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to that track. The second is that IEEE Open Journal of Power
Electronics (OJ-PELS) is interested in articles in this area, and
authors are encouraged to submit. OJ-PELS is a rapid-turn
publication with a seven-week submission-to-publication goal.
It began publishing in January 2020.

About the Authors
Kevin Hermanns (kevin.hermanns@pe-systems.de) graduated from the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany,
in 2013. He is the general manager of PE-Systems GmbH and
a member of the Design Automation for Power Electronics
Initiative within the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He
started his professional career at Siemens and has worked as
a research associate at the Technical University Darmstadt
in the Power Electronics Department. During that time, his
research interests were mainly focused on the distortions
of high-power converters. He is active in several national
and international standardization groups in the field of
power electronics.
Yarui Peng (yrpeng@uark.edu) received his B.S. degree
from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2012 and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, in 2014 and 2016, respectively. He is an assistant
professor in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas and leads the
Energy-Efficient Electronics and Design Automation Lab.
His research focuses on computer-aided design for multichip heterogeneous integration and high-efficiency power
electronics. He studies methodologies and algorithms for
signal integrity and reliability optimizations in 2.5D and 3D

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integrated circuits and develops design automation tools for
power electronics layout synthesis and electrothermal-
mechanical optimizations.
Alan Mantooth (mantooth@uark.edu) received his B.S.
(summa cum laude) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, in 1985 and
1986, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1990. He is an IEEE Fellow and the immediate past president of the IEEE Power
Electronics Society (PELS), and editor-in-chief of IEEE Open
Journal of Power Electronics. He is a distinguished professor
in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of
Arkansas, where he is also the 21st-century research leadership chair in engineering. He helps lead the PELS initiative on
design automation and spent eight years at Analogy working
in the modeling group for the Saber simulator. He continues
research in this area in the field of power electronics.

References
[1] A. Bindra and A. Mantooth, "Modern tool limitations in design automation: Advancing automation in design tools is gathering momentum,"
IEEE Power Electron. Mag., vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 28-33, Mar. 2019. doi: 10.1109/
MPEL.2018.2888653.
[2] IEEE Power Electronics Society Resource Center, "IEEE Design
Automation for Power Electronics Workshop," IEEE PELS, Piscataway,
NJ. Accessed on: Dec. 28, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://resourcecenter
.ieee-pels.org/proceedings/PELSPRO0021.html
[3] "IEEE Design Automation for Power Electronics (DAPE) Workshop,"
DAPE. Accessed on: Dec. 28, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://e3da.csce.uark
.edu/dape/2019

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