Dr. Dushan Boroyevich
Dr. Dushan Boroyevich
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), USA
Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Past President, IEEE Power Electronics Society
IEEE Fellow
Fellow, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE)
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Biography:
Dushan Boroyevich received Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade in 1976 and M.S. degree from the University of Novi Sad in 1982, in what then used to be Yugoslavia. He received Ph.D. degree in 1986 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, USA.
From 1986 to 1990, he was an Assistant Professor with and the Director of the Power and Industrial Electronics Research Program, Institute for Power and Electronic Engineering, University of Novi Sad, where he later became the Acting Head of the institute. He then joined the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, as an Associate Professor. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus with the same department, where he is also the Director Emeritus of the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES). He led numerous research projects funded by industry and government where he supported and advised more than 150 graduate students and visiting scholars, and co-authored with them over 1,000 technical publications and 27 patents, which were referenced by other authors over 50,000 times.
Dr. Boroyevich was the President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2011 to 2012. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He was a recipient of the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Technical Field Award and IEEE Power Electronics Society's Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award. He is an honorary professor at six Chinese universities.
 

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