Kathleen Kramer
(2024 IEEE President-Elect)
Kathleen A. Kramer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego in California. She worked to develop new engineering programs as a founding member of the faculty and eventually became the chair of electrical engineering, and then serving as Director of Engineering (2004-2013), providing academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs. Her teaching interests are in the areas of signal processing, mechatronics and robotics, and communication systems.
She has also been a Member of Technical Staff at several companies, including ViaSat, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Communications Research. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) and is a past vice president of the society. She is a Fellow of ABET, and leader in the development of criteria for cyber security, mechatronics, and robotics.
She served on the IEEE Board of Directors as IEEE Secretary and chair of Governance, and as IEEE Region 6 (Western USA) Director. She was also chair of the 2023 IEEE Ad Hoc on Innovating Funding Models.
She received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering magna cum laude with a second major in physics from Loyola Marymount University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Josep M. Guerrero
Department of Energy Technology
Aalborg University, Denmark.
(S’01-M’04-SM’08-FM’15) received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering, the M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, in 1997, 2000 and 2003, respectively. Nowadays he is working towards the M.Sc. Degree in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with AAU Energy, Aalborg University, Denmark, where he is responsible for the Microgrid Research Program. From 2019, he became a Villum Investigator by The Villum Fonden, which supports the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM) at Aalborg University, being Prof. Guerrero the founder and Director of the same center (www.crom.et.aau.dk).
His research interests are oriented to different microgrid frameworks in applications like microgrid clusters, IoT-based and digital twins, cybersecurity, maritime microgrids for electrical ships, vessels, ferries and seaports, space microgrids applied to nanosatellites and closed bioecological systems, and smart medical systems. Prof. Guerrero is an Associate Editor for a number of IEEE TRANSACTIONS. He has published more than 900 journal papers in the fields of microgrids and renewable energy systems, which are cited more than 85,000 times. During nine consecutive years, from 2014 to 2022, he was awarded by Clarivate Analytics (former Thomson Reuters) as Highly Cited Researcher with 55 highly cited papers. In 2021, he received the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, for his pioneering contributions to renewable energy based microgrids. In 2022, he received the IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, for contributions to making the hierarchical control of microgrid systems a practical reality.
Dr. Ing. Mohamed BECHERIF
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France.
Mohamed Becherif obtained his Engineer in Automatic Control from Polytechnical School of Algeria 99, DEA and PhD in Automatic Control from University of Paris Sud/Supélec in 2001 and 2004 respectively and joined UTBM since 2005. He is the Head of the Full-time Engineering training in Energy and Electrical Engineering UTBM and member of Femto-ST CNRS Lab. He is/was a scientific co-responsible or Principal Investigator in three European Projects FP7, French and international projects, and several industrial projects. He is co-author of more than 130 journal papers and more than 300 conference papers. He was/is the Manager Editor and Guest Editor of different Special Issue in different Elsevier Journals. H-index 43
He was the General Chair of the following conferences: ICEREGA’16 + 17 +18+20, EMF’17, cochair of ICEE’17, International Examinator on Energies for Czech Republic, Estonia, EAU, Egypt. He was/is the supervisor of 20 PhD and jury member in 21. He was invited professor in China, Canada, Egypt and Algeria. In 2020-2021-2022-2023 and 2024, he is listed by Stanford University as one of the World’s top 2% Scientists (most cited scientists in various disciplines).