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, 64 refereed journals papers, and over 235 refereed international conference proceeding papers. He has attracted in excess US $6.5 Million in competitive research funding from external funding agencies in the last six years.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy is a recipient of several awards including a 2007 US Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award, a 2004 NSF CAREER Award, the 2008 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Educator 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 (South Africa) Young Achievers Award, the 2004 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2003 International Neural Network Society (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 Missouri S&T Teaching Commendation Award, a 2006 Missouri S&T School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and a 2008, 2007 and 2005 Missouri S&T Faculty Excellence Award.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy has been involved in the leadership and organization of many conferences including the General Chair of the 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (St. Louis, USA), the Program Chair of 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Atlanta, USA), the Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Portland, USA), the Chair of the 2007 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Sensor Networks (Melbourne, Australia) and the Program Co-Chair of the 2004 International Conference on Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (Chennai, India). He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Working Group on Intelligent Control Systems, the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Task Force on Power Systems Applications, the Secretary of the IEEE PES Intelligent Systems Subcommittee, Vice-Chair of the IEEE PES Students Subcommittee and the Chapter Chairs of IEEE CIS and IEEE Industry Applications Society St. Louis Chapters. He was founding Chair of IEEE CIS St. Louis Chapter. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks from 2004 to 2007 and for the IEEE Transactions on Measurements and Instrumentation in 2007. He was a Guest-Editor of the Neural Networks journal of June/July issue of 2003.

Dr. Venayagamoorthy is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK and the South African Institute of Electrical Engineering. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and International Neural Network Society, and a Member of the American Society for Engineering Education. He is also a Member of Board of Governors of the INNS. He is listed in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 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.