The Sixth IASTED Asian Conference on
Power and Energy Systems
AsiaPES 2013
April 10 – 12, 2013
Phuket, Thailand
INVITED SPEAKER
Biography of the Invited Speaker
Doron Shmilovitz (M’98) was born in Romania in 1963. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1986, 1993, and 1997, respectively, all in electrical engineering. During 1986–1990, he worked in R&D for the IAF, where he developed programmable electronic loads. During 1997–1999, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the New York Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. Since 2000, he has been with the Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, where he has established a state-of-the-art power electronics and power quality research laboratory. Prof. Shmilovitz has authored and coauthored over 100 papers, of which over 30 in refereed journals. His research interests include switched-mode converters, topology, dynamics and control, power quality, and special applications of power electronics, such as for alternative energy sources and the powering of sensor networks and implanted medical devices, and general circuit theory.