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).
Brij Singh
Keynote Speaker
PhD, John Deere Technical Fellow
Electrification R&D Manager in John Deere USA
Bio
Dr. Brij Singh (Fellow IEEE) is John Deere Technical Fellow in Power Electronics Engineering and serving as the Electrification R&D Manager in John Deere USA. He has authored or coauthored 105 research papers, 41 granted US patents, and one trade secret. His current research interests include wide bandgap technologies, power electronics for precision agriculture, vehicles’ electrification, electric motor control systems, and power conversion systems. Dr. Singh won three innovation awards and one collaboration award. He also won the 2020 IEEE Power Electronics Emerging Technology Award and has served as the IEEE Power Electronics Society Distinguished Lecturer (PELS DL) for term 2021-2024 and presently serving as the Chair of PELS DL Program. In 2023, US Department of Energy recognized Dr. Singh’s outstanding contributions and insightful technical expertise by Distinguished Achievement Award.
Bulent Sarlioglu
Tutorial Speaker
PhD, Fellow of IEEE and NAI
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director of Technology and Collaboration at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Bio
Bulent Sarlioglu is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as the Director of Technology and Collaboration at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium. His career started in the industry, where from 2000 to 2011, he worked at Honeywell International Inc.'s Aerospace
Division in Torrance, CA, USA, most recently as a Staff Systems Engineer.
Dr. Sarlioglu's work has significantly advanced the field of electrical machines, drives, and power electronics, particularly in electrifying transportation and industrial applications. His expertise is underscored by his impressive accolades, including 26 U.S. and numerous international patents and over 340 published technical papers.
Dr. Sarlioglu's dedication to the field is unwavering. His active involvement in numerous IEEE activities, including serving as Chair of the PES Motor Subcommittee and the IAS Transportation Committee, and as vice chair of PELS TC4 Electrified Transportation Systems. He was nominated and selected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Vehicle Technology Society (2021-2025) and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society (2019-2021). He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2016 and the 4th Grand Nagamori Award from the Nagamori Foundation in Japan in 2018, a testament to his significant contributions and influence in the field. He received the prestigious IEEE PES Cyril Veniott Award in 2021 and the IEEE PELS Outstanding Achievement Award in Aerospace Power in 2024. He became a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2021 and an IEEE Fellow in 2022.
Yujia Cui
Tutorial Speaker
Senior Hardware Development Engineer, Rockwell Automation
Bio
Yujia Cui is a Senior Hardware Development Engineer at Rockwell Automation, specializing in the design and validation of industrial drives across a wide power range. In recent years, he has been actively engaged in investigation, feasibility evaluation, and implementation of innovative technologies for next-generation industrial products and applications. Driven byan engineering and data-oriented mindset, he is actively advancing the integration of AI/ML into industrial drive systems using physics-informed and data-driven approaches. He is also a proactive practitioner of data-centric product design, test automation, and lifecycle management to enhance product robustness, process scalability, and development efficiency. His primary research interests include industrial drives design, industrial data analytics, AI for engineering applications, and data-oriented workflow
automation. He holds over 20 U.S. patents and IEEE publications and earned his M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
AMY ROBINSON
Tutorial Speaker
Senior Staff Application Engineer, Synopsis
Bio
Dr. Amy Robinson received her M.S. and Ph.D. In Electrical Engineering in 2019 and 2022, respectively, from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a UConn BS alumna and was a UConn undergraduate research assistant from 2015-2018 focusing on switching algorithms for renewable energy generators and switched reluctance machine topologles. After receiving her
BS degree, Dr. Robinson worked at the Natlonal Institute of Standards and Technology to get her doctorate in electromagnetics. Her thesis "Rydberg Atoms for RF Measurements" documents how atoms can be used as electromagnetic detectors. Dr. Robinson now works at Synopsys (formerly Ansys) teaching engineers around the country how to bring complex
designs into simulation.