The team consisting of Prof Henry Chung (Professor), Dr Leanne Chan (Associate Professor), Dr Tang Sai Chun (Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; EE PhD graduate 2000), Dr Chow Po Wa (EE PhD graduate 2017), and Prof Nathan Judson McDannold (Professor of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School) has received the IEEE PELS Best ECCE Paper on Emerging Technology Award. The winning paper published in the proceedings of the 9th IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2017) is titled “Design of a Wireless Power Transfer System for Devices Carried by a Freely Moving Animal in Cage”.
The award was presented to the team by the IEEE Power Electronics Society at the ECCE 2018 held at Portland, Oregon, USA where a multi-disciplinary group of researchers, engineers and scientists from all over the world gathered to present and exchange break-through ideas relating to the energy conversion systems and technologies.