Dr. Issa Batarseh is a professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He earned his B.S., in Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1983, 1985 and 1990, respectively.
Dr. Batarseh was a visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University Calumet from 1989 to 1990 before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCF in 1991. His major research interest is in power electronics, developing high frequency energy conversion systems to improve power density, efficiency and performance. The research includes the analysis and design of high frequency solar and wind energy conversion topologies and power factor correction techniques.

He has published more than 60 refereed journals and 300 conference papers in addition to 14 U.S. patents. He published a textbook entitled "Power Electronic Circuits" with John Wiley in 2003. He is a registered professional engineer in Florida and a Fellow Member of IEEE, and Fellow Member of IEE. He has served as a Chairman for IEEE PESC’07 conference and was the Chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Chapter, and the IEEE Orlando Section.