Annual GPECOM Awards

Dr. Muhammad Harunur Rashid Best Paper Awards

Professor Muhammad H. Rashid is generously supporting the GPECOM2026 conference by providing best paper grants aimed at fostering enthusiasm among young professionals and students. There will be a total of four grants, each valued at 250 USD for professional researchers holding a Ph.D. degree and specifically designated for graduate students.

Prof. Muhammad H. Rashid Awards will be presented in categories of

– Outstanding Paper Award
– Best Student Paper Award
– Best Presentation Award

GPECOM 2026 Best Paper Awards

In addition to Dr. Muhammad Harunur Rashid Best Paper Grants, Annual GPECOM Awards will be presented in three categories. The nominees will be referred by GPECOM 2026 Program Committee among the presented papers. 

GPECOM 2026 Awards will be presented in categories of

– GPECOM2026 Best Student Paper Award
– GPECOM2026 Outstanding Paper Award
– GPECOM2026 Best Presentation Award

The exceptional research papers will be celebrated across three specialized domains: Power Electronics and Electrical Machines, Power Systems, and Communication Technologies, recognizing in each award category. 

The Best Student papers of GPECOM2026 Awards will be granted with 200 EUR waiver check for the next GPECOM conference.

Best Paper Awards Presented at IEEE GPECOM2025

IEEE GPECOM2025 recognized outstanding research papers in three specialized domains: Power Electronics and Electrical Machines, Power Systems, and Communication Technologies. The awards recognize the Outstanding Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Presentation in each area.

Congratulations to all award winners!

 

Power Electronics and Electric Machines

  • ID 227: Designing an IGBT-Based Active Front-End Rectifier with Voltage Oriented-based Control for Power-to-Hydrogen Electrolyzers; Arman Fathollahi, Torsten Wildenradt Nielsen, Björn Andresen, Christian Dannesboe (Outstanding paper in Power Electronics)
  • ID 137: A Novel Coenergy Based Torque Calculation Method for the Reluctance Motor Drives of Electric Vehicles; Richárd Csaba Kovács, Vilmos Paiss, Tibor Vajsz, Csongor Horváth, István Szászi (Best Student paper in Power Electronics)
  • ID 309: Modeling of a Two-Level Inverter with an SPMSM as Part of a Load Sided Resonant Inverter Under Fundamental Frequency Switching; Jan Loos, Kerstin Siebert, Holger Hirsch (Best presentation in Power Electronics)

Power Systems

  • ID 222: Direct Interfacing of Admittance-Based Aggregated Models of Converter-Interfaced Resources in Nodal Analysis EMT Simulators; Arash Safavizadeh, Rahul Raman Ramesh, Seyyedmilad Ebrahimi, Juri Jatskevich (Outstanding paper in Power Systems)
  • ID 442: A Cost-Effective Approach for Reliable Operation of Sustainable Industrial Multi-Energy Systems; Coen Tonnaer, Camila Castrillon-Franco, Jose Luis Rueda-Torres, Jonathan Aviles Cedeno, Peter Palensky (Best Student paper in Power Systems)
  • ID 388: Overview of Current Limitation Methods for Grid Forming Converters; Mohamed El Mahdi Bouaoud; Loknadh Salagamsetty; Lijun Cai (Best presentation in Power Systems)

Communication Technologies

  • ID 423: Remote Monitoring and Control of Distributed Energy Resources via 5G; Rezeq Direya, Ville Ollikainen, Ferdinanda Ponci, Antonello Monti (Outstanding paper in Communication Technologies)
  • ID 378: Joint RIS Leasing and Energy Management for Delay-Tolerant 6G Networks; Zawar Hussain, Naveed Ul Hassan, Ijaz Haider Naqvi (Best student paper in Communication Technologies)
  • ID 103: Building Energy Management System Using RB-NMPC: Modeling, Validation, and Test Methods; Imene Benrabia, Dirk Söffker (Best presentation paper in Communication Technologies)