During the Gala Dinner of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives 2025 (IEEE SDEMPED 2025)", Dalas, TX, Dr. Konstantinos Gyftakis, Associate Professor of the ECE School of the Technical University of Crete, was honoured to receive the prestigious "Diagnostics Achievement Award (DAA)" from the SDEMPED International Steering Committee.
This award is presented every two years, during the IEEE SDEMPED, the leading international conference of this scientific field, to recognize a researcher with a strong track record of impactful and outstanding contributions in the field of condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, and prognosis of electrical machines, power electronics, and drives.
Past award recipients
- 2009: Thomas Habetler (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- 2011: Gerard A Capolino (University of Picardie "Jules Verne", France)
- 2013: Fiorenzo Filippetti (University of Bologna, Italy)
- 2015: Elias Strangas (University of Michigan, USA)
- 2017: Sang Bin Lee (Korea University, S. Korea)
- 2019: Jose A Antonino-Daviu (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
- 2021: No award
- 2023: Pascal Maussion (University of Toulouse, France)
Finally, it should be noted that the Electrical Machines Lab team (EMLab) of the Technical University of Crete made a strong presence in the IEEE SDEMPED 2025 edition, presenting 7 papers in critical areas such as: the reliability of wind turbine and wave energy harvesting generators, stator inter-turn short circuit and eccentricity faults in industrial induction motors and the electromagnetic analysis of DOL permanent magnet motors.
