Every year, the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society offers fellowships to eligible graduate students who are pursuing areas of work of interest to the society.
To learn more about the fellowship or apply for a future one, check out the Education portion of the DEIS website here.
Below are the 2024 fellows (in alphabetical order):
Haoyu Gao

Haoyu Gao was born in Shanxi Province, China in 1997. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China. His main research interests include the space charge measurement technology for the solid dielectric.
Project Title: “Real-time measurement methodology for space charge with nano-scale spatial resolution based on terahertz pulsed excitation and optical ellipsometry detection”
Junluo Li

Junluo Li was born in Shandong Province, China, in 1998. She received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from North China Electric Power University, Beijing, in 2020. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University. Her research interests focus on improving the electrical performance of polymer dielectrics, with a particular emphasis on high-energy-density and high-temperature film capacitor dielectrics.
Project Title: “Enhancing Electrical Insulation Properties of Polymer Dielectrics through Conformational Regulation”
Baptiste Robbiani

Baptiste Robbiani received the Engineering degree in Material Sciences from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon, France in 2020. Since 2022, he is pursuing a PhD at University of Toulouse in the Laplace – Laboratory on Plasma and Energy Conversion – in the Solid Dielectrics and Reliability group. His research focuses on using luminescence techniques to analyze electrical and mechanical degradation in insulators.
Project Title: “Electroluminescence and mechanoluminescence of model epoxy resins to investigate electromechanical degradation mechanisms”
Rui Wang

Rui Wang was born in Jilin Province, China in 1998. He received his Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering at Jilin University in 2022. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include the stretchable polymer electret material and its application in energy harvesting.
Project Title: “Development of stretchable electret material and its application to energy harvester for skin electronics”
Daoming Zhang

Daoming Zhang (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, China, in 2019. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Advanced Dielectric Materials Group at the School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. His research interests include the design and fabrication of nonlinear electrically conductive materials, focusing on advancing the development of smart dielectric materials for future electrical power systems.
Project Title: “Design and Synthesis of All Organic Self-Adaptive Dielectrics with Tunable Nonlinear Electrical Conductivity”