Alastair P. Thurlbeck

Alastair Thurlbeck (Student Member, IEEE) received the M.Eng. degree (first class honors) in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, in 2018. Mr. Thurlbeck is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. He has been a Research Scientist Intern at Amazon Prime Air in Seattle, WA, USA; a Project Assistant with the University of Glasgow; a Hardware Intern with Curtis Instruments in Livermore, CA, USA; and a Summer Intern with Arqiva in Winchester, UK. His research interests include power electronics, motor drives, energy conversion, fault tolerance, and reliability. Mr. Thurlbeck received the IEEE ITEC Conference Student Award in 2019. He was awarded the Gilbert Cook Prize in 2018, the William Dawson Bursary in 2015 and the Reid Foster prize in 2014 by the University of Glasgow. He was a recipient of the Diamond Jubilee Scholarship throughout his MEng degree, awarded by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2013.