Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Dr. Osama Mohammed, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, USA
Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE Fellow, ACES Fellow

Dr. Osama Mohammed is a distinguished professor and the director of the energy systems research laboratory. He was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, 2016-2023. Professor Mohammed is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He received the Prestigious Cyril Veinotte Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2010. Professor Mohammed has published nearly 900 journals and refereed conference articles. He holds more than 20 patents in his research areas. He has also published a book and several book chapters.
His research interests include renewable energy utilization, power systems, smart grids, and wide-area network applications. He is also interested in Electric machines and Drives, Fault-tolerant designs, diagnostics, and intelligent systems applications. He is interested in transportation electrification, shipboard power systems, and Lunar Habitat energy infrastructure. He is also interested in power electronics for integrated motor drives and DC distribution systems for renewable energy. He also has an interest in computational electromagnetics. Dr. Mohammed has successfully obtained many research contracts and grants from industries and Federal government agencies and has current active research programs in several areas.
He has been general chair and Technical Program Chair of more than 12 major IEEE international conferences, including IEEE/ISAP, IEEE/IEMDC, IEEE/CEFC, and COMPUMAG. He has been an editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Elisabetta Tedeschi, Dept. of Electric Energy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) & Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Italy

Dr. Elisabetta Tedeschi joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) as faculty member in 2013, and she is currently Professor within offshore grid at the Department of Electric Energy. Since 2020, she is also Professor in Power Converters, Electrical Machines and Drives at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento in Italy.
Having received a Marie Curie Fellowship, from 2011 to 2013 she was an Experienced Researcher at Tecnalia in Spain. Subsequently she had a part time position as Research Scientist at Sintef Energy Research, in Norway, between 2013 and 2014. In 2015, she was granted funding under the “Young Research Talent” scheme of the Research Council of Norway for an international project on Integrated Design and Control of Offshore HVDC networks. She has led and/or contributed to more than 15 national and international scientific projects and co-authored more than 150 journal and conference papers.
She was Technical Programme Co-chair of the 13th Annual Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2021 and Programme Chair of the 17th IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, (COMPEL) 2016, Member of the Technical Programme Committee of the IEEE ISGT 2024, IEEE SMART 2022, IEEE CPE 2021, IEEE SPEC/COBEP 2019, IEEE COMPEL 2018, and of the IEEE EVER-Monaco Conferences between 2012 and 2021. Her research interests include design and control of energy conversion systems, offshore transmission and distribution networks and power quality issues.

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Ioannis Lestas, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ioannis Lestas is a Professor of Control Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He received the B.A. (Starred First) and M.Eng. (Distinction) degrees in Electrical and Information Sciences and the Ph.D. in control engineering from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) in 2002 and 2007, respectively. His doctoral work was performed as a Gates Scholar. He has been a Junior Research Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge and he was awarded a five year Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship. He is also the recipient of a five year ERC starting grant, and an ERC proof of concept grant. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and as a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. His research interests include decentralized control and optimization in power systems and smart grids.

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Phillip Kollmeyer, McMaster University, Canada

Bio: Phillip Kollmeyer received the B.S.(2006), M.S.(2011), and Ph.D.(2015) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In July of 2023 he started as an assistant professor at McMaster University, where he was a Senior Principal Research Engineer from 2019 to 2023 and a Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2016 to 2019. His research is focused (1) in the battery area – with topics including state estimation, modeling, aging, ultra-fast charging, and thermal management – and (2) on optimizing electric drivetrain efficiency via multi-speed gearboxes, wide bandgap power electronics, and power split control algorithms. He leads the battery testing facilities at McMaster University, which include 104 cell testing channels, 52 climatic chambers, and module and pack testing up to 800 V and 160 kW. Phil has authored and coauthored more than 80 publications, had a supervisory role for more than a dozen graduate students, and created numerous widely utilized open-source battery datasets and algorithms. From 2018 to 2023, Phil served on the senior organizing committee of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC) and he was General Chair of the conference in 2023.

Keynote Speaker V

Prof. Mohammadreza Aghaei, University of Freiburg, Germany

Bio: Mohammadreza Aghaei received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2016. He joined Fraunhofer ISE as visiting scholar in 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Scientist at Fraunhofer ISE and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)-PVcomB, Germany, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He has been joined to the Solar Energy Engineering program at the University of Freiburg, as a Guest Lecturer in 2017. Later, he also fulfilled another two years postdoc in the Design of Sustainable Energy Systems Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Netherlands. He was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in 2020. He was involved in several national and EU-funded research projects dealing with energy systems, energy flexibility, solar photovoltaics, and smart/autonomous technology. Currently, he is the coordinator/leader of EU projects at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. He is also a full professor in the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH), Solar Energy Engineering program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is also an IEEE senior member, and he authored over 190 publications in internationally refereed journals, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

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