Dr. Haithem Abu-Rub

Associate Professor

Office Number: 302B
Office Phone: +974 4423-0110
Fax Number: +974 4423-0011
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INTEREST AREAS

Haitham Abu-Rub's research contributions, as well as his on-going efforts/investigations in the area of AC drives and power electronics, can be classified into the following topics:

• Control of electric machines; eg. vector control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, model predictive control
• Power electronic converters, two-level and multilevel, matrix converter, ZSI
• Artificial Intelligence in machines and power electronics control, eg. fuzzy logic, neural networks
• Renewable energy conversion for PV and wind systems, maximum power point tracking
• Condition monitoring and fault detection in electrical machines and drives
  

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science, Gdansk University, 2004
• Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, 1995
• Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland, 1990

EXPERIENCE

• Associate professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar, present
• Visiting associate professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar, 2006 to 2008.
• Research Fellowship - Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 2005/2006.
• Head of Electrical Engineering Department, Birzeit University, Palestinian Autonomy, from September  2000 to August 2004.
• Associate Professor at Birzeit University from September 2001 until August 2006.
• Assistant Professor at Birzeit University from September 1997 until August 2001.
• Scientific-Didactic Adjunct (Assistant Professor) at the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland September 1996 until August 1997.
• Representative and Engineer, Enamor, Gdynia Marine University, Poland, 2006.
• Teaching assistant at Gdynia Maritime Academy in Poland from 1991 to 1995.
• Researcher at different universities (USA, Germany, UK).

AWARDS

• Arab Fund Fellowship Program, Kuwait, (http://www.arabfund.org/arindex.htm), for the academic year 2006/2007, not used
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 12 months scholarship at University of Wuppertal, Germany, 2005/2006
• International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund ('Fund'), USA, 2004 (http://www.iie.org/SRF/home)
• Outstanding contribution,  International Conference - Power Electronics /Intelligent Motion /Power quality (PCIM), Nuremberg, Germany, 2002
• Outstanding contribution, International Conference - Power Electronics /Intelligent Motion /Power quality (PCIM), Nuremberg, Germany, 2001
• Received 'Best Presentation Award' at the 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in Denver (IECON'01), USA, 2001
• Fulbright scholarship, Texas A&M University, USA, 2001
• British Royal Society's Scholarship, University of Southampton (UK) for two months, 2000
• German DAAD scholarship, Ruhr Bochum University (Germany), for two months, 1999
  

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Lewicki, A., Krzeminski, Z., and Abu-Rub, H., Pulse Width Modulation for Three-Level NPC Converter with the Neutral Point Voltage Control, accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2011.
• Ahmed, SK M., Iqbal, A., Abu-Rub, H., Rodriguez, J., and Rojas, C., "Simple carrier-based PWM technique for a three to nine phase matrix converter", IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics,10-1617-TIE (accepted), 2011.
• Guzinski, J, Abu-Rub, H., Diguet, M., Krzeminski, Z., and Lewicki, A. "Speed and Load Torque Observers Application in High Speed Train Electric Drive", IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 2, February 2010, pp. 565-574.
• Abu-Rub, H., Holtz, J., Rodriguez, J., and Baoming, G., "Medium Voltage Multilevel Converters - State of the Art, Challenges and Requirements in Industrial Applications", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 8, August 2010, pp. 2581 - 2596.
• Abu-Rub, H., Iqbal, A., Amin, S., Abdelkader, G., Salem, N., Mansoor, S., Mirza T, Ahmed, S. "Feasibility Analysis of Solar Photo-voltaic Array Cladding On Commercial Towers in Doha, Qatar-A Case Study" Int. Journal of Sustainable Energy, Taylor & Francis vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 76-86, June 2010.- http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/tandf~db=all.