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IEEE West Virginia Section
Officers for 2015
Region 2 Eastern United States
Below are details about our 2015 WV section officers.
Chair: Asad Davari, P.D.
Asad.Davari@mail.wvu.edu
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: Yadi Eslami, Ph.D.
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Yadollah.EslamiAmirabadi@mail.wvu.edu
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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 2005.
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Treasurer: Mingyu Lu
Mingyu.Lu@mail.wvu.edu
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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
rsafreed@marteklimited.com
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 Charleston, WV, that designs and manufactures
remote switch operators for the electrical industry. Companies
throughout the United States
and Canada
use their products to protect employees from dangerous arc-flash
energy in electrical power distributions systems.
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Professional Activities Chair: Amber Toney
aleightoney@gmail.com
Amber Toney received
her Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor
in mathematics from West Virginia University Institute of Technology in
December 2014. She was the Chair of the WVU Tech
student branch for two years, as well as being actively involved in
other on campus organizations.
Previously, Amber
interned with Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia in Buffalo,
WV. She now works as a refining engineer for Marathon Petroleum
in Catlettsburg, KY.
Secretary: Kenan Hatipoglu, Ph.D.
kenan.hatipoglu@mail.wvu.edu
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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.
Webmaster: Houbing Song, Ph.D.
h.song@ieee.org; Houbing.Song@mail.wvu.edu
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Houbing
Song (M’12-SM’14) serves on the faculty of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at West Virginia University Institute
of Technology and the founding director of both West Virginia
Center of Excellence for Cyber-Physical Systems (WVCECPS) and Security
and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG
Lab). Dr. Song’s research interests lie in the areas of optical
communications and networking, wireless communications and networking,
cyber-physical systems, internet of things, connected vehicles, smart
grid communications and networking, and body sensor networks. Dr.
Song’s research has been supported by West Virginia Higher Education
Policy Commission. Dr. Song has been invited by NSF as one of leading
experts from academia, industry and government to participate in a
couple of workshops, including STN 2013, TransportationCPS2014, pSW2014, DriveSense 2014, Wireless
Edge 2014, and ECI 2015.
He serves as a panelist for NSF.
He
received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Virginia in 2012. In 2007, he was an engineering research associate
at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
Dr. Song
is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. Dr. Song has served on
the technical program committee for numerous international conferences,
including ICC, GLOBECOM, INFOCOM, WCNC, SmartGridComm,
SECON, ICCVE, VNC, OFC, ICCPS, GreenCom, WiMob, ICIP, ICCIT, ICIIP, CEAT, PECON, ISIEA,
EUSPN and ChinaCom. Dr. Song was the general
chair of the first IEEE ICCC International Workshop on Internet of
Things (IOT 2013), held in Xi’an, China, the general chair and the
technical program committee chair of the first symposium on
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS 2013), held in Montgomery, WV, the general
chair of the second IEEE ICCC International Workshop on Internet of
Things (IOT 2014), held in Shanghai, China, and the general chair of
the first IEEE ICC International Workshop on Security and Privacy in
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (IoT/CPS-Security
2015), held in London, UK. Dr. Song is an area editor or associate
editor for several international journals and a guest editor of 5
special issues. Dr. Song has been the associate editor-in-chief of the
blue book series in internet of things since 2011. Dr. Song has
published more than 40 academic papers in peer-reviewed international
journals and conferences.
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