Professor Osama Mohammed is a distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the School of Electrical, Computer, and Enterprise Engineering. He is also the Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory with its Smart Grid Testbed Facility. He was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, 2016-2023. 

Professor Mohammed is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society. He received the Prestigious Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2010. Professor Mohammed has published nearly 900 journals and refereed conference articles. He holds more than 20 patents in his research areas. He has also published a book and several book chapters. 

His research interests include renewable energy utilization, power systems, smart grids, and wide-area network applications. He is also interested in Electric machines and Drives, Fault-tolerant designs, diagnostics, and intelligent systems applications. He is interested in transportation electrification, shipboard power systems, and Lunar Habitat energy infrastructure. He is also interested in power electronics for integrated motor drives and DC distribution systems for renewable energy. He also has an interest in computational electromagnetics. Dr. Mohammed has successfully obtained many research contracts and grants from industries and Federal government agencies and has current active research programs in several areas. 

He has been general chair and Technical Program Chair of more than 12 major IEEE international conferences, including IEEE/ISAP, IEEE/IEMDC, IEEE/CEFC, and COMPUMAG. He has been an editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.