Alan Mantooth received the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. After 8 years in industry, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he currently holds the rank of Distinguished Professor. He is the Founding Director for the NSF Center on GRid-connected Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES), and Deputy Director of the NSF ERC on Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, and Division II Director-Elect on the IEEE Board of Directors. Dr. Mantooth is a Fellow of IEEE, a past President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and a registered professional engineer in Arkansas.
Thierry A. Meynard graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrotechnique, d’Electronique, d’Hydraulique de Toulouse in 1985, became a Doctor of the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France, in 1988 and was then an invited researcher at the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada, in 1989. He joined the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) as a full-time researcher in
1990. He is now Directeur de Recherches CNRS at the LAPLACE, but in parallel he has been also involved in several industry-related activities.