Members of the SPG and friends gathered at the Dr. Stillwells’ house to enjoy comradery and dinner. Special thanks to the other Dr. Stillwell for help hosting and photography.
Category: Success
Freeman and Vavrik Awarded Grainger Power Awards
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!
Delmar Receives Qualcomm Graduate Award!
SPG presents at CSL Compute Energy Nexus Workshop
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 […]
COMPEL 2024 a Success!
Aria Delmar presented “Control and Modeling of Current-Sourced Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Converters with Dynamic Loads” at the 2024 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) conference in Lahore, Pakistan. First author Will Vavrick was unable to attend, but the paper and presentation received excellent feedback.
Bali wins Best Presentation Award at APEC 2024 in Long Beach, CA
AJ Bali won a best presentation award for his talk titled “A 7-Level Interleaved Hybrid Active Neutral Point Clamped Converter for High-Frequency Low-Inductance Motors” at the 2024 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).
Vavrik receives James M. Henderson Fellowship
SPG researcher William Vavrik received the James M. Henderson Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship was established to recognize an outstanding first-year graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The fellowship is awarded based upon the nominee’s undergraduate academic achievement, as well as leadership in activities or research as an […]