Lecturer Biography  

Professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi

Lab Director
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
www.cialab.ee.washington.edu/

• Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Neural Networks Society
• Author of two textbooks
• fundamentals of Electric Drives published by Brooks/Cole, 2000.
• Electric Energy: An Introduction published by CRC press, 2004.
• Editor/co-editor of several IEEE tutorial books on Intelligent Systems and  Applications.
• Member of the administrative committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Council representing the Power Engineering Society.
• Multi- Media Tutorial Chair of the neural network Society.
• Founding Chairman of numerous IEEE task forces and working groups and subcommittees
• Member of the editorial board and associate editor of several journals
• Organized and taught several international tutorials on intelligent systems applications, power quality and power systems. ·   Chairman of the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives, Seattle , May 1999.
• Founder of the international conference on the Application of Neural Networks to Power Systems (ANNPS)
• Co-founder of the international conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power (ISAP).
• Organized and chaired numerous panel and special sessions in IEEE and other conferences.
• Consultant on electric safety, operation and control of electric systems, devices and circuits, and intelligent systems.
• Published over 200 papers and book chapters in his research areas.
• Holds 5 licensed patent