Dr. Akshay Kumar Rathore of Concordia University

Biography:

Akshay Kumar Rathore (M’05 - SM’12) received the M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 2003. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, in 2008. He had two subsequent Postdoctoral Research Appointments with the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA. From November 2010 to February 2016, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He has published more than 200 research papers in international journals and conferences including 65 IEEE Transactions. His research is mainly focused on currentfed converters and multilevel inverters. He is leading the area of current-fed power electronics and contributed to analysis, design, and development of new classes of such converters. 

Dr. Rathore is an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, and IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS. He is Paper Review Chair of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications for Industrial Automation and Control. He is a Distinguished Lecturer and Executive Board Member-at-Large of IEEE Industry Applications Society. He received the Gold Medal during his M.Tech. degree for securing highest academic standing among all electrical engineering specializations. He was a recipient of University Ph.D. Fellowship and Thouvenelle Graduate Scholarship during his PhD. He also received the 2013 IEEE IAS Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award, 2014 Isao Takahashi Power Electronics Award and 2017 IEEE IES Early Career Award.