Farzad Tahami (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1993 and 2003, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1991 to 2004, he was with Research and Development Department, Jovain Electrical Machines Corporation, Iran. In 2004, he joined the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His current research interests include electric motor drives, modeling and control of power electronic converters, soft switching, resonant converters, high-frequency power conversion, and wireless power transfer. Since 2007, he has been the Chairperson of the Technical Committee of Rotating Machinery and the Iranian National Electrotechnical Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Education Committee of the Power Electronics Society of Iran.