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IEEE EnergyCon 2010

IEEE EnergyCon 2010

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Abdulrahman F. Al-Wuhaib

Abdulrahman F. Al-Wuhaib has been officially appointed as Senior VP for Operations Services at the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on April 28, 2007. He previously held Executive Management positions as Vice President, Information Technology; Vice President, Engineering Services; Vice President, Ras Tanura Refinery; and Vice President, Project Management.

Mr Al-Wuhaib holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (1976) and an MBA from the University of California, Riverside (1981).

Ihab Ghattas

Ihab Ghattas is the Assistant President for the Middle East region at Huawei Technologies, a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions. Based at Huawei’s Dubai office, Ihab is responsible for driving Huawei’s business in the region besides being instrumental in developing strategies related to marketing, human resources, social activities and administration. Ihab is also responsible for establishing and developing key relationships with clients and operators across the region.

Amer Al-Swaha

Dr. Amer Al-Swaha is the Head of the Independent Power Producers Program, from 2007, and reporting to the P&CEO of the Saudi Electricity Company, The Electricity Provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Amer has been with the company from 1981, and worked in a number of positions starting from a Senior Engineer until his promotion to a Senior Vice President in 2002. He worked in the areas of System planning, System operations, support services and different corporate management positions.

Chuck Adams

Dr. Wilbert Charlton Adams, Jr. (Chuck Adams) is the 2009-2010 President of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), chairing its Board of Governors (BOG), which has policy and fiduciary responsibility for Standards within the IEEE. Chuck also represents Standards on the IEEE Board of Directors.

Chuck began his IEEE standards engagement in January 2000, initially in the oversight of the standards process at the IEEE-SA Standards Board.

Abdulrahman AL-Ibrahim

Dr. Abdulrahman AL-Ibrahim is the Vice Governor of the Electricity and Cogeneration Regulatory Authority (ECRA) for Consumers & Service Providers Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (1996).

His present research interests include renewable energy system modelling & analysis, energy conservation & load management, thermal & power system analysis, and electric industry regulations including customer care. In 1995, he was awarded the State of Wisconsin Governor’s Energy Fellowship

Waleed Alrumaih

Waleed Alrumaih is the Director of KAPSARC (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center) Energy Data & Modeling Section. Additionally, He leads two of KAPSARC research focus areas: the Energy Efficiency the Solar program. Also, he is an expert in simulating and modeling of power systems and capable of analyzing energy performance indices (development and implementation). He is the founder of the Saudi Aramco Energy Conservation Program.

Mahmoud bahy Noureldin

Dr. Mahmoud bahy Noureldin, is an energy consultant at Saudi Aramco. He has a Ph.D degree in Chemical Engineering, from Auburn University, USA in the field of process integration, MSc from University of Salford, UK in reactors Design and BSc from Cairo University. He has 30 years of industrial and academic experience as a senior lecturer at the Materials and Process engineering department/University of Waikato, New Zealand as

Saleh Al Amri

Saleh Ali Al-Amri, Power Distribution Department, Saudi Aramco, obtained in BS from KFUPM in 1992 and MS in EE from KFUPM in 1996. Saleh has 18 years of experience in operating, maintaining and managing HV Power Systems for Saudi Aramco with the Power Distribution Department,
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Wei-Jen Lee

Dr. Wei-Jen Lee, Professor and Director of the Energy Systems Research Center, obtained his Ph.D. from UT Arlington in 1985, M.S. from National Taiwan University in 1980 and B.S. also from National Taiwan University 1978.

Areas of Expertise:
Power system transient stability analysis, power system dynamic stability analysis and control, power system load flow analysis, power system operations, numerical methods in power system simulations, low voltage surge protection, and power electronics.

Mark Halpin

Mark Halpin (F’ 05) was born in 1965 in Sandersville, GA, USA. He received his PhD degree from Auburn University in 1993. He has been actively involved in teaching, research, and service for his entire career. He presently holds the position of Alabama Power Company Distinguished Professor at Auburn University. He is active in IEEE and IEC standards development and has been involved in numerous standards-making bodies in both leadership and technical contributor roles. He has been responsible for over US$25M

Robert C. Armstrong

Prof. Robert C. Armstrong, Deputy Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1973 and served as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2007. His research interests include polymer fluid mechanics, rheology of complex materials and energy.

Prof. Armstrong has received the Warren K. Lewis Award and the Professional Progress Award in 1992, both from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the 2006 Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology, which is devoted to the study of the science of deformation and flow of matter.

Edmund O. Schweitzer, III

Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III, SEL President, is recognized as a pioneer in digital protection and holds the grade of Fellow of the IEEE, a title bestowed on less than one percent of IEEE members. In 2002, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the Graduate Alumni Achievement Award from Washington State University and the Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award.

In September 2005, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Monterrey, Mexico, for his contribution to

William G. Lawrence, P.E.

Bill Lawrence, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), currently holds the position of Principal Engineer - Hazardous Location at FM Approvals. FM Approvals is a US Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory and a Standards Council of Canada accredited Testing and Certification Organization. FM Approvals Europe is appointed as a Notified Body for the ATEX Directive in Europe. Has been with FM Approvals for over twenty five years and involved with the examination and testing of electrical equipment rated for use in hazardous. Before joining FM Approvals,

Wael William Diab

Wael William Diab is currently a Senior Technical Director in the Office of the CTO working on technical strategy for the Infrastructure & Networking Group (ING). Prior to this role, Mr. Diab was a Director of Marketing in Broadcom’s ING looking at next generation products.

Mr. Diab was awarded Broadcom’s 2009 CEO and President’s Award for his work on energy-efficient Ethernet technologies and green networking.

Prior to Broadcom, Mr. Diab worked at Cisco for nine years in various technical, architectural and business leadership roles, focused on next generation networking products and technologies.

Frede Blaabjerg

Prof. Frede Blaabjerg was employed at ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987-1988. During 1988-1992 he was a PhD. student at Aalborg University. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992 at Aalborg University, in 1996 Associate Professor and in 1998 full professor in power electronics and drives the same place. In 2000 he was visiting professor in University of Padova, Italy as well as he became part-time programme research leader at Research Center Risoe in wind turbines. Now he is also Consulting Professor at Zhejiang University, China.

Haifeng Wang

Prof. Haifeng Wang, SMIEEE FIET CEng., is the Chair in Electrical Engineering and Research Director of Electric Power and Energy Systems Research Cluster, School of Electronics Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), Belfast, UK. He is the member of executive board of the Institute of a Sustainable World, QUB.

Prof.. Haifeng Wang obtained his BSc., MSc. and Ph.D in 1982, 1984 and 1988 respectively from the Southeast University

M.A. Rahman

Prof. M. Azizur Rahman (S’66-M’68-SM’73-F’88, LF’07) was born at Santahar, Bangladesh on January 9, 1941. He received the B. Sc. degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, the M. A. Sc. from the University of Toronto and the PhD. degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada all in Electrical Engineering in 1962, 1965 and 1968, respectively. In 1962 he joined BUET as a Lecturer and was promoted to Full Professor in 1975. In 1976, he joined the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where is a Professor and University Research Professor.

Ahmed F. Zobaa

Eur.Ing Dr. Ahmed F. Zobaa, Ph.D., CEng, FIET, SMIEEE, MEI received his B.Sc.(hons.), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Power & Machines from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1992, 1997 and 2002. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Power Systems at Brunel University, West London, UK.

Dr. Zobaa was a Senior Lecturer in Renewable Energy at University of Exeter in Cornwall, UK, before joining Brunel University.During this appointment, he served as the Electrical Engineering Team Leader under PRIMaRE, a £15 million research Institute to support the development of marine energy in the South West of UK, particularly the Wave Hub project.

Yousef Al Yousef

Yousef M. AlYousef, is the Executive Director of National Energy Efficiency Program (NEEP). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1995, and his MS in Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA in 2000 and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA in 2004.

Alyousef received the award of Teaching Excellence from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2003. He is an associate professor of Energy Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.

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