Prof Akshay Kumar Rathore is an IEEE Fellow and expert in power electronics and control of electric motor drives. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. From November 2010 to February 2016, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical  and  Computer  Engineering, National  University  of Singapore. From March 2016-Dec 2021, he served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical  and  Computer  Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada where he was listed in the Provost Circle of Distinction in 2021. He served as Graduate Program Director and Chair of Graduate Awards during 2020-21. From Jan 2022 to June 2025, he served as a Professor and Programme Leader (Electrical Power Engineering) at Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore.
Prof. Rathore received the Gold Medal for securing the highest academic standing in his Master’s degree among all electrical engineering specializations at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India in 2003. He received his PhD degree in Power Electronics from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 2008. He had two subsequent postdoctoral research appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany (2008-2009), and the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (2009-2010).
Prof. Rathore is a recipient  of  the  2013  IEEE  IAS  Andrew  W.  Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award, 2019 IES Publications Service Recognition Award, 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Area Chair Award, 2020  IEEE  Bimal  Bose  Award  for  Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, 2021 Nagamori Award, and 2023 Distinguished Alumna Award (Young Achiever)-IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India. He published about 300 research papers in international journals and conferences, including 110 IEEE TRANSACTIONS. He has one approved EU patent on Optimal Pulse width Modulation of Multilevel Inverters that is licensed to WEG, Brazil. His pioneering work on the world’s first Snubberless Current -fed DC/DC Converters and fundamental device switching frequency control of Medium Voltage Multilevel Inverters for high power industrial drives is widely accepted and referred.
Prof. Rathore is currently serving as the co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee member of Industrial Electronics Society, member of the IEEE Nikola Tesla Award Committee, IEEE Medal in Power Engineering Committee, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Power Electronics Society. Since 2017, he has been serving on the Executive Board of the IEEE Industry Applications Society in various roles such as Member-at-Large, Awards Department Chair, and MSDAD Chair. He has been an AdCom member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society since 2021. He has Chaired IEEE IAS Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems Committee (2022-2023), IEEE IAS Industrial Automation and Control Committee (2018-19) and IEEE IAS Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification (2016-17). In addition, he has participated in many ad hoc and standing committees.
Prof has served as the Paper Review Chair (eq. to co-Editor-in-Chief) of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2016-17 and 2020-21), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE IES Technology News (ITeN) (2016-18), Associate Editor of various journals, i.e., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2014-19), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2013-2019), IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (2014-19), IEEE Journal of Emerging Selected Topic in Power Electronics (2013-19), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2016-19), IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2014-2021) and IET Power Electronics (2015-19). He edited 8 special issues on the topics of electric transportation, EV charging, marine systems, more electric aircraft, machine learning in power electronics, and renewable energy conversion in different IEEE Transactions as a guest associate editor and as guest-EIC of 2 special issues.
Prof. Rathore has edited one book entitled Advanced Concepts and Technologies in Electric Transportation published by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis) in 2023. In addition, he has contributed to four book chapters in four different books.