I was born in Mexico City, received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. In 1992 I have obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada. From 1992 to 1997 I was with the Graduate Division of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the IPN, Mexico. From September 1997 to August 1998 I was on a sabbatical leave at McGill University in Montreal, and from September 1998 to April 1999 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto.

I have worked for Windomotion (a Magna International Company – QS9000 – in Newmarket, Ontario) during 1999. From 1999 to 2001 I worked for Plitron Manufacturing (Toronto) in the research and development of standard and special toroidal transformers. I have worked as an industry consultant for the Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) and Industrias IEM (formerly Westinghouse, Mexico) from 1994 to 1997 and for L&K International Training in Toronto during 1999 and 2000.  From September 2001 to December 2003 I was with Universidad Michoacana in Morelia, Mexico.  From 2004 to 2007 I was the Director of R&D at CYME International T&D in St. Bruno (Quebec) developing professional grade software for the analysis of power and distribution systems. In September 2007 I have joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Polytechnic University now Polytechnic Institute of New York University as Associate Professor.

In 2002 I was promoted to IEEE Senior Member. I am an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and Editor/Coordinator of the Power Engineering Letters.

My areas of greater teaching and research interest include the electromagnetic design and modeling of electrical machines, the analysis of power systems (transients and steady state), cable ampacity, and the definitions of power for nonlinear and unbalanced circuits.

• 39 journal papers
• 14 refereed discussions (IEEE Transactions)
• 35 conference papers and other publications
• 1 chapter in a book
• 225+ citations (Science Citation Index)
• 7 Postdoctoral fellows and visitors
• 3 Ph.D. students graduated
• 13 M.Sc. students graduated

Sujit Purushothaman, “Application and Design of Induction Machine Damping Unit (IMDU) for Eliminating Subsynchronous Resonance”, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, December 2011.

Resk Uosef, “The Impact of Distributed Generation on Secondary Networks”, Polytechnic Institute of NYU (Poly), January 2011.

Jose Cohen, “On the Definitions and the Calculation of Powers in Nonlinear Circuits”, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), April 1999.