Keynote Speaker
Philip T. Krein
Grainger Endowed Chair Emeritus
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bio
Philip T. Krein holds the Grainger Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and is an Adjunct Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University. His current research interests include power systems and high-performance power electronics for data centers and AI systems, motor and drive system design, infrastructure for electric transportation, and renewable energy integration. He received the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award in 2003 and the IEEE Transportation Technologies Award in 2021. He holds 42 U.S. patents and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Illinois and Oregon, a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Haitham Abu-Rub
Keynote Speaker
PhD, IEEE Fellow
Professor, Electrical Engineering Department
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Bio
Haitham Abu-Rub is a professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and an adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). He received two PhDs, one in electrical engineering from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, in 1995, and the second Ph.D. degree in humanities from Gdansk University, Poland, in 2004. Abu-Rub has research and teaching experiences at many universities in many countries including Qatar, Poland, Palestine, USA, and Germany. He has served for five years as the chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at TAMUQ and for ten years as the managing director of the Smart Grid Center at the same university. Abu-Rub is the recipient of many national and international awards and recognitions. He is the recipient of Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt scholarships. Abu-Rub has published over 600 journal and conference papers, three patents, eight books, and eight book chapters. Abu-Rub is a Fellow of IEEE and is the Vice President for Publications at IEEE IES.
Arslan Munir
Keynote Speaker
PhD, Associate Professor
Director Intelligent Systems, Computer Architecture,
Analytics, and Security (ISCAAS) Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University
Bio
Dr. Arslan Munir is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Before joining FAU, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Kansas State University. He further served as a Visiting Professor at New York University (NYU), Abu Dhabi. He also held a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Nevada, Reno. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Rice University. He received his M.A.Sc. in ECE from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and his Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. He also worked as a software development engineer at Mentor Graphics (now Siemens) in the Embedded Systems Division.
Dr. Munir’s current research interests include embedded and cyber-physical systems, smart grid, secure and trustworthy systems, artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, parallel computing, and quantum computing. His name is included in the list of World’s Top 2% Scientists compiled by experts at Stanford University. His research has been sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)/National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).