S. Massoud Amin

Biography

Massoud Amin holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, is the director of the Technological Leadership Institute and is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Before joining Minnesota in 2003 , he directed all Infrastructure Security R&D after 9/11 and served as Area Manager of Security, Grid Operations/Planning, Energy Markets, Risk and Policy Assessment at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto. Prior to that he served as head of mathematics and information sciences at EPRI, pioneered R&D and coined the term smart grids in 1998 and worked on self-repairing energy infrastructures, where he led the development of over 24 technologies transferred to industry. He is author or co-author of over 190 peer reviewed papers, and the editor of 7 collections of manuscripts. Board appointments include the Board of Directors of the Texas RE (2010-present), Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2001-2007), and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA) at the National Academy of Sciences (2006-2009). He is on seven editorial boards, is the founding chairman of the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, and serves as chair of the CSS TC-SG. He is a fellow of the ASME, was three times Professor of the Year at Washington University in St. Louis (1992-95), and was inducted into the University of Minnesota's Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2008. At EPRI he received several awards, including six EPRI Performance Recognition Awards for leadership in three areas, and received the 2002 President's Award for the Infrastructure Security Initiative, and twice received the Chauncey Award, the Institute's highest honor.