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Matthias Preindl

Columbia University

Matthias Preindl received the PhD degree in Energy Engineering from the Doctoral School of Industrial Engineering at University of Padua, Italy (2014), the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2010), and the BSc degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from University of Padua, Italy (2008).

Dr. Preindl is Associate Professor of Power Electronic Systems at Columbia University in the City of New York since 2020. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as Assistant Professor in 2016 and is the principal investigator of the Motor Drives and Power Electronics Laboratory (MPLab). Before joining Columbia University, he was a Sessional Professor (2015) and a Post Doctoral Researcher (2014-2015) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Canada; a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley, USA (2013); and a visiting student at Aalborg University, Denmark (2009). Also, he worked in wind power industry as an R\&D engineer at Leitwind AG, Italy (2010-2012).

Dr. Preindl serves as Area Editor (Co-EiC) of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Associate EiC or Springer Nature/China SAE Automorive Innovation, and he was the general chair of 2022 IEEE/AIAA ITEC+EATS. He is a Fellow of IET and Senior Member of IEEE. He obtained several honors including the FUTURA Award (2016), NSF Career Award (2017), the Masao Horiba Awards honorable mention (2019), Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards honorable mention (2022) and he is the co-recipient of best paper and presentation awards including the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics best paper award (2019) and the MIT A+B best paper award (2022). His primary research interests are the design and control of power electronic systems with specific focus on energy storage and motor drive systems for electrified transportation, renewable-energy, and smart grid applications.

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