Little Box Challenge Academic Awards



Last July, Google and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) announced the Little Box Challenge, a competition designed to push the forefront of new technologies in the research and development of small, high power density inverters.

In parallel, we announced the Little Box Challenge award program designed to help support academics pursuing groundbreaking research in the area of increasing the power density for DC-­to­-AC power conversion. We received over 100 proposals and today we are proud to announce the following recipients of the academic awards:

Primary Academic Institution
Principal Investigator
University of Colorado Boulder
Khurram K. Afridi
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Huang-Jen Chiu
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
José A. Cobos
Texas A&M University
Prasad Enjeti
ETH Zürich
Johann W. Kolar
University of Bristol
Neville McNeill
Case Western Reserve University
Timothy Peshek
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski
University of Stuttgart
Jörg Roth-Stielow
Queensland University of Technology
Geoff Walker

The recipients hail from many different parts of the world and were chosen based on their very strong and thoughtful entries dealing with all the issues raised in the request for proposals. Each of these researchers will receive approximately $30,000 US to support their research into high power density inverters, and are encouraged to use this work to attempt to win the $1,000,000 US grand prize for the Little Box Challenge.

There were many submissions beyond those chosen here that reviewers also considered to be very promising. We encourage all those who did not receive funding to still participate in the Little Box Challenge, and pursue improvements not only in power density, but also in the reliability, efficiency, safety, and cost of inverters (and of course, to attempt to win the grand prize!)

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