IES-ONCON 2025 will prize one paper that will be decided by the Chair of the Prize committee in discussion with the Prize committee members. The details of the prize follow:
Title: IEEE IES President’s Selection: IES-ONCON 2025 Best Paper Prize Prize Value: $1000
Selection Process: Top 10% of the accepted papers are invited to submit a maximum 10 slides and 3 mins video along with the final version of the six page manuscript, demonstrating the novelty and completeness of the work. Note that Experimental Verification of the proposed concept is mandatory. In the video authors need to show as clearly as possible that the experimental setup is working to confirm the novelty. 10 slides should be arranged as:
Slide-1: Introduction, Slides 2 and 3: Literature Survey, Slides-4: Identify the objective of the work and clearly state Novelty, Slides-5: Proposed system configuration, Slides-6 and 7, Analysis and Simulation Results, Slides-8: Experimental results, Slides-9: Conclusion, Slides-19: References.
Once the Power Point Slides and Videos are evaluated, the authors of top three papers will be asked to make a 15 mins on-line presentation. The prize will be given to the best of these three papers.
Conflict of Interest: Authors having co-author with any of the General Chairs OR Technical Program Chairs OR Track Chairs are not eligible to contest.
Announcement of the result: December 13, 2025
Shortlisted papers are as follows:
Authors will be informed for the next course of action from the Chair soon.
ONCON25-000164
Power Systems and Smart Grid
ONCON25-000143
Power Systems and Smart Grid
ONCON25-000040
Industrial Automation, Communication, Networking, and Informatics
ONCON25-000108
Electrical Machines and Drives
ONCON25-000140
Control, Robotics, and Mechatronics
ONCON25-000129
Power Electronics & Energy Conversion
ONCON25-000151
Cloud Computing, Big Data and Software Engineering
ONCON25-000139
Control, Robotics, and Mechatronics
ONCON25-000054
Electrical Machines and Drives
ONCON25-000037
Electrical Machines and Drives
ONCON25-000063
Control, Robotics, and Mechatronics
ONCON25-000196
Power Systems and Smart Grid
ONCON25-000152
Renewable Energy Generation and Harvesting
ONCON25-000110
Power Systems and Smart Grid
ONCON25-000159
Renewable Energy Generation and Harvesting
ONCON25-000131
Electrical Machines and Drives
ONCON25-000015
Cloud Computing, Big Data and Software Engineering
ONCON25-000191
Cloud Computing, Big Data and Software Engineering
ONCON25-000186
Power Electronics & Energy Conversion
Note: Any paper having any co-author who is a General Chair/Technical Program Chair/Track Chair is NOT eligible. For papers from Special Sessions, if the SS Organizer is one of the co-authors, the paper is not eligible for the prize.
Prize Committee:
Honorary Chair: TBA
Chair: TBA
Members: Chairs or their representative from the TCs from which the papers are selected
