Prof. Hamid A. Toliyat is the Robert Kennedy ’26 Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (1982), his M.S. from West Virginia University (1986), and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1991). After completing his doctorate, he served as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, before joining Texas A&M in 1994.

 

Prof. Toliyat is renowned for his pioneering research in the analysis, design, and fault diagnosis of electrical machines, variable speed drives for traction and propulsion, and magnetic gear integrated electric machines. His work is highly influential, with over 35,000 citations and an H-index of 90. He has supervised more than 120 postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and research engineers; published 180 journal papers and 386 conference papers; co-authored 11 books and book chapters—including DSP-Based Electromechanical Motion Control (CRC Press, 2003), the Handbook of Electric Motors, 2nd Edition (Marcel Dekker, 2004), and Electric Machines – Modeling, Condition Monitoring, and Fault Diagnosis (CRC Press, 2013); and holds 25 issued and pending U.S. patents. He has delivered over 100 invited lectures worldwide.

Prof. Toliyat’s contributions have earned him numerous honors, including the IEEE Nikola Tesla Field Award (2014) for outstanding contributions to fault-tolerant multiphase electric machines, the IEEE Power Engineering Society Cyril Veinott Award (2004), the NASA Space Act Award (1999), and multiple Texas A&M distinctions such as the Faculty Star Award (2022), Engineering Genesis Award (2021), and several Patent and Innovation Awards. He is also recipient of the TEES Faculty Fellow Award, Distinguished Teaching Award, Eugene Webb Faculty Fellow Award, E.D. Brockett Professorship, the Texas A&M Select Young Investigator Award, and the Schlumberger Foundation Technical Awards.

He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi, and a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He served as Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and chaired the IEEE-IAS Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department. Prof. Toliyat has received several best paper and prize paper awards from prominent IEEE societies. In 2005, he was General Chair of the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC’05).

Prof. Toliyat is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded FluxWorks, Inc., a technology startup, in 2021.