PEDSTC 2026 Best and Acknowledged Papers Announced Based on the evaluations of the conference reviewers and session chairs, the Technical Committee of PEDSTC 2026 has selected two papers as the Best Papers and five papers as the Acknowledged Papers of the conference. We congratulate the authors on this achievement. Best papers: An Enhanced Sliding-Mode Observer-Based Sensorless Control With an Adaptive Online Parameter Estimation in SPMSMs Authored by: Armin Shabani - Amirhossien Fallah Khorshidi - Davood Arab Khaburi - Cristian Garcia - Jose Rodriguez An Independent Rise-Time Control Scheme for Voltage and Current in IGBTs under Quasi-Zener Loads, Authored by: Alireza Farsian - Hadi Nouri - Mostafa Zarghani Acknowledged papers: Voltage-Frequency Control of Standalone Single-Phase Inverter Based on Adaptive Backstepping Controller with State and Nonlinear Disturbances Observers: An Experimental Validation Authored by: Moslem Dehghani - Mahdi S. Mousavi - Daniel Pesantez - Seyyed Mohammad Bornapour - Mokhtar Aly - Jose Rodriguez Data-Driven Online Reinforcement Learning Predictive Control of Quadratic Buck Converter for Electrolyzer Application Authored by: Majid Rahmani - S. Alireza Davari - Reza Ghandehari - Mahdi S. Mousavi - Freddy Flores - Fengxiang Wang - Jose Rodriguez Development of a Fully Isolated High-Frequency Induction Heater for Cost-Sensitive Applications Authored by: Mahmood Khamesipour - Armin Shabani - Davood Arab Khaburi An Efficient High-Frequency Isolated Buck DC-DC ‎ Converter for DC-DVR Applications Authored by: Mahnaz Izadi - Ali Mosallanejad - Ahmad ‎ Salemnia - Alireza ‎ Lahooti Eshkevari Fault Diagnosis of AC–DC Converters in Series Hybrid Electric Vehicle Power Supplies using Convolutional Neural Networks Authored by: Mahmood Moghadasian - Seyed-Saeid Moosavi-Anchehpoli - Moslem Rahimpour

To download a certificate, please log in to your account, go to the My Papers section, and select the relevant paper. Then, in the Files section, click on the PDF file named Certificate to download the certificate for that paper. Please note that a separate certificate is available for each paper.

Dear Authors, Please log in to your My Papers profile no later than July 07 and, for each accepted paper, click on IEEE Electronic Copyright and complete the copyright process carefully. During the copyright submission process, please make sure to check the paper title carefully and confirm that it matches your accepted paper. Please also note that adding new authors is not possible after the version submitted for review . Therefore, the author list must remain the same as the submitted review version.

We are pleased to inform the authors that, following the correspondence and follow-up with IEEE, the IEEE PDF eXpress portal for PEDSTC 2026 has been reopened.

Authors and presenters are kindly invited to refer to the Conference Program section on the website to access these documents.

The PEDSTC 2026 conference workshop schedule is now available on the conference website.

Participants and authors can download the Conference at a Glance and the detailed Paper Presentation Program from the Conference Program section

Workshop registration for PEDSTC 2026 has been reopened due to the conference being held virtually; Workshop Registration deadline: June 7, 2026

Please refer to the guidelines provided under the Author Information section for detailed presentation instructions. (or click the following: Link )

The conference will be held virtually from 9–11 June 2026.

The conference has been postponed. The new dates will be announced.

The paper review results have been announced. Authors may view the results by logging into their user panel and accessing the My Papers section.

The Final Paper Submission Guidelines are now available on the conference website under the Final Paper Submission Guidelines menu.

The guide for workshop selection and payment is now available on the Workshop Payment Guide (hyperlink) page of the conference website. Participants are kindly requested to visit this page for detailed instructions on how to select their preferred workshop and complete the payment process.

The keynote speeches by Prof. Jose Rodriguez, Prof. Frede Blaabjerg, Prof. Mohamed Benbouzid, and Prof. Behrooz Bahrani will be delivered as online presentations, and the keynote speech by Prof. Hosein Farzanehfard will be delivered as an in-person presentation.

We are pleased to inform all interested participants and esteemed researchers that conference registration fee discounts are available to members of the IEEE, the Power Electronics Society of Iran (PELSI), and student participants. To apply for the discount, eligible applicants are kindly requested to first select the appropriate Registration Group in their user account under the My Profile section. Subsequently, please upload a valid document confirming your membership through the Send Document section for review. Upon verification and approval of the submitted membership document, the applicable conference discounts will be applied to the registration fees accordingly.

We are pleased to inform all interested participants that three workshops have been added to the conference workshops section. To register for each workshop, please visit the 'Services' section in your user account.

Due to many requests from authors, the PEDSTC 2026 has extended the paper submission deadline by one additional week. The final extended deadline for paper submissions is November 11, 2025.

The Iranian Power Electronics Society (PELSI) will hold a Best Thesis Competition during PEDSTC 2026 to honor outstanding theses and dissertations in power electronics at all academic levels.

We are pleased to announce that the Best Papers of PEDSTC2026 will be recognized and awarded during the conference.

In response to authors’ requests, the paper submission deadline for PEDSTC 2026 has been extended. The new deadline for paper submission is November 4, 2025.

We are honored to announce that Prof. Jose Rodriguez will serve as a keynote speaker at PEDSTC 2026.

All accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore online digital library.

We are pleased to announce that the PEDSTC 2026 Conference has officially received support from the IEEE.

We invite proposals for half-day workshops to be held on the opening day of PEDSTC 2026.

We are pleased to announce that the PEDSTC 2026 Conference has officially received support from the IEEE Iran Section.

We are honored to announce that Profs. Frede Blaabjerg, Hosein Farzanehfard, Mohamed Benbouzid, and Behrooz Bahrani will serve as keynote speakers at PEDSTC 2026 – The 17th Annual Power Electronics & Drives: Systems and Technologies Conference.

We invite researchers and experts to contribute as reviewers for PEDSTC 2026.