Prof. Dr. David A. Lowther
McGill University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Montreal, QC, Canada
David Lowther received his Ph.D. degree in 1973 from Brighton Polytechnic in the United Kingdom before moving to Imperial College, London where he spent 6 years in a post-doctoral position with Dr. C.J.Carpenter working on modeling electrical machines. In 1979 he moved to McGill University in Montreal, Canada as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and was promoted to Full Professor in 1986 and was Chair for the Department from 1998 to 2006. His research relates to the design and analysis of low frequency electromagnetic devices, including applications of artificial intelligence and supervises the electrical machines design group within the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory at McGill. In 1978, he co-founded Infolytica Corporation which developed computer aided design tools for low frequency systems. The company was acquired by Siemens DISW in 2017 and he was a Technical Director in Technology and Innovation at Siemens until September 2025. He has been involved in developing machine learning systems for electrical machine design with Siemens. He is currently the President of the International Compumag Society and is a member of several conference organizing committees. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the joint German-Austrian project to develop a computational electrical machines laboratory (CREATOR). He has published over 400 conference and journal papers and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.