IEEE West Virginia Section
Region 2 - Eastern United States
IEEE West Virginia Section Officers for 2017
Below are details about our 2017 WV section officers.
Chair: Asad
Davari, P.D.
Dr. Asad Davari has been a
faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
since 1985. He was the Chair of the Graduate Committee responsible for
the curricular and admission aspects of the graduate program in control
systems engineering at WVU Tech. His research interests are in the
areas of control and applications, neural energy and control of power
systems. He has been very active in funded research and has been
successful in attracting funding from agencies such as NSF, DOD, and
DOE/ National Energy Technology Lab (NETL). So far he managed and
secured more than $7M research funding. He has more than 90 papers
published in journals and conference proceedings. He has advised a
large number of MS students in the control systems engineering graduate
program at WVU Tech and continues to serve as co-advisor for Ph.D students at WVU. He is the recipient of LCN
College of Engineering Faculty Merit Awards in 2000, 2001, and 2002 and
received the very first Award of Excellence for research from LCNCOE in
April 2003. Dr. Asad Davari, Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding Director of the Center
on Advanced Control of Autonomous Systems and Manufacturing at the
Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering was recognized by Governor Bob
Wise with a Certificate of Achievement in Scientific Research at the
Capitol on Monday, February 9, 2004
Dr. Davari is a senior member of IEEE, Control System
Society, and Power System Society. He was the IEEE West Virginia
Section chair in 2009. He was the Program Chair for IEEE/SSST
conferences in 1998 and 2003. He has also been a member of the Steering
Committee of the IEEE/SSST since 1986. He was advisor to IEEE student chapter
for more than 10 years.
Vice
Chair, Professional Activities Chair, Webmaster:
Yadi Eslami, Ph.D.
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Yadollah Eslami (S’00–M’05)
is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Technology
of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology. Dr. Eslami received his Ph.D.
degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of
Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2005. He was a lecturer with the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Isfahan
University of Technology, from 1987 to 1999, and a Design Engineer
with the Department of DRAM Research and Development, Micron Technology
Inc., Boise, ID, USA, from 2005 to 2009 and an adjunct faculty of
College of Western Idaho (CWI) in 2009-2010 school year. He joined
the Department of Engineering Technology of the West Virginia
University Institute of Technology in August 2010. His current
research areas are the design and implementation of smart grid
algorithms using advanced DSPs, microcontrollers, and FPGAs, data
acquisition and logging systems, and VLSI memories. Dr. Eslami holds an international patent on FeRAM circuits and a US patent on high speed DRAM
input buffer. He was the recipient of the Ontario Graduate
Scholarship in Science and Technology, the University of Toronto Open
Fellowship, and the Edwards S. Rogers Sr. Scholarship from 1999 to
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Treasurer: Mingyu
Lu
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Mingyu Lu received the
B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a
research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From
2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the
Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department
of Electrical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from
2005 to 2012. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology as an
assistant professor in 2012. His current research interests include
radar systems, microwave remote sensing, antenna design, and
computational electromagnetics. He was the recipient of the first
prize award in the student paper competition of the IEEE
International Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Boston, MA in 2001.
He served as the chair of Antennas and Propagation Society of IEEE
Fort Worth Chapter from 2006 to 2011. |
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Membership
Development Chair: Russ Safreed, PE
Russ earned
his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from West
Virginia Institute of Technology in 1987. He began his engineering career as
a co-op student with Virginia Power in 1983 and since that time has
gained a wide range of practical engineering experience with
companies such as Union Carbide, Brown Electric, Aker Solutions, and
DuPont. He has been
responsible for the operation of power distribution systems ranging
from 480-volts to 46,000-volts, as well as leading the design
of electrical projects for chemical manufacturing and power
plants. Russ has been on both sides of industrial electrical
construction projects - as the engineer managing the contractor and as
the contractor installing the projects. He has a
reputation for finding practical and innovative solutions
to difficult electrical issues using his
solid understanding of engineering principles and
regulations. Today, he
co-owns MarTek Limited, a company in |
Secretary:
Kenan Hatipoglu, Ph.D.
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Kenan Hatipoglu is currently an
assistant professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. He completed his
Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at University of
Louisville, Kentucky in 2008 and joined Tennessee Tech University in
2009 to pursue his Ph.D. in Electrical (Power) Engineering. He
completed his graduate study in August 2013. He received his
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Education from Department of
Electrical Education in Faculty of Technical Education and Technology
Engineering at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2005. He
attended high school at Inegol Dortcelik Anatolian Technical High School, Bursa,
Turkey. His current research interests include smartgrid
and microgrid applications, power system
control, renewable energy resources and power electronics. He is an
active member of IEEE, SME and Sigma XI. |
