Rate My Professor Marko Hinkkanen

Marko Hinkkanen is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, where he leads the Electric Drives Group. He earned his M.Sc.(Eng.) degree in 2000 and D.Sc.(Tech.) degree in 2004, both in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology. His research specializes in electric machine drives and power electronic converters, focusing on modeling, analysis, control design, optimization, and advanced real-time algorithms for control, estimation, and identification. Hinkkanen has authored over 160 technical papers, including approximately 60 in IEEE journals, and holds several granted patents. Many of his developed algorithms have been implemented in commercial drive and converter products, contributing significantly to the field through practical industry applications and high-impact publications.

Hinkkanen's contributions have earned him prestigious recognition, including elevation to IEEE Fellow in 2023 for contributions to sensorless control of industrial motor drives. He received the SEMIKRON Innovation Award in 2020 for his group's work on bearingless linear motor drives, the Aalto ELEC Supervisor Award in 2022, and multiple best paper awards such as the IEEE Industry Applications Society Industrial Drives Committee Best Paper Award in 2016 and 2017, Industrial Power Converter Committee Second Prize Paper Award in 2019, and ICEM Brian Chalmers Best Paper Award in 2016. Notable publications include 'Robust analytic design of power-synchronization control' (2018, 287 citations), 'Analysis of an adaptive observer for sensorless control of interior permanent magnet synchronous motors' (2008, 278 citations), 'Modified integrator for voltage model flux estimation of induction motors' (2001, 275 citations), 'Design Framework for Sensorless Control of Synchronous Machine Drives' (2025), and 'Direct DC-Bus Control for Grid-Forming Converters: Toward the Concept of Dual-Voltage-Forming Converters' (2025). He serves as Associate Editor for IET Electric Power Applications and IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and contributes to technical program committees of major conferences like IEEE ECCE and ICEM, including as General Co-Chair of IEEE SLED 2018.