University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jinia Roy is Thomas A. Lipo Assistant Professor at UW Madison and an Associate Director of Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC). Before joining UW Madison, she was with GE Research, Niskayuna, NY and with the NREL, Golden, Colorado for 6 years. She has 14+ years of experience in the field of power electronics. Throughout her career she has worked on various government and business funded projects related to WBG based PV inverters, grid integration of renewable energy, pulsating power buffer, and pulsed power converter for medical, defense and fusion applications. She is currently leading a DoD funded effort on development of light weight high efficiency power management for space applications.
She was the recipient of the 2019 IEEE PELS Prize Ph.D. Thesis Talk. She also was the recipient of the IEEE/PEDES’96 Award for the Best Thesis in Power Electronics from IIT Kanpur, 2013 and two Best Paper Presentation Awards at ‘IEEE IECON 2014’ and ‘APEC 2017’.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM ET