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 GPECOM2026

IEEE GPECOM2026 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.

Additionally, Dr. Muhammad H. Rashid awards have been presented to five papers that four student papers were granted. We appreciate Dr. Rashid’s generous support of the GPECOM Conference and his contributions to society.

Congratulations to all award winners!

 

Muhammad H. Rashid Awards

  • ID 126: Zero Voltage Switching Back-to-Back Converter for Wind Generators with Integrated Energy Storage; Salvatore Foti; Gioele Baia; Danilo Campagna; Salvatore De Caro; Antonio Testa; Giacomo Scelba (Muhammad Rashid Best Paper)
  • ID 147: Extended Kalman Filter-based Adaptive Sensorless Control for PMSM Drives Using Blockwise RLS Method; Zsanett Bertók; Csaba Budai (Muhammad Rashid Best Student Paper in Power Electronics)
  • ID 261: Active Damping of Low-Frequency Oscillation in VSG-Based Grid-Forming E-STATCOMs; Mohib Ullah; Yajuan Guan; Hikmat Basnet; Tomi Roinila; Juan C. Vasquez; Josep M. Guerrero (Muhammad Rashid Best Student Paper in Power Electronics)
  • ID 247: Explainable Machine Learning for Distribution Transformer Load Ratio Forecasting; Aslı Sude Yörük; Kasım Zor (Muhammad Rashid Best Student Paper in Power Systems)
  • ID 163: Improved Reference-Point Algorithm for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in Massive MIMO; Eni Haxhiraj; Elson Agastra (Muhammad Rashid Best Student Paper in Communication Technologies)

Power Electronics and Electric Machines

  • ID 457: Impact of Traction Motors Bearings Degradation in Common Mode Current; Luigi Pio Di Noia, Emanuele Fedele, Santolo Meo, Renato Rizzo (Outstanding Paper in Power Electronics)
  • ID 400: Active Damping Integrated Modulated Model Predictive Control for LCL-Filtered Grid-Connected Active Front-End Rectifier; Alaa Ibrahim; Uğur Ufuk Körpe; Mustafa Gökdağ; Ozan Gülbudak (Best Student Paper in Power Electronics)
  • ID 304: Stability- and Passivity-Oriented Design of Single-Voltage-Loop Control with Harmonic Mitigation for Grid-Forming Inverters; Yun Yu; Yajuan Guan; Jingxuan Wu; Bingchen Jiang; Junlan Ou; Juan C. Vasquez (Best presentation in Power Electronics)

Power Systems

  • ID 415: Computational Speed-up for Discretized State Space Systems using Modal Redundancy; Noman Saied; Abdelrahman Karrar (Outstanding Paper in Power Systems)
  • ID 277: Multicriteria Decision-Making Under Deployment Constraints for Deep Learning Model Selection in Insulator Mechanical Fault Detection; Arailym Serikbay; Venera Nurmanova; Amin Zollanvari; Mehdi Bagheri (Best Student Paper in Power Systems)
  • ID 413: Estimation of Fast Active Power Response in Mixed SG-MMC Networks via Artificial Neural Networks; Monika Sharma; Guus van Putten; José Rueda; Jonathan Aviles-Cedeno; Dong Liu (Best presentation in Power Systems)

Communication Technologies

  • ID 366: Parallel GNSS Satellite Simulator for Real-Time Multi-GNSS Signal Generation; Yongtaek Hwang; Jaeo Son; Dohun; Hoyoung Yoo (Outstanding paper in Communication Technologies)
  • ID 341: Low-Latency QKD Protection of Synchrophasor Data Using a Low-Cost PMU; Mario Albanese; Roua Hamila; Daniele Carta; Ferdinanda Ponci; Andrea Benigni (Best Student Paper in Communication Technologies)
  • ID 346: Proactive AI-Based Anomaly Detection for supporting power grid Frequency Balancing using Radio Base Stations; Illyyne Saffar; Lackis Elftheriadis; Aurélie Boisbunon; Oleg Gorbatov; Shruti Bothe (Best presentation in Communication Technologies)