Prof. Om P. Malik

IEEE Life Fellow, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

University of Calgary, Canada

Dr. Malik graduated in electrical engineering in 1952 and obtained a Master’s degree in electrical machine design in 1962. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of London and a D.I.C. from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London in 1965. Dr. Malik worked in electric utilities in India from 1952 to 1961 and spent one year, 1959-60, as a Confederation of British Industries Senior Scholar with manufacturing companies in the U.K. He taught at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, from 1966-68 and joined the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1968. He was acting Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 1981, Associate dean (Academic) from July 1979 to December 1990, and Associate Dean (Student Affairs) from July 1995 to December 1998. At present he is Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary. Dr. Malik is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Can. Academy of Eng., IET, EIC, Engineers Canada and World Innovation Foundation. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Provinces of Alberta and Ontario. Among other awards, he has received the APEGGA Heritage Foundation Research Excellence Award, APEGGA Volunteer Service Award, IEEE Canada General A.G.L. McNaughton Medal, IEEE Western Canada Council Merit Award, IEEE Centennial Medal, IEEE Millennium Medal, IEEE PES Electric Machinery Committee and Technical Council Distinguished Service Awards, Eng. Inst. of Canada CPR Engineering Medal, Faculty of Eng. Univ. of Calgary Distinguished Lifetime Leadership Award, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng. Research Excellence Award, and been admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary. He is past-chair of the IEEE PES Electric Machinery Committee, 2011-2012 Chair of the IEEE PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee and is also a member of the IEEE PES Technical Council. He was a member of the IEEE MGA Board and IEEE Board of Directors as Director, IEEE Region 7 (Canada), President IEEE (Canada) for 2010-2011 and President, Engineering Institute of Canada for 2014-2016. 

Prof. Francisco de Leon, 

FIEEE, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Power Systems

New York University, US

He received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. In 1992, he obtained the Ph.D. degree, also in electrical engineering, from the University of Toronto, Canada. From 1992 to 1997, he was with the Graduate Division of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at IPN, Mexico. From September 1997 to August 1998, he was on sabbatical leave at McGill University in Montreal, and from September 1998 to April 1999, he served as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto.

From 1999 to 2007, he held several academic positions in Mexico and worked for the Canadian electric industry in the research and development of standard and special motors and transformers. From 2004 to 2007, heserved as the Director of R&D at CYME International T&D in St. Bruno (Quebec), where he developed professional-grade software for the analysis of power and distribution systems, as well as cable ampacity. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University (previously known as Brooklyn Poly and now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering) as an Associate Professor in September 2007. He obtained tenure in 2013 and was promoted to full Professor in 2019. In 2015, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow.

He has numerous publications, including 132 journal papers (over 100 in the IEEE Transactions), 5 book chapters, 14 discussions, 53 conference papers, and 18 patents. His papers have been cited over 4,500 times in Scopus and more than 7,300 times in Google Scholar. He has attracted over $6 million in external funding. So far, he has graduated 29 Ph.D. and 31 M.Sc. students with thesis, and has mentored hundreds of undergraduates. He has also directed the research of 20 postdoctoral fellows and 7 visiting Ph.D. students.

His primary areas of interest include the transient and steady-state analyses of power systems, the analysis of power definitions under nonsinusoidal conditions, the dynamic thermal rating of cables and transformers, as well as the calculation of electromagnetic and thermal fields applied to machine design and modeling.

Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.

Prof. Qiang Yang, 

IEEE Senior Member, BCS & IAAM Fellow

Zhejiang University, China

Qiang Yang (M’03-SM’18) received Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from Queen Mary, University of London, London, U.K., in 2007 and worked in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, U.K., from 2007 to 2010. He visited the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria Canada as a visiting scholar in 2015 and 2016. He is currently a full Professor at the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, and has published more than 300 technical papers, filed 60 national patents, co-authored 2 books, and edited 2 books and several book chapters. His research interests over the years include smart energy systems, large-scale complex network modeling, control and optimization, learning based optimization and control. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), a Senior Member of IEEE, IET and the Senior Member of China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof. Sergey Verlan, 

University Paris Est Créteil, France

2022-present: He is a Full Professor at the University of Paris Est Créteil, IUT de Sénart-Fontainebleau.

2005-2022: He served as an Associate Professor at the University of Paris Est Créteil, UFR Sciences.

2010: He completed his habilitation thesis at the University of Paris Est, titled "Study of Language-Theoretic Computational Paradigms Inspired by Biology."

2004: He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Metz, with the thesis titled "Head Systems and Applications to Bioinformatics."

2001: He earned a DEA (Master 2) in Informatique from the University of Metz.

2000: He received a Master’s in Applied Mathematics from the State University of Moldova.

His current research interests lie in the areas of formal language theory, natural/DNA computing, complex dynamic systems, and FPGA design. He is particularly focused on the computational power of different models, including decidability and computational completeness, as well as the universality problem. He is also working on the implementation of parallel unconventional computing models in FPGA hardware, with primary applications in robotics. Other research topics of interest include bioinformatics and systems biology.

Prof. Yanjiao Chen

IEEE Senior Member

Zhejiang University, China

Yanjiao Chen received her B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2010 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2015. She is currently a Bairen Researcher in the College of  Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. Her research interests include ML security, AI in networking, and mobile sensing. Yanjiao has published papers in ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, ICDCS, etc. Yanjiao has served on the editorial board of IEEE WCL and served as TPC member in IEEE INFOCOM, NDSS,  ICNP, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Muhammad Junaid

IEEE Senior Member

China University of Mining and Technology, China

Muhammad Junaid received his Ph.D. (2020), M.S. (2015), and B.Eng. (2011) in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Power system engineering. Since late 2020, he has been serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at King's College Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, and a Lecturer in Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, SARHAD University of Science & Information Technology, in Pakistan.