Dr. Ehab F. El-Saadany is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to distributed generation planning, operation, and control. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1964. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1998, where he was a Professor with the ECE Department till 2019, where he was the Director of the Power MEng program between 2010 and 2015. Currently, he is a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Dean of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Khalifa University, UAE. 

Dr. El-Saadany is an Internationally recognized expert in sustainable energy integration and smart distribution systems. His research interests include smart grid operation and control, microgrids, transportation electrification, self-healing, cyber-physical security of smart grids, protection, power quality, and embedded generation. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.  

Dr. El-Saadany has graduated 34 Ph.D. and 22 M.Sc. students and published 450+ international journal and conference papers in addition to 1 US patents. Dr. El-Saadany is a two-time recipient of Canada Research Chair Award in Energy Systems (2009-2014) and Smart Distribution Systems (2014-2018). He received the Mission Innovation Champion award in 2020 and the prestigious Khalifa Award in 2021. Further, he received the 2023 Mohamed Bin Rashid Medal for Scientific Excellence.