Dr. Emadi is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He has been named the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year 2003 (single international award) by virtue of his outstanding contributions to hybrid electric vehicle conversion by the Electrical Engineering Honor Society. He also received the 2005 Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. In 2005, he was selected as the Best Professor of the Year by the students at IIT. Dr. Emadi is the recipient of the 2002 University Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT as well as the 2004 Sigma Xi/IIT Award for Excellence in University Research. He directed a team of students to design and build a novel motor drive, which won the First Place Overall Award of the 2003 IEEE/DOE/DOD International Future Energy Challenge for Motor Competition.
Dr. Emadi is the principal author/co-author of over 200 journal and conference papers as well as several books including Vehicular Electric Power Systems: Land, Sea, Air, and Space Vehicles (Marcel Dekker, 2003), Energy Efficient Electric Motors (Marcel Dekker, 2004), and Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Active Filters (CRC Press, 2004). He is also the co-author of Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory, and Design (CRC Press, 2004). Dr. Emadi is also the editor of the Handbook of Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives (Marcel Dekker, 2005).
Dr. Emadi was the General Chair of the 1st IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC'05), which was co-located under his chairmanship with the SAE International Future Transportation Technology Conference. He is currently the Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Future Energy Challenge. He is also the Chair of the Technical Committee on Transportation Power Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics Society. In addition, he is the Chair of the Vehicular Power Electronics and Drives Technical Sub-Committee, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
Dr. Emadi is the Editor (North America) of the International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. He has been the Guest Editor-in-Chief of the Special Issue on Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He has also been the Guest Editor of the Special Section on Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is currently the Guest Editor of the Special Section on Automotive Electronics and Electrical Drives, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.