Lucas Nahidmobarakeh earned his M.S. in electrical engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Électricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM) in 2021. He then completed a six-month internship at Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) as an electrical and safety engineer in the national power grid. Wanting to bridge technology and business, he pursued an M.Sc. in marketing of innovation products at ICN Business School, graduating in 2022. After this intensive one-year program, he joined Mobiskill, a tech recruitment firm, where he worked five months as an intern and eight months as a business developer, tech recruiter, and sales professional. Lucas began his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in September 2023 under the supervision of Dr. Ali Emadi at the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC). His research focuses on electric mobility, and he also collaborates with the Stellantis power electronics team.
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Lucas’s passion for engineering began at a young age. Visits to laboratories in France, Canada, and the United States inspired him and confirmed his desire to pursue this field. He began his formal studies in 2016 at Polytech Nancy, specializing in fault detection. However, with a desire to expand his engineering acumen, he decided to spend a year abroad at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, studying aerospace and automotive engineering.
Lucas completed his master’s degree in electrical engineering at ENSEM Nancy, in 2021. His research focused on multiphase motor control. He was also active in his school’s Junior Enterprise as a business developer. During this time, he completed a six-month internship at Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) as an engineer in the electric grid sector.
To expand his knowledge beyond engineering, Lucas pursued an M.Sc. in marketing of innovation at ICN Business School. One of his projects involved designing a product that did not yet exist, but could change everyday habits. That challenge sparked his interest in autonomous vehicles and became the subject of his final master’s project, completed in 2022.
After graduating, he joined Mobiskill, a tech recruitment firm. He first worked as a five-month intern, then as a tech recruiter, business developer, and sales professional. The experience helped him strengthen his communication and negotiation skills and understand the role of recruitment in technology-focused companies. Still, working closely with engineers made him realize how much he missed the technical side of the field.
This led him back to engineering and into research. In September 2023, he began his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at McMaster University, under the supervision of Dr. Ali Emadi, at the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC). His current research focuses on applying machine learning to powertrain and energy storage systems for autonomous and electric vehicles.
