Salah Khanniche is a senior lecture in the School of Engineering at Swansea University; he obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD from Swansea University in 1981, 1982 and 1985 respectively. He specialised in Power Electronics and embedded real time control applications. He successfully set-up Power Electronic Research activities with many industrial partners in both Robert Gordon’s University Aberdeen from 1986-1989 and in Swansea from 1989 to date.

He supervised over 25 successful postgraduates, the majority worked on industrial projects. He has been the principal and co-investigator of European, Industrial and EPSRC grants worth over two million Pounds. He published over 70 papers and has given more than 10 invited plenary lectures at International Conferences in the UK and abroad. He has chaired the Power Electronics Working Group of European Consortium of 14 Universities under the Erasmus Scheme and organised and delivered many intensive courses in Power Electronics in the UK, Europe and Africa.

He was the Chairman of the IEEE UK & Republic of Ireland Power Electronics Chapter from 2002-07 and has received two certificates of Appreciation from the IEEE. He received the IEEE best Power Electronics chapter award in 2004. He has successfully organised many IEE and IEEE events in the field of Power Electronics, Power Quality, Renewable Energy Systems and Variable Speed Drives. He successfully organised and chaired the 27th International Power Engineering Conference held in Swansea in 2001. He served as a member of scientific/steering committees in many national and international conferences including the European Power Electronic Conference.

Dr M S Khanniche is a Charted Engineer and has been a consultant for some companies. He has been invited as an expert witness in some industrial cases. He carried out some industrial work on power quality issues; he developed the interface software for the power harmonic analysers including flicker effects. From 1986-89 he was a consultant and retainer for Wood Group for the design and Development of UPS systems.

He served as a referee for the International Journal of Control Applications, IEEE transactions on Industrial applications, the IEE Journal of Electric Power and the IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical machines, Power Electronics and Drives. He is currently the co-editor of the International Journal of Electrical Systems.

Recent industrial projects:

• Design and development of low voltage high current synchronous buck dc-dc converters funded by Siliconix Vichay Group.
• Thermal simulation of the 45kW Power converter for the Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle. "SprintCar" feasibility study carried out by a consortium of 4 Universities, led by Oxford University, EPSRC, Foresight Vehicle Programme, Faraday Advance, TWI, Mira and Knibb Consultants; Dr M S Khanniche led the Electrical Sub-Group.
• Networking in Renewable Energy Research. Partners are Swansea, Cardiff, Bangor and Glamorgan Universities, funded by Welsh Assembly Government.
• Sustainable Energy Systems Research Explored funded by the Welsh Development Agency and EPSRC; the partners are Swansea University, Cardiff University and Glamorgan University.

For further details go to Dr M S Khannich personal web page: http://eepower.swan.ac.uk