Dr. Hamid Toliyat, Raytheon Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University received the 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nikola Tesla Award.
The Nikola Tesla Award is given for outstanding contributions to the generation and utilization of electric power. Toliyat was among the few researchers worldwide who received the 2014 IEEE Field awards.
Toliyat’s award was “For contributions to the design, analysis and control of fault-tolerant multiphase electric machines.”
Toliyat received a bachelor's degree from Sharif University of Technology in 1982, a master's degree from West Virginia University in 1986, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991.
Following receipt of his Ph.D., he joined the faculty of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. In March 1994 he joined the department at Texas A&M.
Toliyat is a fellow of the IEEE and is a member of Sigma Xi. He has received several best paper awards from IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Industry Application and IEEE Power Engineering Societies.
Toliyat received the prestigious Cyrill Veinott Award in Electromechanical Energy Conversion from the IEEE Power Engineering Society in 2004 and also has received numerous awards from Texas A&M, NASA and the Schlumberger Foundation.
Toliyat has supervised more than 80 graduate students, post doctoral students and research engineers, resulting in more than 400 technical papers, more than 80 invited lectures all over the world and 13 issued and pending US patents. He is the author/co-author of DSP-Based Electromechanical Motion Control, Handbook of Electric Motors - 2nd Edition, and Electric Machines – Modeling, Condition Monitoring, and Fault Diagnosis. Toliyat has been a consultant to more than 30 US and international companies.
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