ePOWER Faculty Members outside of Queen's University, Outside Canada
ePOWER Faculty Members outside of Queen's University, Outside Canada
Dr. Gerry Moschopoulos
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Ontario
Publications include approximately 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 140 articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Power Electronics
Technical Program Committee Co-Chair: IEEE EPEC 2015, IEEE INTELEC 2014, IEEE CCECE 2013 and 2014
Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair: IEEE APEC 2011 - and IEEE ECCE 2011 and 2015.
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Power Electronics
Co-Chair of the Power Sources Manufacturers Association Industry-Education Committee
Design Engineer with Advanced Power Systems Division of Nortel from 1996-8
Member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario
Dr. John Lam
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University
Founder and Director of the Advanced PowerElectronics Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at York University
Over 110 IEEE research publications include approximately 40 peer-reviewed journals
Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Guest Editor: IET Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics in Industrial Electronics
Guest Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications
Technical Committee:IEEE PELS – Technical Committee on High-Performance and Emerging Technologies, IEEE PELS – Technical Committee on Electronic Power Grid Systems.
Recipient of:
Lassonde Innovation Award – Early Researcher, School of Engineering, York University, 2020
2nd prize paper award from IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2022
Dr. Francis Dawson
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto where he is engaged in teaching and research
Francis Dawson (S’86-M’87) received a B.Sc degree in physics and a B.ASc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1978, 1982, 1985, and 1988, respectively
He worked as a process control engineer in the pulp and paper, rubber and textile industries during the period 1978-1980
From 1982 to 1984 he acted as a consultant on various projects. Development areas included high-frequency link power supplies, power supplies for specialized applications and high current protection circuits
His areas of research interest include static power converters and their applications, signal processing in power engineering applications, energy storage systems and device or process modeling
He has also participated as a Consultant or Project Leader in several industrial projects
Member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and an IEEE Fellow
Dr. Mohamad Youssef
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, OntarioTech Engineering & Applied Science
Research interests include: Propulsion Systems for the Automotive and Innovative Technologies like Hyperloop; Power Train for New Drives like Water Pumps; Railway Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC); Railways Traction Substation Design Planning, and Commissioning; Power Electronics Applications for the Information Technology (IoT); Power Electronics Applications in the Innovative Renewable Energy Resources; Power Supply Design for the Oil/Gas; Power Systems Operation and Stability.
Dr. Kamal Al Haddad
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Ecole De Technologie Superieure
Recipient of the 2023 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering, the highest honor that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member of the Power electronics and industrial control research group, ETS
Research interests include: sustainable development, circular economy and environmental issues; intelligent and autonomous systems; aeronautics and aerospace.
Dr. Wai Tung Ng
Wai Tung Ng is a Professor at The Edward S. Rogers. Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto.
Research interests cover a wide spectrum, ranging from smart power ICs, power management ICs, integrated DC-DC converters, smart gate driver ICs, silicon and GaN power semiconductor devices, advanced CMOS and RF BJTs.
Prof. Ng serves as the director of the Toronto Nanofabrication Centre at the University of Toronto since 2014. He is also an associate editor for IEEE Electron Device Letters since 2009.
Prof. Ng is also the chair for the Technical Committee in Power Devices and ICs for the IEEE Electron Devices Society (since 2018).
Dr. Harry Ruda
Dr. Ruda, Professor, Stanley Meek Chair in Advanced Nanotechnology & Director, Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology
Professor Ruda’s research program focus on semiconductor nanostructures for nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. In the former area, they are looking at conventional electron transport as well as quantum transport and spintronics, while in the latter area we are looking at cavity effects, nonlinear optical effects, plasmonics.
Harry Ruda was one of the founders of a Canadian National Centre of Excellence in Photonics. He serves on the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada and on other government panels including those of the DOE, EPA and NSF in the US, and the RAE and EPSRC in the UK. He serves on the international advisory board of the National University of Science and Technology in Moscow. He also has served on the editorial boards of: Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Nanotechnology Research Letters, and is currently Editor in Chief of IET Circuits Devices and Systems.
Dr. Gregory Welch
Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
Recipient of Killam Emerging Research Leader Award, UofC. 2021
Research interests include: Organic Solar Cells; Printed Electronics; Carbon Dioxide Conversion
Faculty of Science, Awards of Excellence Scholarship Excellence, Early Career Award, UofC. 2020
Dr. Pritam Das
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
In 2023, he won a five-year, $537,959 NSF CAREER Award for his research on "Multi-level Bridge Tapped Resonant (MBTR) Solid-State Transformers (SSTs)
Research interests include: Wide-band gap devices-based integrated power converter topologies and printable high-frequency magnetic components for solid state transformer; Energy storage integration in smart grid; Reliable and high efficiency high-power LED drives for smart commercial lighting; Electrified transportation; Single high-frequency stage, high slew rate 48 volts to sub-1 volt point-of-load converters; Data centers; Modeling and control of flow batteries
Dr. Ranjan Behera
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Research interests include: Design and Fabrication of Power Electronics Circuits, Control of Electrical Drives, Application of Nonlinear Control Theory to Power Electronics and Electric Drives, Pulse Width Modulation Techniques for Power Electronics