PES FellowsThe IEEE Fellow Award Is special recognition for IEEE Members with extraordinary accomplishments in the IEEE technical fields. To ensure that the recognition is extraordinary, the total number of recipients each year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total higher grade membership.

As chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Fellows Committee, I congratulate the following outstanding PES members for their accomplishments.

Venkat Sharma Kolluri

The Class of 2017

Kankar Bhattacharya

for contributions to electricity markets and reactive power ancillary services
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Raymond Byrne

for contributions to miniature robotics and grid integration of energy storage
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William Dickerson

for leadership in precision clock and synchrophasor technologies
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Xinzhou Dong

for contributions to traveling wave-based transmission line protection and fault location
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Zhaoyang Dong

for contributions to development of computational methods for power system stability and planning
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Janaka Ekanayake

for contributions to education in renewable energy integration and smart grid
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Bhuvaneswari Gurumoorthy

for contributions to design and development of enhanced power quality converters
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Zhenyu Huang

for contributions to dynamic analysis and high performance computing in power systems
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Juri Jatskevich

for contributions to modeling of electric machines and switching converters
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Chongqing Kang

for contributions to power system operation and planning in uncertain environments
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Fangxing Li

for contributions to locational marginal price calculation
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Kallianpur Padiyar

for contributions to education in power systems and application of power electronics
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Veselin Skendzic

for contributions to technologies and standardization in power system protection
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Sushil Soonee

for leadership in developing operational methods for power grid
interconnection in India
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Jianzhong Tong

for contributions to real-time power system operations
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Edson Watanabe

for contributions to the application of power electronics for power conditioning
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Terry Ericsen

for leadership in power electronics
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Laszlo Huber

for contributions to ac-dc power converters for portable electronics equipment
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Dianguo Xu

for contribution to control of electrical drives and power electronic converters
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Qing-chang Zhong

for contributions to power electronic systems control
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Lennart Harnefors

for contributions to control and dynamic analysis of power electronic systems
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Sang Bin Lee

for contributions to off-line testing and on-line condition monitoring for ac electric machines
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Pablo Estevez

for contributions to feature selection and visualization of large data sets
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Sri Niwas Singh

for leadership and contributions to power engineering education
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Jin Jiang

for contributions to methodology, design, and evaluation of engineering systems safety
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