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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Houqiang Fu.
Dr. Houqiang Fu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. Dr. Houqiang Fu’s research interests are wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors, devices, and systems, including power electronics and ICs, HEMTs, extreme-environment devices, optoelectronics, photonics, MOCVD growth, and reliability and failure analysis. Dr. Houqiang Fu received his PhD in 2019 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, which have been collectively cited more than 1600 times (Hirsch index of 25). Dr. Houqiang Fu has been the recipient of several academic prizes, including ISU Regents Innovation Fund Award, ASU Palais Outstanding Doctoral Award, and ASU Outstanding Research Award. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Houqiang Fu for his outstanding achievements.
As the awardee, Dr. Houqiang Fu will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of June 2023 in Electronics after peer-review, and an electronic certificate.
We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Editor-in-Chief, Electronics
Electronics 2022 Young Investigator Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Yongzhi Cheng
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Costas Psychalinos
University of Patras, Physics Department
Prof. Dr. Marco Mussetta
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Enzo Pasquale Scilingo
University of Pisa
Prof. Dr. Luis M. Fernandez-Ramirez
University of Cadiz
Dr. Stefanos Kollias
Dr. Jinjun Feng
Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute
Prof. Elias Stathatos
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of the The Peloponnese
Winner
Kai-Da Xu
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. giambattista gruosso
Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Xiongfeng Ma
Tsinghua Unviersity
Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis
University of Piraeus
Winner
Houqiang Fu
Iowa State University, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Xiongfeng Ma
Tsinghua Unviersity
Prof. Boris Andrievsky
Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Elias Stathatos
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of the The Peloponnese
Prof. Dr. Nikolay Hinov
Technical University of Sofia
Prof. Dr. Kiat Seng Yeo
Winner
Amir H. Gandomi
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Lucas Lamata
Universidad de Sevilla
Dr. Felix Sunjoo Kim
Prof. Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad
Prof. Dr. Yoichi Hayashi
Meiji University, Dept. Computer Science, Head of AI Lab.
Prof. Yosef Pinhasi
Ariel University
Prof. Erich Leitgeb
TU Graz
Prof. Dr. Jaime Lloret
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Prof. Dongkyun Kim
Winner
Shahar Kvatinsky
Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Technion
Winner
Juan Carlos Vasquez Quintero
Aalborg University
Juan Carlos Vasquez Quintero
Aalborg University
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