Dr. Abdul Rahiman Beig earned his B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka Suratkal, India, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Beig was with M/S Kirloskar Electric Company, Ltd, Mysore, India, as a R&D Engineer with the design team of BLDC Drive, which received the Best Indigenous Product Design Award by IEEMA, New Delhi, India .He later joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, NITK Suratkal.
Dr. Beig is currently working as an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Khalifa University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Transportation Electrification.聽 Previously he has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Application.聽 He is the faculty in charge of Power Electronics and Sustainable Energy (PEASE) Research Laboratory under Advanced Power and Energy Center (APEC) at Khalifa University. Currently, he is leading the research theme 鈥淭ransportation Electrification鈥� under APEC. His current research focus is on advanced drive train for electric vehicles, fault tolerant operation in EVs, wireless power transfer, high gain bidirectional DC to DC converters and auto tuning of grid connected converters,聽 Dr. Beig has received the Khalifa University Best in Teaching Award in 2010 and the Khalifa University Research Award in 2013.聽
Dr. Beig has successfully completed industry-sponsored projects on mitigation of the power quality problems in oil rigs. He has also completed other research projects on active filters for distorted voltage conditions and improved PWM techniques for high power drives. Dr. Beig has excellent industrial experience, especially in the design of inverters, DSP/FPGA based embedded controllers, and development of control algorithms for electric drives.
