Computational Intelligence Applications Laboratory

(CIA) Lab

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Washington

Short Biographical Supplement

Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi is a Fellow of IEEE.  He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1980.  In 1980 he joined the University of Washington as a faculty member where he is presently a Professor of Electrical Engineering.  He also served as the Associate Chair and the Chairman of Graduate Studies and Research.  Among his major activities are:

· Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Neural Networks Society

· Author of two textbooks

· fundamentals of Electric Drives published by Brooks/Cole, 2000.

· Electric Energy: An Introduction published by CRC press, 2004.

· Editor/co-editor of several IEEE tutorial books on Intelligent Systems and  Applications.

· Member of the administrative committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Council representing the Power Engineering Society.

· Multi-Media Tutorial Chair of the neural network Society.

· Founding Chairman of numerous IEEE task forces and working groups and subcommittees

· Member of the editorial board and associate editor of several journals

· Organized and taught several international tutorials on intelligent systems applications, power quality and power systems.

· Chairman of the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives, Seattle, May 1999.

· Founder of the international conference on the Application of Neural Networks to Power Systems (ANNPS)

· Co-founder of the international conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power (ISAP).

· Organized and chaired numerous panel and special sessions in IEEE and other conferences.

· Consultant on electric safety, operation and control of electric systems, devices and circuits, and intelligent systems.

· Published over 200 papers and book chapters in his research areas.

· Holds 5 licensed patent

 

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