ePOWER Faculty Members outside of Queen's University, Outside Canada

 
Dr. Gerry Moschopoulos

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

Dr. John Lam

  • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University
  • Founder and Director of the Advanced Power Electronics 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

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​

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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

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

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. 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

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

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

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
  • Senior Member IEEE