Dushan Boroyevich honored with emeritus status
Dushan Boroyevich, professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The emeritus title may be conferred on retired faculty members who are specially recommended to the board by Virginia Tech President Tim Sands in recognition of exemplary service to the university. Nominated individuals who are approved by the board receive a copy of the resolution and a certificate of appreciation.
Boroyevich is a Virginia Tech alumnus, receiving his Ph.D. in power electronics in 1986. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Belgrade and a master’s degree from University of Novi Sad, in what then used to be Yugoslavia. After returning to the University of Novi Sad as an assistant professor, he founded the power and industrial electronics research and education programs there before joining the Virginia Tech faculty in 1990.
In 1998, Boroyevich and Fred Lee led a team of faculty from Virginia Tech and four other universities that received funding for the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, which became the Center for Power Electronics Systems, the first such center headquartered in Virginia. He served as the center's director from 2017-21, after Lee retired.
For more than 34 years, Boroyevich led numerous research projects funded by industry and government in the areas of multiphase power conversion, electronic power distribution systems, modeling and control, and multidisciplinary design optimization of power electronics converters. Within these projects, he sponsored and advised more than 100 graduate students, as well as numerous visiting scholars, and co-authored with them over 1,000 technical publications and 27 patents, which were referenced by other authors almost 50,000 times. In the classroom, he taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical and computer engineering. In the last 10 years, Boroyevich has focused his activities on developing and promoting his vision for mitigating the energy impacts of power electronics by building a new global electronic network for generation, transmission, and distribution of renewable electrical energy.
Boroyevich is a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and served as president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2011-12. He also received the William E. Newell Power Electronics Technical Field Award and the Power Electronics Society Harry A. Owen Distinguished Service Award, both from IEEE. In addition, Boroyevich received numerous honors and recognitions from professional power electronics organizations in Europe and Asia. He is a member of Virginia Tech's Academy of Engineering Excellence and of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
He holds an honorary professorship at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, and China University of Mining and Technology; the Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor at Zhejiang University in P.R. China; as well as the Kwoh-Ting Li Chair Professor at the National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan Republic of China. In 2023, he was awarded with the honorary title of doctor honoris causa from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czechia.
Anja Hemesath, a senior and a student writer for Virginia Tech Communications and Marketing, contributed to this story.
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