Congratulations to Aria Delmar and AJ Bali for receiving presentation awards at the 2026 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) in Cambridge, UK.
Aria Delmar received a Best Presentation Award, while AJ Bali received a Best Poster Award for their research presented at the conference.
Congratulations to Aria and AJ on representing the Stillwell Power Group and Illinois ECE at COMPEL 2026!
Along with a large cohort of UIUC Power Students, SPG graduate students Ryan Billings and Aidan Rodgers received the Grainger Power Award. The Other Dr. Stillwell also showed up in support.
SPG Undergraduate Researchers Sandra Georgy, Alec Loessy, Dora Stavenger, and Jonathan Sengstock were also honored with the award!
Members of the SPG and friends gathered at the Dr. Stillwells’ house to enjoy camaraderie and dinner. Special thanks to the other Dr. Stillwell for help hosting and photography.
Andrew Freeman and William Vavrik were awarded the Grainger Power Engineering Award for 2025. They joined an excellent class of undergraduate and graduate UIUC power engineering students for a night of celebration with Power and Energy faculty and Grainger College of Engineering leadership. Congratulations!
Stillwell Power Group researchers William Vavrik, Aria Delmar, and Andrew Freeman volunteered at the Girl Power Event, hosted by the Stillwell Research Group and Abbott Power Plant. More than 40 Girl Scouts from Illinois and Indiana learned about energy, power generation, and hands-on trade skills, including welding from Abbott staff and UIUC graduate students. Huge thanks to Abbott Power Plant for hosting the amazing event.
The Stillwell Power Group joined the Stillwell Research Group in supporting our Illini Men’s Gymnastics team in their victory over Nebraska.
Dr. Stillwell spoke with CBS News about the Illinois electricity generation mix and its implications for powering the Chicago Transit Authority. The opinions and perspectives expressed are his own.
Stillwell Power Group Graduate Research Assistant Aria Delmar has received the Qualcomm Graduate Award for Spring 2025! Aria was recognized for her academic excellence and her research into point-of-load power converters for high performance compute loads.
The SPG met over Finals Week in Fall of 2024 to blow off some steam at Urbana Boulders . Fun was had, and no one was injured.
The Stillwell Power Group participated in the UIUC Coordinated Science Laboratory Compute Energy Nexus Workshop. The workshop brought together internal and external experts to discuss two major societal, research and technology-specific topics: 1) Data Centers and Energy Optimization, and 2) Data Centers and Smart Grid. Dr. Stillwell gave a talk titled: Point-of-Load Converters: Status and Future (special thanks to Dr. Yicheng Zhu for contributing slides) and Aria Delmar and William Vavrik presented a poster on their work for current-sourced Point-of-Load converters.
