2025 Research Symposium

The FREEDM Annual Symposium is where we showcase our research for the past year, hear from renowned speakers, and debate the future of energy and the grid. Please join us February 10 and 11 at the Hunt Library on Centennial Campus! Register for this year's event here using Eventbrite. The agenda for 2025 and previous year's symposia are below.

Agenda

Monday, February 10
8:00 amRegistration
8:30 amUniversity Welcome
FREEDM UpdateIqbal Husain, Ph.D.
FREEDM Executive Director
NC State
Keynote SpeakerBruno Lequesne (invited)
E-Motors Consulting
9:45 amBreak
10:00 amElectric TransportationSpeakerPresentation Title
Sarah Searcy
Emerging Technologies and
Innovation Manager
NC Department of
Transportation
Tomas Sadilek, PhD
Principal Aerospace Power
Electronics & Motor Drive Engineer
Curtiss Wright
Ashfanoor Kabir, PhD (invited)
Senior Engineering Specialist
Caterpillar
Ville Naumanen
Research Director
Kempower Electric
Mobility Research Center
11:15 amPoster SessionElectric Transportation
12:00 pmLunch
12:45 pmKeynote Speaker
1:30 pmRenewable EnergySpeakerPresentation Title
Vatan Kumar
PV Projects Manager
RWE		Update on Utility Scale Solar
Deployments in the US
Zeljko Pantic, PhD
Associate Professor
NC State		Multiport Converter for
Marine Energy Systems
Rifat Rachi, PhD
Power Electronics Engineer
Danfoss Drives		Green Hydrogen Production
Trent Miller
Lead Engineer, Microgrid
and DER Integration
Duke Energy		Hot Springs Microgrid
Performance post Helene
2:45 pmPoster SessionRenewable Energy
3:30 pmBreak
3:45 pmWide BandgapSpeakerPresentation Title
Victor Veliadis, PhD
Executive Director
PowerAmerica
Wensong Yu, PhD
Associate Research Professor
NC State		SiC Paired Switches
for High Power Applications
Doug Hopkins, PhD
Research Professor
NC State		Power Electronics Packaging
Govind Chavan, Phd
Principal Scientist
ABB		Solid State Circuit Breakers
5:00 pmPoster Session
5:45 pmReception with Heavy hors d'oeuvres
Tuesday, February 11
8:00 amRegistration
8:30 amWelcome
Keynote SpeakerDamir Novosel, PhD
President
Quanta Technology
9:30 amPower SystemsSpeakerPresentation Title
Sayak Mukherjee, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Hantao Cui, PhD
Associate Professor
NC State
9:45 amBreak
Hyeonjin Kim, Student
Yi Hu, Student		Machine Learning Applications
in Power System Load Analysis
Three Minute Thesis Competition
11:15 amPoster Session
12:00 pmLunch
12:45 pmKeynote Speaker
1:30 pmLab Tour and PostersFollow directions to FREEDM lab or parking deck.
3:30 pmAdjourn

Past Symposia

2024 Research Symposium

2023 Research Symposium

2022 Research Symposium

2021 Research Symposium