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N9B 1K3, Canada, and the founder of the Power and Energy
Systems Research Laboratory. His research interests
include power and energy systems, high-voltage engineering,
power electronics, and smart grid. He is a Senior Member
of IEEE and an active member of the International
Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE), the European
Power Electronics and Drives Association, and the Institution
of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Mehrdad Saif (msaif@uwindsor.ca) earned his B.S.E.E,
M.S.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees from Cleveland State University,
Cleveland, OH, USA, in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively.
During his graduate studies, he worked on research projects
sponsored by NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center, as
well as Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program
(CAMP). In 1987, he was and assistant professor at the
School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University.
From 2002 to 2011, he was the director of the School of
Engineering Science and led a major expansion of that
School during his term. He has been the dean of the Faculty
of Engineering University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario,
N9B 3P4, Canada, since July 2021. In that role, he led major
enrollment growth through strategic enrollment management
and the expansion of Faculty of Engineering programs
into such areas as aerospace engineering, engineering management,
B.Eng. technology, mechatronics, and others. He
has also overseen significant growth in the number of faculty
as well as the research productivity of the Faculty of
Engineering. His research interests include systems
and control, estimation and observer theory, modelbased
fault diagnostics, condition monitoring, diagnostics
and prognostics, and application of these areas to automotive,
power, autonomous systems, and other complex and
cyberphysical systems. He has published over 400 refereed
journal and conference papers plus an edited book in these
areas. He is also listed in the top 100,000, or 2% of scientists
in the world. He has been a consultant to a number of industries
and agencies such as GM, NASA, B.C. Hydro, Ontario
Council of Graduate Studies, and others. He chaired the
Vancouver Section of the IEEE Control Systems Society in
1995 and 1997 and is currently a member of the editorial
boards of IEEE Access, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Magazine, and IEEE Systems Journal. He is a registered
professional engineer in Ontario, Canada, and a fellow of
the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Engineering Institute
of Canada, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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