Ryan M. Ahmed

Ryan Ahmed received the M.A.Sc. degree from McMaster University, focusing on artificial intelligence and fault detection, the M.B.A. degree in finance from the DeGroote School of Business, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering, focusing on battery modeling, state of charge, and state of health estimation. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster University, he held several senior engineering positions globally with General Motors, Fiat-Chrysler, and Samsung. He taught several courses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to over 340,000 students from 160 countries with more than 29,000 five-star reviews and an overall rating of 4.5/5. He is the principal author and the coauthor of over 35 journal and conference publications. His research interests include smart systems, artificial intelligence, energy storage devices, autonomous systems, and electric powertrains. He was a co-recipient of two Best Papers Awards at the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, in 2018; and at the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC 2012), Detroit, MI, USA. He is a Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) and a Certified Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario. He was the Program Co-Chair of the 2017 IEEE Transportation and Electrification Conference (iTEC’17), Chicago, IL, USA.