From September 25 to 29, 2022, the International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and Application (ICHVE 2022) was held in Chongqing. Wang Feipeng, the chairman of ICHVE and professor of Chongqing University, on behalf of the IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society Award Committee, announced the selection result of the two major IEEE Young-Professional Achievement Awards in the field of dielectric and electrical insulation in 2022: “IEEE Steven A. Boggs Young-professional Achievement Award” and "IEEE Caixin Sun and Stan Gryzbowski Young-professional Achievement Award”. Li Chuanyang, a young teacher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics (EEA) of Tsinghua University, won the IEEE Steven A. Boggs Young-professional Achievement Award for his outstanding achievement in the research on surface charge accumulation, partial discharge and flashover phenomenon, and he became the first Chinese scholar to win this award. Yang Yang, an alumnus of EEA, won the IEEE Caixin Sun and Stan Gryzbowski Young-professional Achievement Award for his pioneering achievement in the field of self-healing of electrical damage in dielectrics.

Left: Professor Wang Feipeng granted the award certificate to Li Chuanyang; Right: Yang Yang gave an academic report at the ICHVE

Award certificates

IEEE Steven A. Boggs Young Professional Achievement Award is established by IEEE in memory of Steven A. Boggs, an electrical insulation expert. This award is selected every two years and granted to one winner worldwide to recognize his significant achievement in the field of dielectric and electrical insulation. The IEEE Caixin Sun and Stan Gryzbowski Award is established by IEEE to commemorate the outstanding contribution made by Academician Sun Caixin of Chongqing University and Professor Stanislaw Grzybowski of Mississippi State University in the field of high-voltage technology. This award is selected every two years and one lifetime achievement award winner and one young professional achievement award winner are selected globally each time. Among them, the Young Professional Achievement Award is granted to the young researcher who is engaged in challenging subjects in the field of high-voltage or dielectric materials and have achieved the first major achievement. The award winner gives a speech at the biennial IEEE International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and Application (ICHVE). Each of the winners of the two Young Professional Achievement Awards will receive USD 5000 and medals from Steven A. Boggs Fund and Academician Sun Caixin Education Foundation of Chongqing University. The IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Institute (DEIS) is responsible for the nomination and selection of outstanding candidates worldwide. The selection committee is composed of senior experts in the field of high-voltage insulation from different countries and regions. (See details: https://ieeedeis.org/about/awards/)

Winner profile:

Li Chuanyang

Li Chuanyang, assistant researcher of Tsinghua University. In 2014, he graduated from the School of Electrical Engineering of Taiyuan University of Technology (under the guidance of Professor Song Jiancheng). In 2018, he received a doctor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University (under the guidance of Professor He Jinliang). From 2018 to 2022, he was engaged in post doctoral research at the University of Bologna in Italy, the University of Connecticut in the United States, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He has published more than 60 SCI papers in the field of high-voltage electrical equipment and insulation, which have been cited for more than 2000 times; His papers published in Appl Phys. Lett. and J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., etc have won more than ten awards including Editor’s Pick, Highly Cited Paper, and Featured Article. He is the associate editor of High Volt IEEE Trans. Dielectr. Electr. Insul. and three CSEE JPES journals, as well as reviewer of more than 30 journals. In recent five years, he has been granted the award for outstanding reviewers of world renowned journals including High Volt. and J Phys. D: Appl. Phys., etc for 6 times; He has served as the chairman of the branch venues, member of the technical committee, and convener of the working group of IEEE and other important international academic conferences for more than 10 times. He has served as a member of the annual committee of CEDIP 2022-2024, the top international conference of IEEE high voltage insulation industry, and the executive director of the high voltage surface discharge technology committee of IEEE PES China High Voltage Insulation Technical Committee; He has also served as the guest editor of High Volt, J Phys. D: Appl. Phys. and IEEE Trans. Dielectr. Electr. Insul., etc. He was granted the 2020 IEEE Caixin Sun & Stan Grzybowski Young Professional Achievement Award.

Yang Yang

Yang Yang, a postdoctoral researcher of Simpson Querrey Institute of Biological Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, USA. In 2014, he graduated from Mao Yisheng College and the School of Electrical Engineering (his graduation design supervisor is Professor Wu Guangning) of Southwest Jiaotong University. He was recommended to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics of Tsinghua University without examination and studied under Professor He Jinliang. In 2019, he received a doctor’s degree in electrical engineering. His is engaged in the research on smart dielectric materials and self-assembled organic supramolecular ferroelectrics, etc. He has published more than 20 papers in Nature Nanotechnology, Matter, Advanced Science and other international journals; he was the reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, High Voltage and other international journals; he served as the chairman of branch conference of ICHVE and other international academic conferences, and a member of CIGRE NGN of China. he has won the “Aishi Yanghua Medal” — the highest individual honor of Southwest Jiaotong University in 2013, the first prize of the 2013 National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest (the first prize in Group A), and the honor of outstanding doctoral graduates in Beijing in 2019.