Giacomo Scelba (S’04-GS’05-M’07-SM’17) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), University of Catania. His current research interests include ac drive control technologies, fault-tolerant motor drives, modeling and control of power converters, and advanced technologies for power electronics applications. His research activities have also been carried out by partnerships with industries. He is a Co-Principal Investigator of a collaborative research agreement with Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy, for research in the field of wide-bandgap-semiconductor-based drives. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed and refereed technical publications and holds one U.S. patent. He is responsible of national and international research projects. He served on the organization of several IEEE conferences, including Topic Chair for ECCE in the years 2013-2024, Session Chair for IEEE EPE 2019 ECCE Europe, Vice Chair for ECCE 2022, Track Chair at ICEM 2024 and Topic Chair for Electrical Machines and Drive Systems at ECCE EUROPE 2024.

He is a Member of the IEEE Power Electronics Societies, the IEEE Industry Applications, the IEEE Industrial Electronics, the IEEE IAS Industrial Drives Committee, the IAS Electric Machines Committee, the IAS Industrial Power Converters Committee, the PELS Technical Committee on Motor Drives and Actuators and the IES Electrical Machines Committee. He was a recipient of the 2014 First Prize Paper Award and the 2016 Third Prize Paper Award, both from the IAS Industrial Drives Committee, and the 2018 Third Prize Paper Award from the IES Electrical Machine Technical Committee. He was a recipient of 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award from IEEE Power Electronics Society. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and recently is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.