Sajjad Mohammadi
Contact
Incoming Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
- sajjad6@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Electric Machines Power Magnetics Power Electronics Motor Drives Control Systems Electric Vehicles Renewable Energies
About
Sajjad Mohammadi is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the B.S. degree from Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah, Iran, in 2011, and the M.S. degree from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, in 2014, all in electrical engineering. He also received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
Previously, he was with Apple Inc., and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He is a coauthor of the textbook Electromagnetic Analysis of Electric Machines: First Principles, Modeling, and Design (Wiley–IEEE Press, 2025). His research interests include electromechanical energy conversion, electric machines, power magnetics, and power electronic drives. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2022 George M. Sprowls Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, Best M.Sc. Thesis Awards, and awards in robotics and Chem-E-Car competitions.