Presenter

Michel A. Kinsy received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. In his doctoral work, he was one of the first to develop algorithms and hardware techniques to emulate and control large-scale power systems at the microsecond resolution. This work has been continued by the MIT spin-off, Typhoon HIL, Inc. Michel is an MIT Presidential Fellow and an Inaugural Skip Ellis Career Award recipient. Before joining the TAMU faculty, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University (BU). Prior to BU, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Systems at the University of Oregon, where he directed the Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems (CAES) Laboratory. From 2013 to 2014, Michel was a member of the Technical Staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.