Deepak Divan, EBL Global Steering Chair
Presentations from EBL-I teams:
Chetan Singh Solanki - Team SouLS and Olusegun Odunalya - Team Havenhill
Deepak Divan is Professor, John E Pippin Chair, GRA Eminent Scholar, and
Director of the Center for Distributed Energy at the Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, GA. His research is in power electronics, power
systems, smart grids, and distributed control of power systems. He works
with utilities, industry and is involved in research, teaching, entrepreneurship
and starting new ventures.
Dr. Divan has founded or seeded several new ventures including Soft
Switching Technologies, Innovolt, Varentec and Smart Wires, which together
have raised >$160M in venture funding. Dr. Divan is an elected Member of the
US National Academy of Engineering, member of the National Academies
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, a Fellow of the IEEE, past
President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and is a recipient of the IEEE
William E Newell Field Medal and was Global Chair of the first Empower a
Billion Lives global competition. He has 40 years of academic and industrial
experience, 75 issued and pending patents, and over 400 refereed
publications. He received his B. Tech from IIT Kanpur, and his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Calgary, Canada.
Deepak Divan, EBL Global Steering Chair
Presentations from EBL-I teams:
Chetan Singh Solanki - Team SouLS and Olusegun Odunalya - Team Havenhill