Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems (RTPIS) Laboratory


Faculty

Dr. Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy

Director – Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Missouri University of Science and Technology

132 Emerson Electric Co. Hall

1870 Miner Circle, Rolla 65409-0040

USA

Tel:573-341-6641

Fax: 573-341-4532

Email:

Personal website: http://web.mst.edu/~ganeshv/

Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronics engineering from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria, in 1994, and the M.Sc.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the founder and the Director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems (RTPIS) Laboratory at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). He was a Visiting Researcher with ABB Corporate Research, Sweden, in 2007. His research interests are in the development and applications of advanced computational algorithms for real-world applications, including power systems stability and control, smart grid applications, sensor networks and signal processing. He has published 2 edited books, 5 book chapters, and over 80 refereed journals papers and 270 refereed conference proceeding papers. He has been involved in approximately US$ 7 Million of competitive research funding.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy is a recipient of several awards including a 2007 US Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award, a 2004 NSF CAREER Award, the 2010 Innovation Award from St. Louis Academy of Science, the 2008 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Educator Award, the 2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2006 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Section Member Award, the 2005 IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Outstanding Young Member Award, the 2005 SAIEE (South Africa) Young Achievers Award, the 2004 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2003 International Neural Network Society Young Investigator (INNS) Award, the 2001 IEEE CIS Walter Karplus Summer Research Award, five prize papers from the IEEE IAS and IEEE CIS, a 2007 Missouri S&T Teaching Commendation Award, a 2006 Missouri S&T School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, a 2008, 2007 and 2005 Missouri S&T Faculty Excellence Award and a 2009 Missouri S&T Faculty Research Award.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy has been involved in the leadership and organization of many conferences including the General Chair of the 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (St. Louis, USA), the Program Chair of 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Atlanta, USA), the Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Portland, USA), the Chair of the 2007 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Sensor Networks (Melbourne, Australia) and the Program Co-Chair of the 2004 International Conference on Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (Chennai, India). He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Working Group on Intelligent Control Systems, the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Task Force on Power Systems Applications, the Secretary of the IEEE PES Intelligent Systems Subcommittee, Vice-Chair of the IEEE PES Students Subcommittee and the Chapter Chairs of IEEE CIS and IEEE Industry Applications Society St. Louis Chapters. He was founding Chair of IEEE CIS St. Louis Chapter. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks from 2004 to 2007 and for the IEEE Transactions on Measurements and Instrumentation in 2007. He was a Guest-Editor of the Neural Networks journal of June/July issue of 2003 and of September/October issue of 2009. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Evolutionary Computation and an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK and the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the International Neural Network Society, and a Member of the American Society for Engineering Education. He is member of Board of Governors of INNS.

Dr. Keith Corzine
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
232 Emerson Electric Co. Hall
1870 Miner Circle
Rolla, MO 65409-0040
USA
Tel:573-341-4884
Fax:573-341-6671
Email:

Personal website:http://www.motorlab.com

Keith A. Corzine (S’92–M’97–SM’06) received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Missouri – Rolla, in 1992, 1994, and 1997, respectively. He taught at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee from 1997 to 2004 and is now a Professor at Missouri University of Science & Technology. His research interests include power electronics, motor drives, naval ship propulsion systems, and electric machinery. Dr. Corzine has published over 30 refereed journal papers, over 50 refereed international conference papers, and holds 2 U.S. patents related to multilevel power conversion. Dr. Corzine is a member of the Power Electronics Society (PELS), Industry Applications Society (IAS), and the Industrial Electronics Society (IES) of IEEE, USA. He is currently the IEEE St. Louis Section Chair and the St. Louis Section IAS Chapter co-chair.