Session Information
DATE: Monday, August 25, 2025
EVENT SCHEDULE
Keynote Speaker Schedule
Morning Session: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Afternoon Sessions: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Tutorial Speaker Schedule
Morning Session: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Afternoon Sessions: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Keynote Speakers
Keynote Title:
"Managing" Faults and Failures - A personal view over 30yrs
CEO
D&V Electronics USA
Uday Deshpande
Dr. Uday Deshpande is the CEO/CTO of D&V Electronics, a provider of specialized test equipment for automotive, military, and EV applications. He previously held global engineering leadership roles at CNH Industrial, Ingersoll Rand, General Atomics, and Black & Decker. His work spans electric power steering, drivetrains, aircraft launch systems, and electrified agricultural equipment. His expertise lies in electrical and electromechanical systems.
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Keynote Title
Past, Present, and Future of Electrified Aircraft
AFRL/RQQE
Electrical Systems Branch
Kevin Yost
Mr. Kevin Yost has worked in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Power & Control division on electric power generating systems for 21 years. Mr. Yost leads in-house experimental research in generator hardware performance and parameter characterization. He also supports extensive external programs involving integrated motor and generator design for challenging, emergent Air Force needs. These emerging requirements include Megawatt-class military aircraft, affordable power generation solutions, and electrified aircraft propulsion. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Keynote Title:
Motor Whisperer: On the Art of Condition Monitoring in Electric Machinery
Professor
Distinguished Chair of Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas
Babak Fahimi
Dr. Babak Fahimi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1999. After three years in industry, he joined Missouri S&T as an assistant professor, and since 2010 has been a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he founded the power and energy concentration and holds the Distinguished Chair of Engineering.
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Keynote Title:
Traction drives: Challenges and Opportunities in Software Diagnostics
Founder of Conifer
Yateendra Deshpande
Yateendra Deshpande is the founder of Conifer, a company developing cutting-edge electric powertrains for mopeds, motorcycles, power equipment, and industrial applications. Previously, he led motor design at Lucid Motors, where he helped bring the Lucid Air powertrain to production, contributing to both hardware and motor control software.
Tutorial Speakers
Reliability Assessment and Condition Monitoring of IGBT/SiC through Highly Integrated Gate Driver
Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments
Dr. Luowei Wen is an Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments Inc. in Dallas, TX, where he focuses on development and application of programmable isolated gate drivers for high-power systems, especially EV traction inverters. He received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University (2014), the M.S. degree from New York University (2017), and the Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University (2023), all in electrical engineering. His research interests include programmable gate driver design and application, EV traction drive, wide bandgap device modeling and application, and EMI modeling.
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Fault-Tolerant Power Converters for Safety-Critical Applications
JiangBiao He
Associate Professor
University of Tennessee
Dr. JiangBiao He is an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky. He has worked in multiple industry R&D centers before joined academia, most recently as a Lead Engineer at GE Global Research, NY. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University, WI. His research interests include advanced power electronics and motor-drive systems for emerging applications, especially in transportation electrification. He has authored and co-authored over 150 technical articles and 10 patents. He is the recipient of several achievement awards, including the 2018 Whitney Technical Excellence Award at GE Global Research, the 2019 AWS Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award recognized by the IEEE Industry Applications Society, and the 2023 Faculty Excellence in Research award at the University of Kentucky
Power Converters with Prognostic Health Monitoring (PHM) at the Edge
Harish Krishnamoorthy
Associate Professor
ECE Department
University of Houston
Dr. Harish S. Krishnamoorthy (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.Tech. degree from the EEE department, NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, and his Ph.D. degree from the ECE department, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, in 2008 and 2015, respectively. From Jun. 2008 to Jul. 2010, he worked at GE Energy, Hyderabad, India, and received the Lean 6-Sigma Green Belt certification. From Apr. 2015 to July 2017, he was with Schlumberger (SLB), TX, USA. He has also worked at Ford and Google. Since Aug. 2017, Dr. Krishnamoorthy has been with the ECE department of the University of Houston (UH), where he is currently an Associate Professor.