Professional Summary: Since 1981, This Ph.D. has been at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program and the Power Electronics and Motor Drives Laboratory. He is the author of over 350 publications in pulsed-power supplies, high-voltage engineering, power electronics, motor drives, and advanced vehicle systems and is the recipient of the Prize Paper Awards in Static Power Converters and motor drives at the IEEE-Industry Applications Society 1985, 1987, and 1992 Annual Meetings, as well as numerous other honors and recognitions. He is the co-author of 16 books on power electronics, motor drives and advanced vehicle systems, including Vehicular Electric Power Systems, Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2003 and “Modern Electric Hybrid Vehicles and Fuel Cell Vehicles –Fundamentals, Theory, and Design,” CRC Press, 2004. He has over 30 granted or pending US and EC patents. His current research work is in power electronics, motor drives, hybrid vehicles and their control systems.
This Expert has been a member of IEEE PowerElectronics Society (PELS) AdCom, past Chairman of PELS Educational AffairsCommittee, past Chairman of IEEE-IAS Industrial Power Converter Committee andpast chairman of the IEEE Myron Zucker Student-Faculty Grant program. He was the General Chair of IEEE PowerElectronics Specialist Conference for 1990. He is the founder of IEEE Power and Propulsion Conference, the foundingchairman of the IEEE VTS Vehicle Power and Propulsion and chairman ofConvergence Fellowship Committees. In 2002 he was elected to the Board ofGovernors of VTS. He also serves on theeditorial board of several technical journals and is the associate editor ofIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on VehicularTechnology. He is a Fellow of IEEE, anIEEE Industrial Electronics Society and Vehicular Technology SocietyDistinguished Speaker, IEEE Industry Applications Society and Power EngineeringSociety Distinguished Lecturer. He isalso a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. |
Expertise: § Advanced Vehicle Power andPropulsion Systems
§ Applications ofMicrocomputers to Power Control
§ Control Systems
§ Electric Hybrid Vehicles
§ Electrical Failures andHazards
§ Electronics
§ Energy Storage Systems
§ High Voltage Direct Current(HVDC) Power Transmission
§ High Voltage Engineering
§ Motor Drives
§ Novel ElectromagneticMachines
§ Power Electronics
§ Pulsed Power Systems
§ Solid State Power Systems
§ Specialized Power Systems |