Debjyoti Chatterjee (pictured left), a Ph.D. student in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, received the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) First Place Paper Award. 

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) is a top journal in power electronics.

“The selection of the above paper is a high honor and a tribute to the fine research quality, presentation, and potential impact that the research has to the field. In addition to the normal process of nomination and votes of editors, TPEL had an industry evaluation board to finally select the papers to be awarded, which proves its value to the whole community, including practitioners,” said the committee.

The paper, “Overcurrent Limiting in Grid-Forming Inverters: A Comprehensive Review and Discussion,” was co-authored by Chatterjee with Nathan Baeckeland from National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Minghui Lu from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL),  Texas ECE associate professor Brian Johnson, and Gab-Su Seo from NREL.

This paper presents a systematic framework to understand how current-limiting strategies influence the dynamic behavior, stability, and fault recovery of grid-forming (GFM) inverters—key building blocks for reliable, inverter-dominated power systems.