PELINCEC 2005 - Politechnika Warszawska

P E L I N C E C B i o g r a p h i e s
Plenary Speakers of PELINCEC 2005 Conference
Steffen Bernet (IEEE M’97) received his MS degree from Dresden University of Technology in 1990
and PhD degree from Ilmenu University of Technology in 1995, both in electrical engineering. In 1995
and 1996, he worked as Postdoc in the ECE Department of the University of Wisconsin – Madison. In
1996, he joined the ABB Corporate Research, Heidelberg (Germany) where he led the Electrical Drive
Systems Group. From 1999 to 2000 he was responsible for the ABB research worldwide in the areas
of “Power Electronics Systems”, ”Drives” and ”Electric Machines”. In 2001, he joined the Berlin University
of Technology, as a Professor of Power Electronics.
Stanisław H. Żak received his PhD degree from the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika
Warszawska), Warsaw, Poland, in 1977. He was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Control and
Industrial Electronics (ISEP) of the Warsaw University of Technology from 1977 until 1980. From 1980
until 1983, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In 1983 he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, where he is now a Professor. He has worked in various areas
of control, optimization, and neural networks. Dr Zak is a past Associate Editor of Dynamics and Control
and the IEEE Transactions on Neutal Networks. He co-authored with Professor T.Kaczorek, his PhD
advisor, and Dr K. M. Przyłuski, “Selected Methods of Analysis of Linear Dynamical Systems’’ published
by Polish Scientific Publishers In Warsaw (PWN), in 1984. He is the co-author, along with Professor E. K. P. Chong of “An
Introduction to Optimization,’’ whose second edition was published in 2001 by Wiley-Interscience. He is the author of
“Systems and Control” published in 2003 by Oxford University Press.
Hirofumi Akagi received BS. degree from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1974,
and his MS and PhD degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1976 and 1979, respectively,
all In electrical engineering. In 1979, he joined the Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka,
Japan, as an Assistant and then Associate Professor in the department of electrical engineering. In 19-
87, he had been a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for ten months. From
1991 to 1999, he was a Professor in the department of electrical engineering at Okayama University,
Okayama, Japan. From March to August of 1996, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since January 2000, he has
been a Professor in the department of electrical and electronic engineering At the Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include power conversion systems, ac motor drives, active and passive
EMI filters, highfrequency resonant-inverters for induction heating and corona discharge treatment processes, and utility applications
of power electronics such as active filters, selfcommutated BTB systems, and FACTS devices. He has authored or
co-authored some 70 IEEE Journal papers, as well as many IEEE Conference papers. He has made numerous presentations
as a keynote or invited speaker internationally. He received two IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Transactions
Prize Paper Awards in 1991 and 2004, and two IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Transactions Prize Paper Awards in
1999 and in 2003, along with nine IEEE IAS Committee Prize Paper Awards. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1996, and
a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE IAS and PELS for 1998-1999. He was a recipient of the IEEE William E. Newell Power
Electronics Award in 2001, and the IEEE IAS Outstanding Achievement Award in 2004.
POWER ELECTRONICS AND INTELLIGENT CONTROL FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION
CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics; Warsaw University of Technology
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00-662 Warszawa, POLAND
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