Announcement of the Best Student Paper Award*

At the closing ceremony of the PEDSTC 2024 Conference held on Thursday, February the first 2024, winners of the Best Student Awards were announced and received their certificates and prizes as follows:

The best student paper award was presented to Mr. Ali Nadermohammadi

For the paper co-authored by Pouya Abolhassani, Mohammad Maalandish, Ali Seifi, Pouneh Aghakhanlou, and Seyed Hossein Hosseini titled "Soft-Switching Ultra-High Step-Up DC-DC Converter Featuring Coupled Inductor and Low Voltage Stress on Switches".

The second-best student paper award was presented to Mr. Amirhossein Moghani

For the paper co-authored by Majid Arabahmadi, and Hossein Torkaman titled "Hybrid Excited Two-Phase Switched Reluctance Motor with Improved Torque Characteristics".

The third best student paper award was presented to Mr. Faramarz Faraji

For the paper co-authored by Honnyong Cha titled "Flying Capacitor Clamped Current Source Inverter with Improved Reliability".

Announcement of the Candidates for Best Student Paper Award

The PEDSTC 2024 organizing committee herein announces the candidates for the Best Student Paper Award will be granted during the farewell ceremony of the conference.

Selection of the candidates for the best student paper award was not an easy task when numerous good papers were submitted and accepted for presentation at the PEDSTC 2024 conference and have the potential for such a competition.

Authors of six shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email, asking them to prepare and submit a one-page letter of nomination to the organizing committee (via pedstc2024@gmail.com), highlighting the strengths and unique contributions of their work to the power electronics community. The deadline for submission of the letter of nomination is January 24, 2024.

• Three student papers will be awarded as follows:
  - The first rank will receive the certificate plus 50 M (IRR)
  - The second rank will receive the certificate plus 40 M (IRR)
  - The third rank will receive the certificate plus 30 M (IRR)

The announcement of these awards will occur during the farewell ceremony of PEDSTC 2024.

The candidates in a random order are as follows:

A Novel RSCC for Balancing the Series Connected Battery Cells Voltages

Yasin Izadi and Reza Beiranvand

Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Comparison of Different Permanent Magnet Arrangements in E-Type Outer-Rotor Doubly-Salient Motors

Mohammad Reza Sarshar, Mohammad Amin Jalali, Mojtaba Mirsalim, and Amir Khorsandi

Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Direct Integration of Rooftop Photovoltaic Generation in Electric Railway Systems: Optimizing Power Flow and Efficiency

Mohsen Davoodi, Omid Nasirkhani, Hamed Jafari Kaleybar, and Morris Brenna

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Hybrid Excited Two-Phase Switched Reluctance Motor with Improved Torque Characteristics

Amirhossein Moghani, Majid Arabahmadi, and Hossein Torkaman

Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Soft-Switching Ultra-High Step-Up DC-DC Converter Featuring Coupled Inductor and Low Voltage Stress on Switches

Ali Nadermohammadi, Pouya Abolhassani, Mohammad Maalandish, Ali Seifi, Pouneh Aghakhanlou, and Seyed Hossein Hosseini

University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Flying Capacitor Clamped Current Source Inverter with Improved Reliability

Faramarz Faraji and Honnyong Cha

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea (South)

* By definition a conference paper will be considered as a student paper if and only if at least one of its co-authors is a student and the paper is presented by him/her during the conference.