Reminder: [Recordatorio] 2023 IEEE PES Elections – PES Officers

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Les recordamos la importancia de ejercer su derecho a voto en las elecciones de 2023 IEEE PES Elections - PES Officers. El voto puede realizarse hasta las 12:00 pm (ET) del 2 de octubre de 2023 a través del siguiente enlace (opción VOTE NOW) https://ieee-pes.org/news/announcing-2023-ieee-pes-elections-pes-officers/

A continuación se envía una información breve de los candidatos para President-Elect:

Claudio A. Cañizares

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada 

I have been at the University of Waterloo since 1993, where I am a University Professor, Hydro One Chair, and WISE Executive Director.  My highly-cited research with industry and government partners has focused on relevant and practical aspects of power and energy systems in the context of markets and grid-edge technologies like microgrids.  I am the IEEE Trans. Smart Gird EIC; IEEE Division VII Director; a Fellow of the IEEE, Royal Society of Canada, and Canadian Academy of Engineering; and has received multiple awards and recognitions from Waterloo and the PES.

C.Y. Chung

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 

Prof. C.Y. Chung is the Head of Department and Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU). He received his B.Eng. (with First Class Honors) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from HKPolyU. He has worked in Canada for the University of Saskatchewan; Powertech Labs, Inc.; and the University of Alberta. His research interests include smart grid, micro grid, and renewable energy.

Farnoosh Rahmatian

NuGrid Power Corp, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dr. Rahmatian is a co-founder and president of NuGrid Power Corp.  He has contributed to several techniques for power system measurement and automation over the past 30 years.  He is a Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the IEEE for contribution to optical voltage and current sensors.  He is a past Chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society’s (PES) Technical Council, active at PES Power System Relaying and Control as well as Power System Instrumentation and Measurements committees.