IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of Institute membership, conferred only by elevation by the Board of Directors. Candidates must be IEEE Senior Members with at least five years of cumulative IEEE membership at any grade except Affiliate. The nominator is responsible for preparing the formal nomination form through the IEEE Fellows Portal; identifying a minimum of 3, but not more than 5 IEEE Fellows, capable of assessing the candidate’s contributions, who agree to serve as references; identifying an IEEE Society or Council whose evaluating committee will assess the candidate’s technical qualifications and contributions. Through the Fellows Portal, the nomination package is sent to the Fellows Committee, which must review all nominations and assessments, and prepare a ranked list. The total number of Fellow recommendations each year cannot exceed 0.1% of IEEE voting membership, excluding Affiliates. For more information on the Fellows Program, please visit the Fellows website at https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/index.html.
Fellows Committee
Chair: Jason Lai, Virginia Tech
Vice Chair: Marta Molinas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Committee Members:
Kwok Chau
Fei Gao, University of Technology at Belfort Montbeliard
Bhuvaneswari Gurumoorthy, Mahindra University
Hao Huang
Mingzhou Xu
TEC Participants Elevated to IEEE Fellow as of January 2026
*See the IEEE Fellows Directory for all IEEE Fellows
Rolando Burgos
For contributions to high-power-density power electronics and stability of electronic power systems
Yaobin Chen
For contributions to automated vehicle safety and vehicle electrification
Chia-Chi Chu
For contributions to distributed control and stability assessment in microgrids
Rami Debouk
For contributions to automotive functional safety concepts and standards
Maeve Duffy
For contributions to advances in the modelling of planar magnetics and wireless power
Xiangjun Li
For contributions to operation control and energy management of grid battery energy storage systems
Yung C. Liang
For innovative contributions in designing power semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for power electronic applications
Katherine Pearsall
For technical leadership to the electronics packaging industry in the area of supply chain management
Thomas Schneider
For contributions to energy policy and leadership in advancing energy storage for grid applications
Abhisek Ukil
For contributions to grid integration of renewable energy with advanced protection
