Honorary Chairs

Frede Blaabjerg      Aalborg University, Denmark
Carlo Cecati     Università de L'Aquila, Italy

General Chairs

Marco Liserre     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
John Y. Hung     Auburn University, USA

Technical Program Chairs

Aldo Boglietti     Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Thilo Sauter     Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Control Systems & Applications Chairs

Mo-Yuen Chow North     Carolina State University, USA
David Naso     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Xinghou Yu     Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Pericle Zanchetta     University of Nottingham, UK

Sensors, Actuators & System Integration Chairs

Seta Bogosyan     University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Seiji Hata     Kagawa University, Japan
Juan José Rodriguez-Andina     University of Vigo, Spain

Power Electronics Chairs

Mariusz Malinowski     Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Kyo-Beum Le     Ajou University, South Korea
Keyue Smedley     University of California, USA
Remus Teodorescu     Aalborg University, Denmark

Electrical Machines & Drives Chairs

Chandan Chakraborty     Indian Institute of Technology, India
Francesco Cupertino      Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Ali Emadi     Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Signal Processing & Computational Intelligence Chairs

Kim F. Man      City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Milos Manic     University of Idaho, USA

Factory Automation & Industrial Informatics Chairs

Gennaro Boggia     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Ronald Schoop     Schneider Electric, Germany
Richard Zurawski     Atut Technology, USA

Robotics & Mechatronics Chairs

Hiroshi Fujimoto     Yokohama National University, Japan
Roberto Oboe     University of Padova, Italy
Yousef Ibrahim     Monash University, Australia

Emerging Technologies Chairs

Gerhard Hancke     University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ju-Jang Lee     KAIST, South Korea
Alberto Pigazo     University of Cantabria, Spain

Organizing Committee

Antonio Dell'Aquila, Chairman     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Ciro Attaianese     Università di Cassino, Italy
Pietro Camarda     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Domenico Casadei     Università di Bologna, Italy
Timothy Chang     New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Francesco Corsi     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Andrea Del Pizzo     Università Federico II di Napoli, Italy
Enrico De Tuglie     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Arcangelo Distante     ISSIA-CNR, Italy
Farhat Fnaiech     University of Tunis, Tunisia
Friedrich W. Fuchs     University of Kiel, Germany
Luis Gomes     New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Josep M. Guerrero     Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Haitham Abu-Rub     Texas A&M University at Qatar
Steffan Hansen     Danfoss Drives, Denmark
Lars Helle     Vestas, Denmark
Daniel Hissel     University of Franche-Comté, France
Piero Larizza     Masmec, Italy
Pietro Lecce     Jonica Impianti, Italy
Emil Levi     Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Ashwin M. Khambadkone     National University of Singapore, Singapore
Christian Klumpner     University of Nottingham, UK
Mariusz Malinowski     Technical University of Warsaw, Poland
Santolo Meo     Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy
Rosario Miceli     Università di Palermo, Italy
Orazio Mirabella     Università di Catania, Italy
Marta Molinas     University of Trondheim, Norway
Eric Monmasson     University of Cergy, France
Adel Nasiri     University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Kiyoshi Ohishi     Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Mario Pacas     University of Siegen, Germany
Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen     University of Groningen, Holland
Silvio Stasi     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Paul Bach Thøgersen     KK-electronic, Denmark
Biagio Turchiano     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Alfredo Vagati     Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Massimo Vitelli     Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy

Publicity Chairs

Kamal Al-Haddad     Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada
Xinbo Ruan     Nanjing University, China
Giovanni Spagnuolo     Università di Salerno, Italy

Special Session Chairs

Emilio J. Bueno Peña     University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Pierluigi Siano     Università di Salerno, Italy
Maria I. Valla     National University of La Plata, Argentina

Tutorial Chairs

Gianluca Cena     Politecnico di Torino, Italy
José Rodriguez     Technical University Federico Santa Maria, Chile

Finance Chair

Francesco Cupertino     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Terry Martin     University of Arkansas, USA

Publication Chair

Luigi Salvatore     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Jang Myung Lee     Pusan National University, Korea

Web & Information Chair

Alfredo Grieco     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Agostino Lecci     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Antonio Luque Estepa     University of Seville, Spain

Student Forum Chairs

Giuseppe Acciani     Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Giovanni De Gasperis     Università de L'Aquila, Italy
Pedro Rodriguez     Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Industry Liaison

Michael W. Condry     Intel, USA
Luca Dalessandro     Alstom Power, Switzerland
Steve Hung     Clemson University, USA
Antonio Valentini     O3NEIDA, Italy

International Advisory Board

Giuseppe Buja, Chairman     Università di Padova, Italy
Greg Asher     Univesity of Nottingham, UK
Ion Boldea     Technical University of Timisoara, Romania
Silverio Bolognani     Università di Padova, Italy
Bimal K. Bose     University of Tennessee, USA
Alberto Broggi     VisLab & University of Parma, Italy
Gerard-André Capolino     University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
Marcian Cirstea Anglia     Ruskin University, UK
Alfio Consoli     Università di Catania, Italy
Carlos Couto     University of Minho, Portugal
Charles W. Einolf     Jr. consultant, USA
Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo     University of Seville, Spain
Fumio Harashima     Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Hideki Hashimoto     University of Tokyo, Japan
Joachim Holtz     University of Wuppertal, Germany
Yoichi Hori     University of Tokyo, Japan
James C. Hung     University of Tennessee, USA
J. David Irwin     Auburn University, USA
Rokuya Ishii     Yokohama National University, Japan
Karel Jezernik     University of Maribor, Slovenia
Okyay Kaynak     Bogazici University, Turkey
Marian P. Kazmierkowski     Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Ren C. Luo     Nanyang Technological University, Taiwan
Ned Mohan     University of Minnesota, USA
István Nagy     Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Kouhei Ohnishi     Keio University, Japan
Nedjeljko Peric     University of Zagreb, Croatia
Francesco Profumo     Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Krishnan Ramu     Virginia Tech, USA
Bruno Siciliano     Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Javier Uceda     Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Bogdan M. Wilamowski     Auburn University, USA