Kamal AI-Haddad

Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure
Montreal, Canada

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Biography: Kamal Al-Haddad received the B.Sc.A. and M.Sc.A. degrees from the University of Québec, Canada, in 1982 and 1984, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institut National Polytechnique, France, in 1988. Since June 1990, he has been a Professor with École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Montreal, where he has been the holder of the senior Canada Research Chair in Electric Energy Conversion and Power Electronics since 2002. He has supervised more than 180 Ph.D. and M.Sc.A. students and established solid links with Canadian industries working in the field of Industrial electronics. He has co-authored more than 760 transactions and conference papers. He is currently the Director of IEEE Division VI. He is a fellow member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He was IEEE IES President 2016- 2017, IES Distinguished Lecturer, and recipient of the 2014 IEEE IES Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award. Prof. Al-Haddad is a member of the Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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