Distinguished Lecture Series : Analytical Methods for Modulation of Multilevel Converters

Carlo Cecati (Fellow, IEEE) received the Dr. Ing. degree in electrotechnical engineering in 1983. Since then, he has been with the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, where since 2006 he has been a Professor in industrial electronics and drives with the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Qianren Talents Professor (1000 Talents Program Distinguished Professor) with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. His research interests include power electronics, distributed generation, smart grids and transportation electrification.,Prof. Cecati was the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics from 2013 to 2015. He was a corecipient of the 2012 and the 2013 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, of the 2012 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine and of the 2019 Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. In 2017, he was a recipient of Antony J. Hornfeck Award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is the Chief Technical Officer with DigiPower srl, L’Aquila, Italy, an innovative R&D SME active in the field of power electronics.