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.