Dr. Robert Cuzner
Joanne and Richard Grigg Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems and UWM site director for the National Science Foundation supported Industry/University Collaborative Research Center, GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES). After a 24 career in industry, working principally on navy ship power conversion and distribution equipment design and systems integration, Dr. Cuzner moved from Leonardo DRS to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where for the past 11 years he has led a research group next generation integrated power and energy systems for shipboard electrification and development of design tools for successful integration of power electronics utility and transportation based low to medium voltage electrical power systems, with a focus on electromagnetic compatibility and scalability. His group also works on the development of survivable, shipboard zonal, integrated power and energy systems and resilient networked microgrids for critical facilities, such as naval installations.
Dr. Feng Guo
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Cyber-Physical Energy Systems Laboratory. Dr. Guo was the recipient of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Transactions Second Place Prize Paper Award. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nottingham, and recently finished a postdoctoral degree in electrical and computer Engineering from the University of Arkansas. His research interests are in multilevel converters, control and modulation techniques, wide-bandgap power device applications, high-speed motor drives, and transportation electrification.
Dr. Lingfeng Wang
Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Cyber-Physical Energy Systems Laboratory. Dr. Wang was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo, Ohio and an Associate Transmission Planner at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), Folsom, California. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas in 2008. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and serves on the Steering Committee for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is also on the Editorial Board for several other international journals including Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) and Intelligent Industrial Systems (Springer). His major research interests include power system reliability and cybersecurity, renewable energy integration, intelligent and energy-efficient buildings, electric vehicles integration, microgrid analysis, cyber-physical systems, and industrial automation and manufacturing.
Dr. Omar Abdel-baqi
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Abdel-baqi was born in Al-Zawya, Palestine, in 1976. He received the B.S. degree from Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine, in 2000, the M.S. degree from University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA, in 2010 all in electrical engineering. He worked for KeyKert USA, Novi, MI, USA, from 2004-2007. Bucyrus International, South Milwaukee, WI, USA from 2007-2011. He also worked for Caterpillar Global Mining in S. Milwaukee, WI, USA from 2012-2017. He is currently Technology Manager at Eaton Research Lab.
Dr. Ashish Bendre
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Bendre is President of the Allient Orion Group comprising of TCI (Milwaukee), SNC (Oshkosh) and Spectrum (Bellevue). He directly leads TCI, which he joined as Vice President of Engineering in 2011, managing the development of magnetic and electronic products for harmonic mitigation. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also received an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago. Prior to Allient/TCI, he served as the Director of Technology for DRS Power & Control Technologies, a division of Leonardo DRS focused on naval power conversion. He has more than 15 years of power converter design and development experience. He has authored over 40 IEEE journal and conference papers and is the holder of four U.S. patents. His primary areas of interest include power electronics and control design for multilevel converters, dc–dc converters, and power quality devices.