A full professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Decentralized Sustainable Electricity Grids for Smart Communities at Laval University. Dr. Kamwa was previously a researcher at Hydro-Québec's Research Institute (IREQ), where for three decades, he specialized in the dynamic performance and control of power systems from a utility perspective. Prior to his retirement from Hydro-Quebec, he was successively, Chief scientist for the Smart grid Innovation Program, Acting Scientific Director and Head of Power system and Mathematics, responsible for the Hydro-Quebec Network Simulation Centre. He was an Adjunct Associate professor at McGill University and Laval University (1991-2020) and the Product Owner and Developer of three widely used power systems simulation tools, namely EMTP, SimpowerSystems and Hypersim, commercialized by EMP-Alliance, Mathworks and OPAL-RT, respectively.
The 2013 IEEE PES Distinguished Service Award recognized his sustained leadership on the IEEE power system dynamic performance as AdCom Member for 15years and chair of the PES stability subcommittee. In parallel, he was the Treasurer and Standard Coordinator of the IEEE Electric Machinery Committee from 2006 to 2021, chair of IEEE Std 1110-2019, vice-chair of IEEE Std 115-2019 and co-chair of IEEE Std 115-2009.
Dr. Kamwa received a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from Laval University. He became a 2005 IEEE Fellow for "contributions to synchronous machines identification and innovations in power grid control" and was inducted as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2015. He is both the 2019 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Technical Field Award , “For sustained leadership in the development of standards for electrical machines”, and the 2019 Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award, “For contributions in enhancing power grid performance by novel measurement devices, identification techniques, and stability control systems”. Listed in the top 2% scientists by Stanford university, he has authored papers in the top 1% most cited worldwide, leading to 4 IEEE PES best paper prize awards (1998, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2022), and 3 IEEE PES outstanding WG awards (1998, 2006, 2011, 2013). He was Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Power Syst., and IEEE Power Syst. Letters (2006-2017 and 2020-2022), EiC of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2012-2022), and was named Editor of the year 2020 by the Int. Journal on Electrical Power & Energy Systems (2015-2021). He is currently the EiC of the IEEE Power and Energy Magazine.
