Ali Emadi, Ph.D.

Ali Emadi (S'98-M'00-SM'03, IEEE) received the B.S. (1995) and M.S. (1997) degrees in electrical engineering with highest distinction (he ranked first among all SUT students in 1995 with highest GPA) from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran. He also received his Ph.D. degree (2000) in electrical engineering, specializing in power electronics and motor drives, from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, where he was awarded the Electric Power and Power Electronics Institute (EPPEI) fellowship for his graduate studies.

Dr. Emadi is the director of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center (EPPEC) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he has established research and teaching facilities as well as courses in power electronics, motor drives, and vehicular power systems. He is also the founder, director, and chairman of the board of the Industry/Multi-university Consortium on Advanced Automotive Systems (IMCAAS). His main research interests include modeling, analysis, design, and control of power electronic converters/systems and motor drives. His areas of interest also include integrated converters, vehicular power systems, and hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles.

Dr. Emadi is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He has been named the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year 2003 by virtue of his outstanding contributions to hybrid electric vehicle conversion, for excellence in teaching, and for his involvement in student activities by the Eta Kappa Nu Association, the Electrical Engineering Honor Society. He also received the 2005 Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. In 2005, he was selected as the Best Professor of the Year by the ECE students at IIT. Dr. Emadi is the recipient of the 2002 University Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT as well as the 2004 Sigma Xi/IIT Award for Excellence in University Research. He directed a team of students to design and build a novel low-cost brushless DC motor drive for residential applications, which won the First Place Overall Award of the 2003 IEEE/DOE/DOD International Future Energy Challenge for Motor Competition.

Dr. Emadi is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was the General Chair of the 2005 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion and SAE Future Transportation Technology Joint Conference. He is the principal author/co-author of over 160 journal and conference papers as well as several books including Vehicular Electric Power Systems (Marcel Dekker, 2003), Energy Efficient Electric Motors (Marcel Dekker, 2004), Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Active Filters (CRC Press, 2004), and Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles (CRC Press, 2004). Dr. Emadi is also the editor of the Handbook of Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives (Marcel Dekker, 2005).