S. Refaat received the BASc, MASc, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2002, 2007, and 2013, respectively, all from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. He has worked in the industry for more than 12 years as Engineering Team Leader, Senior Electrical Engineer, and Electrical Design Engineer on various electrical engineering projects. Currently, he is an associate research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a member of the Smart Grid Center – Extension in Qatar (SGC‐Q). He has published more than 105 journal and conference articles. His principal work area focuses on electrical machines, power systems, smart grid, Big Data, energy management systems, reliability of power grids and electric machinery, fault detection, and condition monitoring and development of fault‐tolerant systems. Also, he has participated and led several scientific projects over the last eight years. He has successfully realized many potential research projects.
Omar Ellabban (S’10–M’12–SM’13) is a senior researcher and creative manager with more than 20 years of combined experiences (teaching, research, industrial experience, consulting services and project management) between academia, research institutes, industry and power utility companies in various fields.
Dr. Ellabban is conducting and leading many research projects in different areas, such as: power electronics, electric vehicles, automatic control, motor drive, energy management, grid control, renewable energy, energy storage devices, distributed energy systems and their integration into the smart grid. Dr. Ellabban received his BS (Hons) degree in electrical machines and power engineering from Helwan University, Egypt; his MS degree in electrical machines and power engineering from Cairo University, Egypt; and his PhD (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from Free University of Brussels, Belgium, in 1998, 2005, and 2011, respectively. He joined the Research and Development Department, Punch Powertrain, Sint‐Truiden, Belgium, in 2011, where he and his team developed a next‐generation, high‐performance hybrid powertrain. In 2012, he joined Texas A&M University in Qatar as a postdoctoral research associate and became an assistant research scientist in 2013, where he is involved in different renewable energy integration projects. In 2016, he joined Iberdrola Innovation Middle East as the Research and Development Director to lead a number of research, development and innovation projects under various topics focusing on transforming the current electric grid into a smart grid and integrating renewable energies and energy storage systems interfaced by power electronics converters as microgrids penetrating the distribution networks. In 2020, he joined CSA Catapult as Principal Power Electronics Engineer to lead different projects focusing on Compound Semiconductors applications across different sectors.
Dr. Ellabban has authored more than 70 journal and conference papers, one book chapter, two books entitled, “Impedance Source Power Electronic Converters, 2016” and “Smart Grid Enabling Technologies, 2020” and many international conference tutorials. His current research interests include renewable energies, grid control, smart grid, automatic control, motor drives, power electronics, and electric vehicles. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IET member and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
Sertac Bayhan received the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. In 2008, he joined the Electronics and Automation Department, Gazi University, as a Lecturer, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. From 2014 to 2018, he worked at Texas A&M University at Qatar as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Scientist. Dr. Bayhan is currently working in the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) as a Senior Scientist and he is a faculty member with the rank of Associate Professor in the Sustainable Division of the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
Dr. Bayhan is the recipient of many prestigious international awards, such as the Research Fellow Excellence Award in recognition of his research achievements and exceptional contributions to the Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2018, the Best Paper Presentation Recognition at the 41st and 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2015 and 2016, Research Excellence Travel Awards in 2014 and 2015 (Texas A&M University at Qatar), and Researcher Support Awards from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He has acquired $13 M in research funding and published more than 150 papers in mostly prestigious IEEE journals and conferences. He is also the coauthor of two books and four book chapters.
Dr. Bayhan has been an active Senior Member of IEEE. Because of the visibility of his research, he has recently been elected as Chair of IES Power Electronics Technical Committee and selected as a Co‐Chair of IEEE‐IES Student and Young Professional Activity Program. He currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Industrial Electronics Technology News, and Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
Haitham Abu‐Rub is a full professor holding two PhDs from Gdansk University of Technology (1995) and from Gdansk University (2004). Dr. Abu Rub has much teaching and research experience at many universities in a number of countries including Qatar, Poland, Palestine, the USA, and Germany.
Since 2006, Dr. Abu‐Rub has been associated with Texas A&M University at Qatar, where he has served for five years as chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Program and has been serving as the Managing Director of the Smart Grid Center at the same university.
His main research interests are energy conversion systems, smart grid, renewable energy systems, electric drives, and power electronic converters.
Dr. Abu‐Rub is the recipient of many prestigious international awards and recognitions, such as the American Fulbright Scholarship and the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. He has co‐authored around 400 journal and conference papers, five books, and five book chapters. Dr. Abu‐Rub is an IEEE Fellow and Co‐Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
Frede Blaabjerg (S’86–M’88–SM’97–F’03) was with ABB‐Scandia, Randers, Denmark, from 1987 to 1988. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992, an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Full Professor of power electronics and drives in 1998. From 2017, he became a Villum Investigator. He is honoris causa at University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), Romania and Tallinn Technical University (TTU) in Estonia. His current research interests include power electronics and its applications such as in wind turbines, PV systems, reliability, harmonics and adjustable speed drives. He has published more than 600 journal papers in the fields of power electronics and its applications. He is the co‐author of four monographs and editor of 10 books in power electronics and its applications. He has received 32 IEEE Prize Paper Awards, the IEEE PELS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, the EPE‐PEMC Council Award in 2010, the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award 2014, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Research Award 2014, the Global Energy Prize in 2019, and the 2020 IEEE Edison Medal. He was the Editor‐in‐Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics from 2006 to 2012. He has been Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 2005 to 2007 and for the IEEE Industry Applications Society from 2010 to 2011 as well as 2017 to 2018. In 2019–2020 he serves as President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is also Vice‐President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. He was nominated in 2014–2019 by Thomson Reuters
