Fellow and Fellow of CSEE.

Keynote Speaker, Abhay Kumar (Jain), Hitachi Energy, Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer, IEEE Life Fellow

Speech Title: HVDC - accelerating renewable integration

Abhay Kumar (Jain) is IEEE Fellow, and Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at HVDC Hitachi Energy in Ludvika, Sweden. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee in India and started his professional career in 1982 and has been with Hitachi Energy (including previously with ABB) since 1995; overall working in HVDC field over 40 years. Recently he has been playing a key role in executing several 800 kV UHVDC Projects and Saudi-Egypt. He has been active in several IEEE, IEC and CIGRE working groups and is regular member for CIGRE SC B4 representing Sweden. He is recipient IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award (2019), IEC 1906 Award (2020) and CIGRE Honorary Member Award (2022). He is already Fellow of Institute of Engineers (India) since 2020.