Coordinator

Euzeli Cipriano dos Santos Jr. (S’04–M’07–SM’12) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil, in 2004, 2005, and 2007, respectively. From 2006 to 2007, he was in the Electric Machines and Power Electronics Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, as a Visiting Scholar. From December 2010 to March 2011, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany. From March 2009 to June 2012, he was in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, as a Professor of electrical engineering. From 2012 to 2024, he was with the IUPUI, USA. Since July 2024 he has been with Purdue University in Indianapolis, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include power electronics, electrical drives, and renewable energy systems.

Maher Rizkalla (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, in 1985. From January 1985 to August 1986, he was a Research Scientist with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA, and was a Visiting Assistance Professor with Purdue University Calment. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana-University Purdue-University Indianapolis in August 1986, where he is currently a Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department. He has authored and coauthored more than 250 conference and journal papers since he joined the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IUPUI. He is a Co-Author of a number of industrial grants. His research interests include solid state electronics, including superconducting, semiconducting, and nanotechnology devices, VLSI design, and electromagnetics as applied to health sciences. He is a Professional Engineer registered in the state of Indiana. He is he PI of three NSF grants and two others from the Department of Education.

Haitham Kanakri (PhD - IEEE Student Member) was born in Irbid, Jordan, in 1989. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 2013, the M.EN. degree in power electronics in 2015 from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, and the M.S. degree in power systems from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas in 2019. In 2015 he was a student intern with Schneider Electric company, Houston, Tx, USA, where he worked on ecostruxure buildings and control. He is currently a research assistant with Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, where he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include power electronics, planar magnetic design, high-power density magnetic design, motor drive systems, and LLC resonant converters.