Haitham Abu-Rub's research contributions, as well as his on-going efforts/investigations in the area of Smart Grid, AC drives, and power electronics, can be classified into the following topics:
Control of electric machines; eg. vector control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, model predictive control
Power electronic converters, two-level and multilevel, matrix converter, ZSI
Artificial Intelligence in machines and power electronics control, eg. fuzzy logic, neural networks
Renewable energy conversion for PV and wind systems, maximum power point tracking
Condition monitoring and fault detection in electrical machines and drives