Prof. Nikolaos Hatziargyriou (Life Fellow, IEEE)
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Nikos D. Hatziargyriou (Life Fellow, IEEE) is with the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), since 1984, Professor in Power Systems, since 1995, and Professor Emeritus, since 2022. He is Part-time Professor at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He has over 10 years of industrial experience as the Chairman and the CEO of the Hellenic Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) and as the Executive Vice-Chair and Deputy CEO of the Public Power Corporation (PPC), responsible for the Transmission and Distribution Divisions. He has participated in more than 60 R&D projects funded by the EU Commission, electric utilities and industry for fundamental research and practical applications. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 journal publications and 600 conference proceedings papers. He was the Chair and Vice-Chair of ETIP-SNET. He is past EiC of the ΙΕΕΕ Transactions on Power Systems and currently EiC-at-Large for IEEE PES Transactions. He is included in the 2016, 2017 and 2019 Thomson Reuters lists of top 1% most cited researchers. Ηe is the 2020 Globe Energy Prize laureate, recipient of the 2017 IEEE/PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and recipient of the 2023 IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award.
Prof. Akshay Kumar Rathore (IEEE Fellow)
Singapore Institue of Technology, Singapore
Akshay Kumar Rathore (IEEE Fellow) is
an expert in power electronics and control of electrical
motor drives. He received the Gold Medal for securing
the highest academic standing in his Master’s degree
among all electrical engineering specializations at
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He
had two subsequent postdoctoral research appointments
with the University of Wuppertal, Germany (2008-2009),
and the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
(2009-2010). From November 2010 to February 2016, he
served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University
of Singapore. From March 2016-Dec 2021, he served as an
Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada where he was listed in the Provost Circle of
Distinction in 2021. He served as Graduate Program
Director and Chair of Graduate Awards during 2020-21.
His research is mainly focused on the analysis and
design of novel current-fed converters (topologies and
modulation), soft-switching design and modulation
schemes for the dc/dc converters, pulsating DC link
(electrolytic capacitorless) inverters, and control of
multilevel inverters. He supervised 11 PhD theses and 14
MASc (research) theses.
Dr. Rathore is a recipient of the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew
W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award,
2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award, 2017 IEEE
IES David Irwin Early Career Award, 2019 IEEE IES
Publications Service Recognition Award, 2020 IEEE IAS
Outstanding Area Chair Award, 2020 IEEE Bimal Bose Award
for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy
Systems and 2021 Nagamori Award. He published about 285
research papers in international journals and
conferences, including 96 IEEE TRANSACTIONS.
He is currently serving as a co-Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the Awards
Department Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications
Society, AdCom Member-at-Large and Fellow Evaluation
Committee member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics
Society. He is serving as the Chair of IEEE IAS
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion Systems
Committee. He led and chaired the IEEE IAS Industrial
Automation and Control Committee (2018-19) and IEEE IAS
Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification
(2016-17). He served as a member of IEEE IES
Publications Committee (2016-2021) and IEEE IAS Andrew W
Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award
Committee (2014-2019). He served as the Chair of IEEE
IAS Montreal Chapter from 2017-2021 and received the
best Chapter award in 2017 from IEEE Montreal Section
for its activities.
He served as the Paper Review Chair (eq. to co-EIC) of
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2016-17 and
2020-21), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE IES Technology News
(ITeN) (2016-18), Associate Editor of various journals,
i.e., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
(2014-19), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
(2013-present), IEEE Transactions on Transportation
Electrification (2014-19), IEEE Journal of Emerging
Selected Topic in Power Electronics (2013-19), IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2016-19), IEEE
Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2014-2021) and IET
Power Electronics (2015-19). He edited 5 special issues
on the topics of electric transportation, EV charging,
marine systems, more electric aircraft, machine learning
in power electronics, and renewable energy conversion in
different IEEE Transactions as a guest associate editor
and as guest-EIC of 2 special issues. He served as the
distinguished lecturer (2017-18) and prominent lecturer
(2019-21) of the IEEE IAS society.
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