Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy (S’91–M’97–SM’02) received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronics engineering from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria, in 1994, and the M.Sc.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He was a Senior Lecturer with the Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, prior to joining the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST), Rolla, USA in 2002. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at MST. He was a Visiting Researcher with ABB Corporate Research, Sweden, in 2007. His research interests are the development and applications of computational intelligence for real-world applications, including power systems stability and control, FACTS devices, power electronics, alternative sources of energy, sensor networks, collective robotic search, signal processing, and evolvable hardware. He has published 2 edited books, 5 book chapters, 54 refereed journals papers, and over 200 refereed international conference proceeding papers. He has attracted in excess US $4 Million in competitive research funding from external funding agencies.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy was an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS (from 2004 to 2007) and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT (2007). He is a Senior Member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE). He is also a member of the International Neural Network Society (INNS); The Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K.; and the American Society for Engineering Education. He is currently the IEEE St. Louis Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) and IAS Chapter Chairs, the Chair of the Working Group on Intelligent Control Systems, the Secretary of the Intelligent Systems subcommittee, and the Vice-Chair of the Student Meeting Activities subcommittee of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, and the Chair of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Power System Applications. He has organized and chaired several panels, invited and regular sessions, and tutorials at international conferences and workshops.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy was a recipient of the 2007 US Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award, the 2004 NSF CAREER Award, the 2006 IEEE Power Engineering Society Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2006 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Section Member Award, the 2005 IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Outstanding Young Member Award, the 2005 SAIEE Young Achievers Award, the 2004 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2003 INNS Young Investigator Award, the 2001 IEEE CIS Walter Karplus Summer Research Award, five prize papers from the IEEE IAS and IEEE CIS, a 2007 MST Teaching Commendation Award, a 2006 MST School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and a 2007/2005 MST Faculty Excellence Award. He is listed in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Who’s Who in America, 2008 edition of Who’s Who in the World and 2008 edition of Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.