Mo-Yuen Chow earned his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1982); and Cornell University (M. Eng., 1983; Ph.D., 1987). Upon completion of his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Chow joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor in 1993, and a Professor since 1999. He worked in U.S. Army, TACOM TARDEC Division as a Senior Research Scientist during the summer of 2003. He spent his sabbatical leave as a Visiting Scientist in 1995 in ABB Automated Distribution Division.
    Dr. Chow‘s core technology is mechatronics, control, diagnosis and computational intelligence. Dr. Chow has been applying his core technology to areas including motor systems, power distribution systems, network-based distributed control systems, and unmanned vehicles. He has served as a Principal Investigator in several projects supported by the National Science Foundation, BD Technologies, Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, Nortel Company, Electric Power Research Institute, Duke Power Company, ABB Company, Electric Power Research Center, NASA, and Army.
    Dr. Chow has established the Advanced Diagnosis, Automation and Control Laboratory at NC State University. He has published one book, five book chapters, and over one hundred journal and conference articles related to his research work. He is the Vice President for Publication of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is the General Chair of IEEE IECON05. Dr. Chow served as a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Special Issue on Distributed Network-Based Control Systems and Applications in 2003, for the Special Issue on Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis (Vol. 47, no. 5, 2000), and for the Special Issue on Application of Intelligent Systems to Industrial Electronics (Vol. 40, no.2, 1993). He has received the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, and the IEEE Region 3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. Dr. Chow was selected as a Senior Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2003. He has been elected as an IEEE Fellow (2007).

Last Update: December 5, 2006 .