Akshay Kumar Rathore
Fellow of IEEE,
Ph.D., University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Akshay Kumar Rathore is a Professor and Director of Power and Energy Research Area in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on power electronics and control of electric motor drives. He is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of several prestigious awards, such as the IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, the Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, the IEEE David Irwin Early Career Award, the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, the Nagamori Award, and the distinguished alumnus award (young achiever) from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India.
Prof. Rathore has contributed to above 300 papers on soft-switching current-fed DC/DC converters, multilevel inverters, and DCM rectifiers, including about 110 IEEE Transactions. He edited a book on advanced concepts and technologies for electric transportation, published by CRC Press in 2022. He has delivered above 200 invited talks, keynotes, and tutorials in several events across the globe. Presently, he is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, Chair of the IEEE IAS Andrew W Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award COmmittee, and is serving on the committees of the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, IEEE Nikola Tesla Award and IES Fellow Evaluation Committee. He is a member of the IEEE IES Society AdCom with voting rights.