E-PiCo+ Winter School 2026

The 2026 E-PiCo+ Winter School took place on the Centrale Nantes Campus.

The Winter School aims to offer scientific and technical lectures addressing current and future challenges in e-mobility. 
It provided an exciting opportunity for students to broaden their knowledge and expand their horizons. 

With a lineup of distinguished speakers delivering engaging lectures, participants gained fresh insights into the field of e-mobility. Students could connect theory with real-world practice, thanks to speakers' professional experience and engage in lively discussions and Q&A sessions.

The Winter School received the support of:

• TESLA - DO NASIMENTO Marcos and YAP Maverick
• DEKRA - LEFEVRE Solenne
• MERCEDES-BENZ - Dr.Ing. SAUR Michael
• dSPACE - CIRIT Arel Can
• SEMIKRON DANFOSS - BLONDEL Gael
• RENAULT - LOUDOT Serge
• NATIONAL INSTRUMENT - ABDELMASSIH Steven
• SIEMENS ENERGY - EL RAWAS Tarek
• UNIMORE - BURGIO Paolo
• ANALOG DEVICES - THIRUNAVUKKARASU Santhosh
• KIEL UNIVERSITY - Prof. TAN Nadia and LI Rui

 

Students were also given the opportunity to present and defend their own projects.
The 4 best projects received the congratulations of the jury:

•  "Deep-learning Sensorless Rotor Position Estimation for PMSM Drives" - Duc Hieu BUI
•  "Learning-Based Inverter Nonlinearity Compensation in PMSM Drives via NARX-RNN Augmentation" - Esteban RUA
• "Estimation of PMSM Electromagnatic Torque Using AI" - Barnabas BABATUNDE
• "Machine Learning-Based SOC and SOH Estimation for Lithium-Ion Batteries - CNN, BP, LSTM and BiLSTM Models" - Xinxin ZHANG

See here the complete programme of the E-PiCo+ Winter School 2026.