Professional Service

• IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. Role: Guest Associate Editor. Special issue titled “Special Issue on Complex Vector Theory and its Application in Power Electronic Systems,”. 02/2019 - 07/2019
• International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing . Role: Subject editor. Organizer of a special issue. 09/01/2014 - 09/01/2016
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Member of the Guidance, Navigation & Control Technical Committee. 05/2013 - 05/2016
• Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France. Member of the jury for the Accreditation to Supervise Research of Dr. Malek Ghanes. 09/2012 - 11/2012
• IFAC. Role: Member. International Program Committee, 11th IFAC International Workshop on Periodic Systems Control, 3-5 July 2013, Caen, France. 02/2012 - 05/2012
• ICSC. Role: Member. International Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Systems and Computer Science, 29-31 August 2012, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. 09/2011 - 06/2012
• CIFA. Role: Member. International Program Committee, Conférence Internationale Francophone d’Automatique, Grenoble, France, July 2012. 09/2011 - 02/2012
• Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse. Role: Member of the jury. Evaluation of the Ph.D. thesis of Sébastien Carrière. 05/28/2010 - 05/28/2010
• IEEE. Role: Chair/Secretary. Utah Chapter of the IEEE's Power & Energy Society. Organized meetings with invited seminar speakers and sent news items by email to members of the society and to other power engineers. 12/28/2008 - 12/31/2015

Honors & Awards

• Life Fellow. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01/01/2023
• Visiting professor. Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Énergie, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse. Université de Toulouse, 06/2022
• Visiting professor. Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Énergie, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse. Université de Toulouse, 04/2018
• IEEE Utah Section Outstanding Engineer Award and IEEE Region 6 Northeast Area Outstanding Engineer Award, 2016. IEEE, 09/2016
• Visiting professor. Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Énergie, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, 05/2016
• Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Class of 2013. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 11/01/2012
• Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal (LAGIS), École Centrale de Lille, Lille, France, June 22 - July 21, 2012. École Centrale de Lille, 06/2012
• Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal (LAGIS), École Centrale de Lille, Lille, France, May 15 - June 16, 2011. École Centrale de Lille, 05/2011
• Visiting professor. Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Énergie, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, 05/2010
• Engineering Educator of the Year award, received at the E-week banquet. The UEC is an umbrella organization of 15 different local chapters and sections of engineering societies in Utah. Utah Engineers Council, 02/23/2007
• Nominated for the Engineering Educator of the Year award to the Utah Engineers Council (I was selected for the award by the UEC and received it in 2007). Local section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 12/2006
• Fellow, IEEE - for "contributions to the theory of adaptive control to electromechanical and flight control systems.". IEEE, 01/2006
• First plenary speaker at the Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique, held in Douz, Tunisia. Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique, 11/2004
• Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology. IEEE, 07/2000