Abhay Kumar (Jain) awarded IEEE Fellowship
Features | 27.02.2026 | 2 min read
IEEE is the world’s largest technical organisation promoting advanced technology, founded in 1912. An IEEE Fellow award is reserved for selected IEEE members whose extraordinary achievements in one of the IEEE’s areas of interests are considered worthy of this prestigious promotion. At Hitachi Energy, we were therefore very excited to celebrating the IEEE Fellow Class 2026 award to Abhay Kumar with a ceremony and acknowledgement with colleagues at Uno Lamm HVDC Center in Ludvika on January 15.
Abhay Kumar (Jain) is Senior Principal Project Lead Engineer at HVDC Hitachi Energy in Ludvika, Sweden. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee in India and started his professional career in 1982 and has been with Hitachi Energy (including previously with ABB) since 1995; overall working in HVDC field over 40 years. Recently he has been playing a key role in executing several 800 kV UHVDC Projects and Saudi-Egypt. He has been active in several IEEE, IEC and CIGRE working groups and is regular member for CIGRE SC B4 representing Sweden. He is recipient IEEE PES Uno Lamm HVDC Award (2019), IEC 1906 Award (2020) and CIGRE Honorary Member Award (2022). He is already Fellow of Institute of Engineers (India) since 2020.
I have had the privilege of working with HVDC technology throughout my career, a field that inherently champions sustainability. HVDC systems are well known for lower transmission losses, and the application of UHVDC technology further reduces these losses, making it a pivotal contributor to a more sustainable energy future
Hitachi Energy congratulates Abhay Kumar on this achievement, as conveyed by our MD Niklas Persson, Grid Integration Business Unit within Hitachi Energy. We are very proud of these acknowledgements and grateful for the dedication over several decades to the area of Ultra high voltage direct current (UHVDC) application.