Dr. Al-Haddad is an international leader in the advancement of power electronics technology and its practical applications in traction, power utilities, renewable energy, smart micro/nano grids, lighting and telecommunications industry. He has natural ability to understand practical problems, provide innovative solutions for complex problems and apply them to practical applications. Dr. Al-Haddad has published over 100 journal and 500 conference papers reporting the scientific advances in the field. He has shown the technical leadership and has the credit of applying some of the published and classified research in industry in the design and development power electronic converters. He has supervised and guided over 100 graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and power electronics engineers in academic and industrial research. He transferred 23 technologies to Canadian and international industry and published 2 books. He is the first Canadian to get elected as 2016-2017 president of the prestigious IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Since 2000, he holds Canada senior research chair in Electric Energy Conversion and Power Electronics and is currently a professor at l'École de Technologie Supérieure.