{"689825":{"#nid":"689825","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Student, Faculty Help Georgia Tech Take First at IEEE MagNet Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn interdisciplinary team that included graduate student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/dongmin-li\u0022\u003EDongmin Li\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE) earned first place at the prestigious \u003Cstrong\u003EIEEE Power Electronics Society 2025 MagNet Challenge\u003C\/strong\u003E, outpacing 39 teams from around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELi worked alongside ISyE Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/xiaochen-xian\u0022\u003EXiaochen Xian\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Assistant Professor Baoyun Ge, ECE graduate students Piyush Chauhan and Yuanhao Mo, and Le Chang, an engineer from General Motors. The team was honored for its innovative approach to modeling magnetic systems, an area critical to the performance and efficiency of modern power electronics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe MagNet Challenge tasks student teams with developing advanced software algorithms that learn from existing training data and accurately predict magnetic behavior in previously unseen materials and operating conditions. Competitors are evaluated on both modeling accuracy and robustness, with applications spanning electric vehicles, power converters, motors, and transformers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDrawing on engineering principles in modeling, optimization, and data-informed decision-making, the team developed a physics\u2011informed prediction model based on mechanical analogies for magnetic systems. The approach allowed the model to explicitly capture complex nonlinear effects, including saturation, hysteresis, eddy currents, and displacement currents, that have long challenged engineers and researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir model significantly reduced prediction errors across five different testing materials, operating over a wide range of switching frequencies (from 50 kHz to 800 kHz) and temperatures between 25\u00b0C and 70\u00b0C, outperforming all other competitors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project spanned 10 months, beginning in March 2025, and reflects ISyE\u2019s growing role in tackling complex, interdisciplinary engineering challenges through advanced modeling and data-driven methods. The team has since submitted two provisional patents related to the technology developed during the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award was formally presented at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference on March 24, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas. Hosted by Princeton University and Dartmouth College, the MagNet Challenge was sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society along with industry leaders including Nvidia, Texas Instruments, W\u00fcrth Elektronik, ITG Electronics, and pSemi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor ISyE, the win highlights the impact of its students and faculty in shaping next-generation solutions at the intersection of systems engineering, computation, and emerging energy technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EAn interdisciplinary Georgia Tech team including an ISyE graduate student and faculty member earned first place at the IEEE Power Electronics Society 2025 MagNet Challenge, a global competition focused on advancing magnetic modeling.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An ISyE\u2011represented Georgia Tech team took first place at the IEEE Power Electronics Society 2025 MagNet Challenge for work addressing a major bottleneck in power electronics."}],"uid":"36736","created_gmt":"2026-04-17 14:29:23","changed_gmt":"2026-04-17 14:30:54","author":"ebrown386","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679988":{"id":"679988","type":"image","title":"IEEE MagNet Challenge Winners","body":null,"created":"1776436172","gmt_created":"2026-04-17 14:29:32","changed":"1776436172","gmt_changed":"2026-04-17 14:29:32","alt":"IEEE MagNet Challenge Winners","file":{"fid":"264217","name":"magnet.jpg.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/17\/magnet.jpg.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/17\/magnet.jpg.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8217713,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/04\/17\/magnet.jpg.jpeg?itok=ICcRpO8R"}}},"media_ids":["679988"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}