Prof. Claudio Cañizares has been elected Fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE) for his outstanding contributions in the field of electrical engineering science and technology. Founded in 1934 in Shanghai, the CSEE's members include over 120,000 individual engineers and over 1000 organizations.

Professor Cañizares is a University Professor of Electrical and computer engineering, Hydro One Endowed Chair, and the Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE). His research activities focus on the study of stability, control, optimization, modeling, simulation, and computational issues in bulk power systems, microgrids, and energy systems in the context of competitive energy markets and smart grids. 

Professor Cañizares is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.