Biography:

- Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Neural Networks Society

- Author of two textbooks:

1) Fundamentals of Electric Drives published by Brooks/Cole, 2000.
2) 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 patents

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