George G. Karady (SM'70 – F'78) received his MS and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest. He was appointed as Salt River Chair Professor at ASU in 1986. Previously, he was with EBASCO Services where he served as chief consulting electrical engineer, manager of electrical systems and chief engineer of computer technology. He was electrical task supervisor for the Tokomak Fusion Test reactor project in Princeton. He graduated 19 Ph.D and 40 MS students. Dr. Karady has been an IEEE fellow since 1978. He published a book and has more than 120 journal and 180 conference publications.  He also received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Budapest in 1996.

Dr. Karady brings to the Power Group at ASU more than 30 years of professional experience from industries and educational institutes in different parts of the world.