July 28, 2026 Roy earns service award for early-career researchers Written By: Staff Departments: Electrical & Computer Engineering Categories: Alumni | Faculty The IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) has honored Jinia Roy, the Thomas A. Lipo Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with its Young Professional Exceptional Service Award. With the award, the society recognizes PELS members who have graduated with their first professional degree within the past 15 years and who have provided exceptional service to the welfare of PELS. Roy is a senior member of IEEE who has more than 15 years’ experience in power electronics, including several years with GE Research in Niskayuna, New York, and National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado. At UW-Madison, she’s an associate director of the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium. She works on a range of applications, including WBG-based PV inverters, integrating renewable energy on the grid, pulsating power buffer, and pulsed power converters for medical, defense, space and fusion applications. The award is the latest among many IEEE honors for Roy, including IEEE PELS PhD Thesis Talk (1999), IEEE/PEDES’96 Award for the Best Thesis in Power Electronics (2013), and best paper awards (IEEE IECON 2014 and APEC 2017). She has been a regional distinguished lecturer for IEEE PELS since 2024 and an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics since 2022.