IEEE APEC 2013 Best Presentation Award

March 20, 2013,Long Beach, California, USA

Adrian Straka, (M.Sc.), received the best presentation award at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exhibition (APEC) the paper entitled:

“Noninvasive Self-Tuning Output Capacitor Time Constant Estimator For Low Power Digitally Controlled DC-DC Converters” (Aleksandar Radic, David Baik, Adrian Straka andAleksandar Prodić)

The award was given in a Component Level Modeling session.

IEEE COMPEL 2012 Best Paper Award

June 12, 2012, Kyoto, Japan

Damien Frost, M.Sc., received the best paper award at the IEEE Control and Modeling Power of Electronics 2012 held in Kyoto, Japan. The paper entitled:
“An advanced control method for cascaded SMPS to reduce the energy storage requirements,” (co-authors P.W. Lehn and A. Prodić)
was selected among more than 100 papers presented at the conference.

Damien receiving award at the conference closing ceremony.


2012 Inventor of the Year Award

June 7, 2012, University of Toronto

Prof. Aleksandar Prodić received an Inventor of the Year Award from the University of Toronto in the area of Engineering and Physical Science.

“This is an award for the entire team, my current and former students. Without your creativity, dedication, and passion nothing would be possible.” A. Prodić

The full article can be read here.

Award Ceremony, from left to right: Dr. Zdravko Lukic, Jurgen Alico M.Sc, Prof. Paul Young, Prof. David Naylor – University President, Prof. Aleksandar Prodić, Prof. Peter Lewis, S.M. Ahsanuzzaman M.Sc., and Dr. Cyril Gibbons. (Zdravko and Jurgen are former graduate students and S.M. Ahsanzzaman is a current Ph.D. student)


IEEE APEC 2012 Best Presentation Award

February 9, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA

S.M. Ahsanuzzaman, (M.Sc., Ph.D. Candidate), received the best presentation award at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exhibition (APEC) for his paper entitled:
“Low-Volume Buck Converter with Adaptive Inductor Core Biasing” (co-authors: T. McRae, M. Peretz, A. Prodić)
The award was given in a dc-dc power supplies session.


IEEE ECCE 2011, Best Poster Award

September 22, 2011, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Amir Parayandeh, (M.Sc., Ph.D. Candidate) received the best presentation award at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congres and Exhibition (ECCE) for his paper entitled:
“A 10 MHz Mixed-Signal CPM Controlled DC-DC Converter IC with Novel Gate Swing Circuit and Instantaneous Efficiency Optimization” (co-authors: B. Mahdavikhah, S.M. Ahsanuzzaman, A. Radic and A. Prodić)