Saifurs Math Book

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ProfessorSaifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment at the university. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner. He was the president of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) for 2018 and 2019. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He has published more than 160 journal papers and has made more than 500 conference and invited presentations. His h-index is 56 with close to seventeen thousand citations. In 2006 he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the vice president for publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for IEEE PES and has lectured on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, energy internet, blockchain, IoT sensor integration, etc. in over 30 countries. He is the founder of BEM Controls, LLC, a Virginia (USA)-based software company providing building energy management solutions. He served as the chair of the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. His research at Virginia Tech has been funded by Duke Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy, and the State of Virginia. He has a PhD in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech.

Gurunath Kedar is an experienced automotive professional with around 15 years of experience in the automotive electrification industry. Gurunath has a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering with focus on electrified powertrain systems. As an experienced professional, he has led the development of several electrified programs at a major OEM and at a TIER-1 supplier and is well versed with the challenges of the industry and the future trends. He also has several technical publications in this field.

Dr. Tanya Morton is the worldwide director of customer success engineering for MathWorks, the makers of MATLAB and Simulink. She has worked at the forefront of innovation, engineering, and science for 27 years, including 18 years in customer-facing roles at MathWorks and 4 years as a leader at a technology start-up. She is passionate about sustainability and leads an initiative to support engineers and scientists working on understanding and tackling climate change. She holds an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in mathematics and computer science from Vanderbilt University.

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