Hadi Y. Kanaan received the diploma in electromechanical engineering from Saint-Joseph University of Beirut (USJ), the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ecole de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Montreal, Canada, the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France, in 1991, 2002 2009 respectively. He is currently a Full-Professor, Head of the Department of Graduate Studies at Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB) Director of the Doctoral School of Sciences, Engineering Technology at USJ, which he joined in 2001. He is also an Adjunct Professor at ETS, Canada, since 2021, associate member of the Canada Research Chair in Energy Conversion Power Electronics since 2001. His research interests concern modeling and control of switch-mode converters, modern rectifiers, power factor correction, active power filters, and grid-connectivity of renewable energy systems. He is an author of 1 book, 3 book chapters, 1 patent and more than 275 technical papers published in international journals and conferences. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions Industrial Electronics, and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics on Industrial Electronics (JESTIE). He is an AdCom member-at-large of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), chair of the IEEE Lebanon Section, and member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), the IEEE Education Society, and the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal Committee. He is the recipient of the 2016 CNRS-L Research Excellence Award and the 2023 IEEE-IES Bimal Bose for his contribution to modeling and control of power electronics converters for power quality and renewable energy applications. He is member of the Order of Engineers and Architects in Beirut since 1992.