Ali Abur is currently
a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Northeastern University, Boston. He
obtained his B.S. degree from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
from The Ohio State University all in Electrical Engineering. After receiving
his PhD degree, he joined Texas A&M University and worked a Professor in
the Electrical Engineering Department until November 2005. Then, he was
appointed as a Professor and Chair of the Electrical Computer Engineering
Department at Northeastern University, Boston. His research and educational
activities have been in the areas of electric power systems modeling, state
estimation, detection and identification of errors in
the network model and measurements, fault location and electromagnetic
transients modeling and simulations. He completed close to 50 projects
sponsored by Federal or State Agencies as well as energy
industry. He was the Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems between 1999-2011 and also served as a guest editor for special issues. He organized
and co-chaired 2011 North American Power Symposium held in Boston. He was elected a
Fellow of the IEEE for his work on power system state estimation in 2003 and was
the recipient of 2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Power
Engineering Educator Award and 2025 IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System EngineeringAward..He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He published the book
“Power System State Estimation” with his co-author in 2004.