Keynote Speaker
Prof.Mohammad S. Obaidat
Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAIA and Fellow of SCS
University of Jordan, Jordan
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat is an internationally known academic/researcher/scientist/ scholar. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He has received extensive research funding and published To Date (2023) over One Thousand (1,200) refereed technical articles-About half of them are journal articles, over 100 books, and over 70 Book Chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of 3 scholarly journals and an editor of many other international journals. He is the founding Editor-in Chief of Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. Moreover, he is founder or co-founder of 5 IEEE International Conferences.
Among his previous positions are Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University for Research, Development and Information Technology, President and Chair of Board of Directors of the Society for Molding and Simulation International(SCS), Senior Vice President of SCS, SCS VP for Membership and SCS VP for Conferences, Dean of the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University, Founding Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics at The University of Sharjah, Chair and tenured Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Director of the MS Graduate Program in Data Analytics at Fordham university, Chair and tenured Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University, Chair and Professor of Computer Science Department at University of Texas-Permian Basin, Distinguished Professor at IIT-Dhanbad, Tenured Full Professor at King Abdullah II School of Information Technology (KASIT), University of Jordan, The PR of China Ministry of Education Distinguished Overseas Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China and an Honorary Distinguished Professor at the Amity University- A Global University. He is now a Distinguished Professor at KASIT, University of Jordan.
He has chaired numerous (Over 185) international conferences and has given numerous (Over 185) keynote speeches worldwide. He has served as ABET/CSAB evaluator and on IEEE CS Fellow Evaluation Committee. He has served as IEEE CS Distinguished Speaker/Lecturer and an ACM Distinguished Lecturer. Since 2004 has been serving as an SCS Distinguished Lecturer. He received many best paper awards for his papers including ones from IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, AICSA, CITS, SPECTS, DCNET, IEEE ICCCA, International conferences. He also received Best Paper awards from IEEE Systems Journal in 2018 and in 2019 (2 Best Paper Awards). In 2020, he received 4 best paper awards from IEEE Systems Journal and also in 2021 received the best paper award from IEEE Systems Journal.
During his tenure as Founding Dean of College of computing and Informatics at University of Sharjah, the Computer Sciences program has been ranked by Times for Higher Education (THE) as NUMBER 1 in UAE and for the first time in the history of the University.
He also received many other worldwide awards for his technical contributions including: The 2018 IEEE ComSoc-Technical Committee on Communications Software 2018 Technical Achievement Award for contribution to Cybersecurity, Wireless Networks Computer Networks and Modeling and Simulation, SCS prestigious McLeod Founder's Award , Presidential Service Award, SCS Hall of Fame –Lifetime Achievement Award for his technical contribution to modeling and simulation and for his outstanding visionary leadership and dedication to increasing the effectiveness and broadening the applications of modeling and simulation worldwide. He also received the SCS Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the IEEE CITS Hall of Fame Distinguished and Eminent Award.
He also received the Nokia Distinguished Fellowship Award and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, among others.
He was ranked recently by research.com agency as number ONE Computer Scientist and number ONE Scholar in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Jordan.
In recognition of his significant scientific contribution, Springer published in 2022 a book honoring his contributions in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity. It is entitled: Advances in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity - A Book Honoring Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat’s Significant Scientific Contributions. Prof. Obaidat is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA and a Fellow of SCS.
Prof.Francisco de León
New York University, United States
Francisco de León received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. (Hons.) degrees in electrical engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico, in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1992. He has held several academic positions in Mexico and has worked for the Canadian electric industry. He is now a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University.
He has close to 200 publications including 125 journal papers (over 100 in the IEEE Transactions), 5 book chapters, 14 discussions, 53 conference papers, and 18 patents. These papers have been cited more than 6000 times in Google Scholar. He has graduated (so far) 28 Ph.D. and 28 M.Sc. students and directed the research of 16 postdoctoral fellows and 7 visiting PhD students. Dr. de León is listed in the 2023 edition of Research.com ranking of best scientists in the field of electronics and electrical engineering.
Prof. de León is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
Prof. Innocent Kamwa
Laval University, Canada
A full professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Decentralized Sustainable Electricity Grids for Smart Communities at Laval University since September 2020, Dr. Kamwa was previously a researcher at Hydro-Québec's Research Institute (IREQ), where for three decades, he specialized in the dynamic performance and control of power systems from a utility perspective. Prior to his retirement from Hydro-Quebec, he was successively, Chief scientist for the Smart grid Innovation Program, Acting Scientific Director and Head of Power system and Mathematics, responsible for the Hydro-Quebec Network Simulation Centre. He was an Adjunct Associate professor at McGill University and Laval University (1991-2020) and the Product Owner and Developer of three widely used power systems simulation tools, namely EMTP, SimpowerSystems and Hypersim, commercialized by EMP-Alliance, Mathworks and OPAL-RT, respectively.
Dr. Kamwa received a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from Laval University, and became a 2005 IEEE Fellow for "contributions to synchronous machines identification and innovations in power grid control". He is both the 2019 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Technical Field Award , “For sustained leadership in the development of standards for electrical machines”, and the 2019 Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award, “For contributions in enhancing power grid performance by novel measurement devices, identification techniques, and stability control systems”. He is also a recipient of four IEEE PES best paper prize awards (1998, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2022), and four IEEE PES outstanding working group awards (1998, 2006, 2011, 2013). He is a member of Canada Academy of Engineering and International Member of US National Academy of Engineering “For contributions to adaptive power grid control schemes and synchronous generator testing and standards.”
Prof. Claudio Cañizares
University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Claudio Cañizares is a University Professor and the Hydro One Endowed Chair at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (E&CE) Department, and the Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) at the University of Waterloo, where he has held various academic and administrative positions since 1993 and received the 2021-2022 Awards of Excellence in Graduate Supervision at both the University and Faculty of Engineering levels. He obtained the Electrical Engineer degree from the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN) in Quito-Ecuador in 1984, where he held different academic and administrative positions between 1983 and 1993, and his MSc (1988) and PhD (1991) degrees in Electrical Engineering are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research activities focus on the study of stability, control, optimization, modeling, simulation, and computational issues in bulk power systems, microgrids, and energy systems in the context of competitive energy markets and smart grids. In these areas, he has led or been an integral part of many grants and contracts from government agencies and private companies worth millions of dollars, and has collaborated with multiple industry and university researchers in Canada and abroad, supervising/co-supervising over 170 research fellows and graduate students. He has authored/co-authored more than 350 publications with over 24,000 citations and a 70+ H-index, including journal and conference papers, technical reports, book chapters, disclosures and patents, and has been invited to deliver keynote speeches, seminars, tutorials, and presentations at many institutions and conferences worldwide. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (IEEE) Transactions on Smart Grid, the 2022-2023 IEEE Division VII Director of the IEEE and Power & Energy Society (PES) Boards, and a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, where he was the Director of the Applied Science and Engineering Division of the Academy of Science from 2017 to 2020, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is also the recipient of the 2017 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, the 2016 IEEE Canada Electric Power Medal, and of multiple IEEE PES Technical Council and Committee awards and recognitions, holding leadership positions in several IEEE-PES Committees, Working Groups, and Task Forces.