Welcome to the Website of Professor Ali Emadi's research lab at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, one of the world's leading academic research programs focused on pioneering sustainable energy-efficient solutions from advanced power electronic converters and electric motor drives to electric, hybrid electric, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
IIT's ACE I finished 3rd overall in the 2008
Formula Hybrid competition!
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Power Electronics and Motor Drives Laboratory4

Featured Team Member
Dr. Fernando Rodriguez
Senior Research Associate
Fernando Rodriguez received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL. He also received his doctorate degree from IIT, where he was the recipient of the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellowship.
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News and Updates
2009 ECE Research Day
Again our lab won the top awards at the 2009 ECE Research Day Poster Competition. More than 100 electrical and computer engineering graduate and doctoral students presented posters highlighting their research. Priscilla Mulhall received the grand prize among all master's students. Igor Stamenkovic received the award in the area of power in Ph.D. category. Congratulations to Priscilla and Igor.
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Featured Research Project
Digital Control of Electric Motor Drives
Emadi's research team has developed a patented digital technological breakthrough in motor drive design and control that is extremely simple and far less expensive to implement than existing technology. This invention can transform standard appliances into 'smart,' variable speed appliances that can be controlled by a computer chip.
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©2009 Ali Emadi, Director, Electric Power and Power Electronics Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
3301 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60616, USA | Phone: +1-312.567.8940 | E-mail: emadi@iit.edu