Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani, an electrical engineering graduate student in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received a best presentation award in the Low Voltage DC-DC Converters Technical Session of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. Credit: Provided by Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani
Electrical engineering grad student wins best presentation award
Apr 10, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani, an electrical engineering graduate student in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received a best presentation award for his poster and presentation during the “Low-Voltage DC-DC Converters” technical session of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2025), which took place March 16-20 in Atlanta.
The paper, “Design and Implementation of a GaN-Based Soft-Switched Series-Capacitor Buck Converter Operating at the CCM-DCM Boundary for High-Performance Computing Systems,” was co-authored by Khorasani’s adviser, Madhavan Swaminathan, the William E. Leonhard Professor and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Kolman Puterman, who graduated in December 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
The paper, which highlighted the authors’ recent work on a soft-switched 12-volt-to-1-volt voltage regulator module, was completed in collaboration with Penn State’s Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES), led by Swaminathan.
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