General Co-Chair
Shanelle Foster
Michigan State University, USA
hogansha@egr.msu.edu
Finance Chair
Fei Lu
Lehigh University
fel324@lehigh.edu
Sanjida Moury
Toronto Transit Commission
sanjida.moury@ieee.org
Dong Cao
GE Aerospace
dongcao@ieee.org
Technical Program Chairs
Navid Zargari *Lead TPC
Rockwell Automation
nrzargari@ra.rockwell.com
Giulio De Donato
Sapienza University of Rome
giulio.dedonato@uniroma1.it
Pablo Garcia
University of Oviedo
garciafpablo@uniovi.es
Behrooz Mirafzal
Kansas State University
mirafzal@sc.edu
Mahshid Amirabadi
Northeastern University
m.amirabadi@northeastern.edu
Tanya Gachovska
MDA
tgachovska@yahoo.com
Publications Chairs
Brian Welchko
General Motors, USA
brian.welchko@gm.com
Nouman Ahmed
University of Pavia
nouman.ahmed@iusspavia.it
Norma Anglani
University of Pavia
norma.anglani@unipv.it
Local Chairs
Ignacio (Nacho) Zurbriggen
University of British Columbia
Francisco (Pancho) Paz
Alpha-Enersys
franciscopaz@ieee.org
Kris Eberle
Plexim
eberle@plexim.com
Exhibition Chairs
David Morrison
How2Power, USA
david@how2power.com
Kris Eberle
Plexim, USA
eberle@plexim.com
Shannon Chesley
CAE Experts
shannon@caeexperts.com
Industry Partnership Chairs
Bulent Sarlioglu
University of Wisconsin – Madison
sarlioglu@wisc.edu
Mazharul (Maz) Chowdhury
GM
mazharul.chowdhury@gm.com
Sustainability chairs
Marium Rasheed
Ford Motor Company
marium.rasheed@ieee.org
Brian Zahnstecher
PowerRox
bz@powerrox.com
Tutorial Chairs
Anant Singh
Tesla
anant_singh@ieee.org
Kishnan Joshi
Intel
kishan.g.joshi@ieee.org
Sandun Kuruppu
Western Michigan University
sandun.kuruppu@wmich.edu
Publicity/Electronic Media Chairs
Gen Li
NCEPU
genli@ncepu.edu.cn
Maria Martinez
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
martinezgmaria@uniovi.es
Hanwen Zhang
University of Bath
hz2153@bath.ac.uk
Plenary Session Chairs
Ozge Taskin
Protean Electric / Advanced Motor Research Group
ozge.taskin@ieee.org
Chiara Boccaletti
Sapienza University of Rome
chiara.boccaletti@uniroma1.it
Omid Beik
Michigan State University
beikomid@msu.edu
Special Sessions Chairs
Sara Roggia
Magnix
sara.roggia@gmail.com
Matt Woongkul Lee
Purdue University
wklee@purdue.edu
Ryan Li
University of Alberta
yunwei.li@ualberta.ca
Awards Chairs
Jonathan Bird
Portland State University
jonathanbird@pdx.edu
WIE Chairs
Young Professional & Student Activities Chairs
Xiaoqing “Jason” Song
University of Arkansas, USA
songx@uark.edu
Hang Dai
Utah State University
hang.dai@usu.edu
Organizing Committee Members
Conference Webmasters
Chaitanya Jaolekar
Halla Mechatronics, USA
cjaolekar@gmail.com
Akshat Nigam
Accenture, India
akshatnigam987@gmail.com
Conference Management
Rebecca Krishnamurthy
RNA Associates
rebecca.k@rna-associates.com
Laura Boggie
RNA Associates
laura.b@rna-associates.com
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