INVITED SPEAKERS
Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah is a professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET. For more information about Dr. Fattah, please visit the following link-
https://eee.buet.ac.bd/faculty/details/dr-shaikh-anowarul-fattah
Dr. Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology
Dr. Mohammed Moshiul Hoque is a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CUET. For more information about Dr. Hoque, please visit the following link-
https://www.cuet.ac.bd/members/500
Dr. Md. Golam Kibria
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
University of Calgary, Canada
Dr. Kibria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. Prior to joining UCalgary, he worked with Dr. Ted Sargent as a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, where his research was focused on electrochemical CO2 reduction, and system design for industrial scale CO2 electrolysis. Dr. Kibria is a recipient of Academic Gold Medal, Tomlinson Doctoral fellowship from McGill University, Green Talents Award from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) etc.
Dr. Kibria is interested in heterogeneous catalysis and system design for energy transformation reactions, including electro- /photo-catalysis for CO2 reduction and water splitting for sustainable energy and green environment. His current research interests include: nano-material synthesis for next generation catalysis, CO2 electro-reduction, water oxidation reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysis, alcohol oxidation reaction, device engineering, techno-economic analysis etc. For more information about Dr. Kibria, please visit the following link-
https://kibrialab.com/
Dr. Yasser Khan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Southern California, USA
Yasser Khan is an incoming Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. Currently, he is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, advised by Professor Zhenan Bao in Chemical Engineering and Professor Boris Murmann in Electrical Engineering. Yasser completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in Professor Ana Claudia Arias’ Group. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, respectively. Yasser’s research focuses on additive manufacturing and hardware AI to produce skin-like wearables, implantables, and ingestibles. These medical devices are being used for precision health and psychiatry.
Yasser received the EECS departmental fellowship at UC Berkeley, discovery scholarship and graduate fellowship at KAUST, and academic excellence scholarship at UT Dallas. Yasser published over 40 research publications and presentations in the most reputed platforms in the field, which were highlighted by BBC News, Wall Street Journal, NSF News, and many more. For more information about Dr. Khan, please visit the following link-
https://viterbi-web.usc.edu/~yasserkh/team/
Dr. Md. Md Rabiul Islam
Electrical Power Engineering,
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Dr. Rabiul Islam received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia, in 2014, in electrical engineering. From September 2013 to September 2014 he was a Research Associate with the ARC discovery project entitled “An Optimal Electrical Drive System for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles” at UTS. He was appointed as an Associate Professor at Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET) from July 2015 to March 2017 and was promoted to a Professor in April 2017. Since January 2018 he has been working with the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia.
He has authored and co-authored more than 250 technical papers including more than 75 IEEE Transactions/IEEE Journal papers, 5 books (Springer and CRC Press), and 14 book chapters (Springer, IET, CRC Press-Taylor & Francis).
His two papers have been awarded by the IEEE Power & Energy Society editorial board as the "Best Paper" published in the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion in the period 2019-2020 (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9269305). He also received more than 15 Best Paper Awards from different international conferences.
Dr. Rabiul is a Senior Member of the IEEE (USA). His research interests are in the fields of renewable energy technologies, power electronic converters, power quality and reliability, electrical machines, and smart power systems.
He is serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and the IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and Associate Editor for IEEE Access. He is a book Series Editor for Taylor & Francis Books with the Book Series entitled "Advances in Power Electronic Converters". He is serving as a Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and IEEE Power & Energy Society Joint Special Section on "Advances in High-frequency Isolated Power Converters".
He has received several research grants from Governments and Industries including in total $5.48 million from Australian Government through Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP) entitled “A Next Generation Smart Solid-State Transformer for Power Grid Applications” and ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre Project entitled “ARC Training Centre in Energy Technologies for Future Grids.
For more information about Dr. Islam, please visit the following link-
https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/md_rabiul_islam
