Paresh C. Sen

Paresh C. Sen

Awards

IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award

Biography

Paresh C. Sen’s conception, development, analysis, and control of advanced power electronics and innovative electric drive systems have been advancing the state of the art for over 50 years. His pioneering work on thyristor control of reactive power eliminated bulky and inefficient rotating machines and paved the way for the static power compensators that are widely used in the power industry for efficient voltage regulation. His design and development of chopper control of induction motors has provided simple and effective control of pump drives. His innovative vector control using stator flux orientation has contributed to the development of a new generation of high-performance ac motor drives. His recent work includes techniques to eliminate flicker in LED lighting and control strategies for wind energy conversion systems.

An IEEE Life Fellow, Sen is the Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queens’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.