Organizing Committee

General Chair
Ali Emadi, McMaster University

Program Chair
Alireza Khaligh, University of Maryland at College Park

Program Co-Chair
Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Illinois Institute of Technology

Publicity Chair
Donald F. Hendrickson Jr., Northrop Grumman

Publications Chair
Kaushik Rajashekara, Rolls Royce

Exhibit Chair
Babak Fahimi, University of Texas at Dallas

Tutorial Chair
Suresh Gopalakrishnan, General Motors

Awards Chair
John Shen, University of Central Florida

Energy Policy Panel Chair
James Gover, Kettering University

Automotive Industry Liaison Chair
Jay Iyengar, Chrysler LLC

Heavy-Duty Vehicle Industry Liaison Co-Chairs
Darren Gosbee, Navistar
William Batten, Eaton Corporation

Rail Vehicle Industry Liaison Chair
Stephen J. Bareis, Electro-Motive Diesel

Aerospace Industry Liaison Chair
Waleed Said, Hamilton Sundstrand

Battery Industry Liaison Chair
Said Al-Hallaj, All Cell Technologies

Electronics Industry Liaison Chair
Jim Spangler, Cirrus Logic

Electrical Infrastructure Liaison Chair
Deepak Divan, Georgia Institute of Technology

Fleet Liaison Co-Chairs
Matthew Stewart, City of Chicago Department of Fleet Management
Daniel Gabel, Commonwealth Edison Fleet

Government Liaison Co-Chairs
Gus Khalil, US Army TARDEC
Laura Marlino, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mike Duoba, Argonne National Laboratory
Michael O’Keefe, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Doug Scott, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

IEEE Chicago Section Liaison Chair
Robert G. Burke, EN Engineering

North American Liaison Co-Chairs
Noel Mack, Magna Powertrain
Hong Yang, General Motors
Tim Richter, GE Global Research

South American Liaison Chair
Juan Dixon, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile

European Liaison Chair
Rik De Doncker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Asian Liaison Co-Chairs
C.C. Chan, University of Hong Kong/Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Yoichi Hori, University of Tokyo, Japan
Byoung-Kuk Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Australian Liaison Chair
Dean Patterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Technical Track Chairs and Co-Chairs

Track 1: Electronics, Power Electronics and Motor Drives
Chair: Burak Ozpineci, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Co-Chair: Zhong Nie, Chrysler LLC, USA
Co-Chair: Ilse Cervantes, Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Co-Chair: Dong-Kyun Ryu, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., South Korea

Track 2: Electric Machines
Chair: Narayan C. Kar, University of Windsor, Canada
Co-Chair: Wayne W. Weaver, Michigan Technological University, USA
Co-Chair: Jun-Hyuk Choi, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, South Korea

Track 3: Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Chair: Sheldon Willimason, Concordia University, Canada
Co-Chair: Anand Sathyan, Chrysler LLC, USA
Co-Chair: Hyun-Soo Kang, Advance Drive Technology, South Korea

Track 4: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Smart Grid, and Electrical Infrastructure
Chair: Srdjan Lukic, North Carolina State University, USA
Co-Chair: Rae-Kwan Park, Advanced Drive Technology, South Korea

Track 5: Energy Storage
Chair: Francisco Perez-Pinal, McMaster University, Canada
Co-Chair: Yun-Sung Kim, Dong-Ah Elecomm Co., South Korea

Track 6: Fuel Cells and Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles
Chair: Benjamin Blunier, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Co-Chair: Omer C. Onar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Track 7: Land Vehicles
Chair: Jin Wang, Ohio State University, USA
Co-Chair: Keyu Chen, University of Lille, France

Track 8: Sea, Undersea, Air, and Space Vehicles
Chair: Chris Edrington, Florida State University, USA
Co-Chair: Yong Fu, Mississippi State University, USA

Track 9: Mechanical, Hydraulic, and Pneumatic Systems
Chair: Reza Ghorbani, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Co-Chair: Yaoyu Li, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Track 10: Modeling, Simulation, Emissions, and Control
Chair: David W. Gao, Tennessee Tech University, USA
Co-Chair: Ali Davoudi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA