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Mo-Yuen Chow earned his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1982); and Cornell University (M. Eng., 1983; Ph.D., 1987). Upon completion of his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Chow joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor in 1993, and a Professor since 1999. Dr. Chow is a Changjiang Scholar and a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University. He worked in U.S. Army, TACOM TARDEC Division as a Senior Research Scientist during the summer of 2003. He spent his sabbatical leave as a Visiting Scientist in 1995 in ABB Automated Distribution Division.



Dr. Chow’s research focuses on fault detection, diagnosis, and prognosis, time-sensitive distributed control systems, and computational intelligence. He has been applying his research to areas including smart grids, power distribution systems, transportation systems, batteries, motors, robotics and mechatronics. He has served as a Principal Investigator in several projects supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, Army, NASA, BD Technologies, Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, Electric Power Research Center, Nortel Company, Electric Power Research Institute, Duke Power Company, ABB Company, and Quantar Technologies..



Dr. Chow has established the Advanced Diagnosis, Automation and Control Laboratory at NC State University. He has published one book, seven book chapters, and over one hundred journal and conference articles. Dr. Chow is an IEEE Fellow, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, was a co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, a past Technical Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He was the Vice President for Publication of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2006-2007, and the Vice President for Membership of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2000-2001. He was the General Chair of IEEE-IECON05, and the General Co-Chair of IEEE-IECON10. Dr. Chow served as a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics Focus Section on Mechatronics in Multi Robot Systems (2009), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics special sections on Distributed Network-Based Control Systems and Applications (2003), on Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis (2000), and on Application of Intelligent Systems to Industrial Electronics (1993). He was a Senior Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2003. He has received the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2004, the IEEE Region-3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2005, the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Outstanding Service Award in 2007.



Last Update: March 31, 2010.