Biographies

Haitham Abu-Rub is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He holds two PhDs, from Gdansk University of Technology and from Gdansk University in Poland, received in 1995 and 2004, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor at the Gdansk University, and then at Birzeit University in Palestine, where he held the positions of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor for eight years. For four of those years, he was chair of the Electrical Engineering Department. His main research interests are electrical machine drives and power electronics. Dr Abu-Rub has earned many international, prestigious fellowships, such as the American Fulbright Scholarship (at Texas A&M University), the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (at Wuppertal University), the German DAAD Scholarship (at Bochum University), and the British Royal Society Scholarship (at Southampton University).

Dr Abu-Rub is a senior IEEE member, with more than one hundred and thirty published journal and conference papers to his credit. He has also served as an Associate Editor with two journals, and has been on their editorial boards.

Atif Iqbal received his BS and MS of Electrical Engineering degrees in 1991 and 1996, respectively, from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, and PhD in 2006 from Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. He has been employed as a lecturer at AMU in India since 1991, where he is an Associate Professor. He has been on academic leave ...

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