Prof. Babak Fahimi

Affiliation

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX, USA

KEYNOTE SPEECH: “Optimal electric propulsion for land and air vehicles”

Biography

Babak Fahimi (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, in 1999. He has been active in research on electric machines and drives over the past 30 years. He has coauthored over 375 peer-reviewed articles and holds 22 U.S. patents. He has been the advisor for 36 Ph.D. students and 30 M.S. students. He is a fellow of IEEE for his contributions to modeling of adjustable speed motor drives