The first award was the IEEE Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award for her contributions to modeling and control of multilevel converters for medium- and high-power energy conversion systems.

The award honors innovators and researchers who have made outstanding and sustained technical contributions to the advancement of power electronics in modeling and control. She will be presented with the award at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition this October in Phoenix.

Saeedifard also won the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems.

She received the honor for  her work on renewable energy integration and transmission, as well as protection and stability analysis of multi-terminal HVDC grids.

The award recognizes a young researcher who has made significant contributions to the advancement of energy systems through industrial electronics applications. The award will be presented to her at the IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference this November in Chicago, where she is also one of the plenary speakers.

Saeedifard joined ECE as an assistant professor in spring 2014, specializing in power electronics and modular energy conversion systems for both terrestrial and mobile power systems.

Her research has garnered numerous national and international awards, including several prize paper awards for her impactful IEEE Transactions publications, as well as being recognized as an IEEE Fellow by the Power Electronics Society in 2022. She also serves as co-editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

She was recently appointed a Ken Byers Professor in ECE and serves as the School’s inaugural director of Faculty Evaluation and Recognition.

Since the start of her academic career in 2010, she has successfully advised and graduated 13 Ph.D. students and five M.S. students.