Vita

Dr. Ali Feliachi was born in Biskra, Algeria. He received the Diplôme d'Ingénieur en Electrotechnique from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers in 1976 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1979 and 1983 respectively.

He worked for the Algerian National Electric and Gas Company (SONELGAZ) in 1976. He held a post doctoral position at Georgia Tech and was a consultant to Georgia Power Co. before joining the faculty of Electrical Engineering (now Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department) at West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor in December 1983. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1987, and to Full Professor in 1990. On March 1, 2001, he was appointed the Electric Power Systems Chair, an endowed position in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. He is the first holder of this Endowed Chair. He is also the founder and Director of the Advanced Power & Electricity Research Center.

Dr. Feliachi has been working in the field of modeling, control and simulation of Large Scale Systems in general, and electric power systems in particular, for more than 30 years and has published over 220 journal and conference papers including articles in IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Education, as well as in the International Journal of Control, and IEE Proceedings.

His research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Allegheny Power System, Duquesne Light, the West Virginia University National Research Center for Coal and Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense.

Dr. Feliachi is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He received the ASEE North Central Section Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 1987, the following awards from the College of Engineering at West Virginia University: Leadership Award in 1989, Outstanding Researcher Award in 1991, 2004 and 2005, Researcher of the Year in 2005, Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award in 1991. In 1994 he received the Claude Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award for the Sciences and Technology from West Virginia University.

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