Biography:
 
Received the M.S., Ph.D. and Dr. Sci. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics (ICIE), Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, in 1968, 1972, and 1981, respectively. From 1987 to 2008, he was Director of ICIE. Since 2003 he has been also Head of the Centre of Excellence on Power Electronics Intelligent Control for Energy Conservation – PELINCEC at ICIE. He is the author or co-author of over 350 technical papers and reports, as well as 13 books and textbooks. He co-authored (with H. Tunia) Automatic Control of Converter-Fed Drives (Elsevier, 1994) and co-edited (with R. Krishnan and F. Blaabjerg) and co-authored the compendium Control in Power Electronics (Academic Press, 2002).  Dr. Kazmierkowski was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate degree from Aalborg University in 2004 and from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France in 2010. In 2005 he received the Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and in 2007 SIEMENS Research Award in Poland. In 2007 he has been elected as Corresponding Member of Polish Academy of Science. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS (2004-2006). Currently, he is Dean of Technical Science Department, Polish Academy of Science.