A/ProfYam Siwakoti

Associate Professor Yam Siwakoti is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and an internationally recognised researcher in power electronics, high-density power conversion, advanced magnetics, and energy conversion technologies. He received his PhD in Electronic Engineering from Macquarie University in 2014 and subsequently served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark (2014–2016). He has also held visiting appointments at the University of Oxford as a Visiting Professor (2023) and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany, as a Visiting Scientist (2018 and 2023).

His research has received significant national & international recognition, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2022), the Green Talents Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research- Germany (2016), and the SmartGRID Innovation Award (2025). He was also recognised as a Field Leader in Power Engineering by The Australian Research Magazine (2023).

He is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (FT26) and leads research on next-generation high-density power converters for energy, transportation, aerospace and digital infrastructure. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.