Prof. Arif I. Sarwat

Dr. Arif I. Sarwat is an Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the FPL-FIU Solar Research Facility, Florida International University. He has authored/co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and multiple patents. He is the Principal Investigator of the state-of-the-art grid-connected 3 MW/9 MWh AI-based renewable microgrid project funded by FPL. He has multiple funded projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Industry and the Department of Energy and Industry. His research interests include smart grids, electric vehicles, high penetration renewable systems, storage, and battery management systems, grid resiliency, large-scale data analysis, artificial intelligence, advanced metering infrastructure, smart city infrastructure, cybersecurity. He is the author/co-author of a publication that won the Best Paper Award at the Resilience Week in 2017, a technical article that won both the Best Paper Award in 2016 and the Most Cited Paper Award in 2018 from Springer’s Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He was a recipient of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Creative Activities in 2016, the College of Engineering and Computing Worlds Ahead Performance in 2016, and the FIU TOP Scholar Award in 2015, 2019, and 2023. Since 2012, he has been the Chair of the IEEE Miami Section VT and Communication. He is an Associate Editor of the ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE TRANSACTIONS.